Industry Applications - Logistics, Material Management and Transportation

High fuel costs, increasing competition and rising custom demands for flexibility and visibility has created challenges for the existing IT infrastructure of transportation companies. Costs must be managed with the best possible routing, taking into account environmental, traffic, fuel price, and other issues on each possible route and that planning must be dynamic and re-planning must be continuous even during execution. Less than full loads must be optimized. And all of this must be done without scrapping your existing IT investments. What is needed is an intelligent a layer of intelligence to put you in control of your organization.

Imagine

ActiveEdge creates a world where efficient routing is not a chore, but is automatic and optimized. Not only are plans generated automatically, but re-planning is continuous to cover all contingencies. Locations of materials and vehicles, environmental conditions and other variables are continuously available to you and your customers in a Common Operating Picture. Optimization of fuel location, cost and loading can be managed automatically.

Active Edge Transportation and Shipping Solutions

Solutions built with ActiveEdge help provide more visibility with integrated, comprehensive and local dynamic views of the distribution network, enable more effective management of local distribution operations, and provide robust and secure distributed collaboration and execution. Our unique situational awareness and representation layer gives companies the ability to collaborate and partner effectively with supporting distribution agencies. We can create an accurate, global, and understandable operational picture of the current transportation situation as well as provide advanced event management, execution monitoring, and collaborative decision support. Users can monitor activities during execution and dynamically re-plan in the face of external changes or modified operational requirements. Using our ActiveEdge RFID middleware, we can provide such functionality as ONS RPC/UID lookup, track & trace, inventory management, and route / manifest matching against execution time data. Solution List

Solution List

• Agent based traffic control
• Route optimization
• Less than full-load optimization
• Autonomy, cooperation and de-confliction
• Common operational picture and situational awareness
• Vehicle prognostics and autonomy
• Supply chain visibility and optimization