ArcLogistics Route

If fleet management is part of your business operation, save money and improve your fleet efficiency with ArcLogistics Route.

ArcLogistics Route software is a complete solution for complex routing and scheduling problems. Create dynamic routes and schedules to minimize costs and improve customer service using ArcLogistics Route. From a small fleet operation to a large multi user environment, ArcLogistics Route provides a quick and significant return on investment.

Routing and Scheduling Solutions on Your Desktop

ArcLogistics Route is a complete out-of-the-box solution for complex routing and scheduling problems. ArcLogistics Route can be either a stand alone end user application or a thin client multiuser application. Use ArcLogistics Route to determine which vehicle should serve each customer location and the best stop sequence to accommodate your customers' time windows while minimizing your travel time. Select your service area from the included high-quality street database of the United States and start finding accurate customer locations and building realistic routes the day you load ArcLogistics Route.

Intelligent Routing Made Easy

You don't have to be a computer wizard to use ArcLogistics Route. Simply type your customers' orders, or import them from your existing database, and let ArcLogistics Route geocode and map your customers' locations, assign customers to vehicles, and determine optimal stop sequences. ArcLogistics Route builds routes based on actual network drive times--not straight-line distances; vehicle characteristics such as start and end locations, renewal points for reloading or unloading, capacity restrictions, and specialty of vehicle or driver; and characteristics of custormer orders such as volume and weight of item, service time, requested time window, and order specialty. ArcLogistics Route also allows a second time window option for services, a grace period, and second-day routing. After solving your routing problem, ArcLogistics Route will export routes and schedules back to your database. Also, you can view and print detailed maps along with turn-by-turn driving directions.

Customized Solutions

You can tailor ArcLogistics Route to your organization's needs with driver/vehicle specialties, operating costs, and custom reports. The GDT Dynamap/Transportation Street Database that is included with ArcLogistics Route may be refreshed semiannually or annually. You can also connect to popular databases through the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard and directly to SAP R/3. Using Seagate Crystal Reports, ArcLogistics Route generates high-quality route summary reports, stop vicinity and route overview maps, street-level directions, and driver manifests.

Affordable Technology

Using ArcLogistics Route, you can realize savings of 10 to 30 percent in terms of mileage, overtime, and time spent routing. Increasing efficiency means that each vehicle can visit at least one additional customer location per day. This technology typically pays for itself in less than three months.

Features

ArcLogistics Route helps you manage your fleet efficiently and reduce your costs.
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• Includes high-quality data (GDT Dynamap/Transportation) for the entire United States from which delivery area is extracted
• Prompts you to set vehicle speeds over your street network
• Builds delivery routes based on actual network drive times, not straight-line distances
• Takes into account specialty of vehicles and drivers
• Imports customer orders from any Open Database Connectivity-Compliant database
• Geocodes customer addresses
• Outputs route summary reports, detailed and overview maps, street-level directions, driver manifests, and more.

Tech Specs

ArcLogistics Route operates under Windows 98, 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 3, Windows Me, and Windows XP.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is ArcLogistics Route?
A. ArcLogistics Route is a stand-alone end user application designed to solve vehicle routing problems, enabling users to create and manage a set of routes for their fleet of vehicles. This out-of-the-box desktop solution for vehicle routing and scheduling is the latest in the line of solutions-oriented software from ESRI designed to provide for the complete needs of a specific industry.

Q. What does ArcLogistics Route do?
A. ArcLogistics Route was developed to meet the needs of logistics professionals, which include the ability to geocode stops, optimize routes and schedules, and output maps, directions, and reports. With ArcLogistics Route, users can determine which vehicle should serve each delivery in such a way that time window violations are minimized, total travel time by fleet is minimized, and vehicles do not exceed their volume/weight capacity. Users can select their service area from the included high-quality street database of the United States, and start finding accurate customer locations and building realistic routes quickly and easily.

Q. Why is ArcLogistics Route important?
A. Logistics costs equal 10 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, with companies typically spending 10 to 15 percent of their sales on logistics routing and scheduling. Computer-based logistics can reduce costs from 10 to 40 percent, giving businesses a better way to reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve customer service.

Q. Who needs ArcLogistics Route?
A. Any organization that needs to find locations, assign stops to vehicles, and sequence stops considering such factors as time, cost, capacity, and productivity will truly benefit from ArcLogistics Route. Businesses in retail, manufacturing, delivery, food and beverage, utilities, telecommunications, home health care, shuttle service, public works, insurance, and many, many more industries can all save money and improve efficiency with ArcLogistics Route.

Q. Are training courses available for ArcLogistics Route?
A. ESRI is not currently offering training courses for ArcLogistics Route. However, check our training page for a list of authorized resellers who provide training for ArcLogistics Route.

Q. What does ArcLogistics Route include?
A. ArcLogistics Route includes the latest version of GDT Dynamap/Transportation U.S. street database, Seagate Crystal Reports (including Designer), a comprehensive user guide, online help, and a one-year technical support agreement.

Q. What is required to use ArcLogistics Route?
A. ArcLogistics Route operates on Windows 98, 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 3, Windows Me, and Windows XP. Recommended system requirements are an Intel Pentium II processor (minimum) with 64 MB RAM required (128 MB RAM recommended). Required clock speed is 266 MHz with 600 MHz recommended.