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ArcLogistics plug-in architecture allows for industry
and customer-specific customizations. IE Logistics is the leader in
the creation of plug-ins for AL. Plug-ins appear
seamlessly as new menu options and toolbar buttons within the
AL interface once installed. Plug-ins perform desired
edits and provide desired information.
Plug-ins available from IE: (***denotes availability for
ArcLogistics 9)
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IE BEVERAGE
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Overview: Provides additional solution
possibilities for industries treating time windows as hard
(utilizing two time windows within AL). The availability
of a 2nd time window is useful for preventing deliveries to
locations at their peak times of operations such as restaurants
and warehouses that do not desire deliveries during lunch times.
However, conflicts may arise with this increased functionality.
Once time windows are treated as hard, AL prevents the end-user
from altering the importance of meeting time windows in relation
to the cost of the routing solution. The importance
rating, between 1 and 10, becomes locked and the orders not
fitting in either time window are not routed. Currently,
the only way to perform multiple 'cost and time' scenarios after
the initial route build is to unassign orders manually and then
begin data manipulation. With this plug-in, you will be
able to perform "what-if scenarios" with multiple
route solutions without having to unassign routed orders.
Enabling real-time comparison of each of the routing solution
created
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IE BOOKEND ROUTES
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Overview: ArcLogistics builds routes from a
pre-determined start and end locations such as a
warehouse. Often, the first and last orders accomplished
on a route are at a distance from this start/end location, or
'stem'. If your organization pays mileage to your drivers
it is undesirable to report and to pay for the 'lost' mileage
from the theoretical start/end locations to your real-world
customer points. This tool 'bookends' the route by editing
routes that have already been generated. The first and
last order for each route will automatically be made into the
start and end locations for that route thereby saving overall
mileage distance by eliminating the stem distances.
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IE CUSTOM SEQUENCE
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Overview: This plug-in is used to automatically
create routes within AL that follow the guidelines of your
predetermined route and sequence information. Each order
within the source file contains its preferred route and its
preferred sequence within that route. This tool will then
perform the routing of these orders in that exact route and
sequence in mere minutes. This plug-in saves a great deal
of time and ensures your current solutions are accurately
represented when creating new optimized routing models for comparison
and benchmarking analysis.
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IE CUSTOMERS
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Overview: The plug-in performs numerous pre-process
edits for AL orders prior to their introduction to the AL
solver. The tool is necessary for point-to-point routing
scenarios such as courier, paratransit, armored car and so
forth. In these industries, it is common that several
edits need considered prior to routing such as matched pairs
creation, logical total service times must be generated for
'bunched' pick-ups or drop-offs, ride times need monitored and
regulated, and time windows need calculated from drop-off time
window information. Additional features include the
ability to dynamically create logical service times based on
capacity information and to store the geocoded x/y for customers
that are consistently imported as ungeocoded.
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IE DYNAMIC LOCATIONS
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Overview: This plug-in allows users to easily
create locations from existing orders within ArcLogistics.
Each newly created location is able to be designated as being a
start or end location for existing routes. This tool is of
tremendous benefit to 'LTL' companies because with several
clicks the router is able to dynamically create logical morning
and afternoon routing folders. In this scenario, the
morning folder will generally send drivers outwards and the
dynamically created afternoon folder will serve as a 'return to
base' routing solution which automatically swaps the start and
end locations found within the morning routing folder.
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IE EDIT ROUTES
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Overview: This plug-in allows you to easily edit
selected routes' properties even if they possess routed stops.
After edits are entered the plug-in will then unassign all
orders, implement the edits and reassign all orders to the same
route. Arrive times are updated automatically. An
example of this tool's use is to remove lunchtimes from five
routes that have been assigned less than eight hours of
work. Out-of-the-box AL would require each of the five
routes to be unassigned, edited and assigned manually, which is
not practical.
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IE EDIT STOPS
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Overview: This plug-in allows you to easily edit
selected orders' properties even if they are currently routed.
After edits are entered the plug-in will then unassign all
orders, implement the edits and reassign all orders to the same
route. Examples of edits that can be performed are the
editing of time windows and the editing of service times.
Orders can be edited along with their on-the-way-stops which
makes this plug-in very helpful for point-to-point type routing.
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IE EXPORT
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Overview: This plug-in allows for exporting of
ArcLogistics solutions in a specific user-defined data
format. The ability to create customized export formats
allows for easier integration with existing data houses such as
AS/400, MAS-90, Oracle, SQL Server and others. Added
functionality includes the ability to create and save multiple
export profiles, to export additional fields not offered within
the ArcLogistics default export, the ability to suppress
rows of chosen stop types, to select specific columns for
export, to determine the order of columns to be exported, the
ability to rename column headings, and the ability to perform
numeric formatting.
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IE FREQUENCY
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Overview: This plug-in is engineered for
organizations that are looking to optimize static routes such
as courier service and beverage distribution companies.
These companies' customers commonly require being serviced only
on certain day of the week frequencies such as Monday, Wednesday
and Friday. This tool automatically converts your customer
frequency data into the AL-routable equivalent of a routing
folder containing a day's worth of routing information.
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IE MATCHED PAIRS
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Overview: This plug-in allows for easy creation of
dynamic locations to serve as on-the-way pickups for related
order pairs. Matched pairs are optimal for operations such
as courier, paratransit and armored car. These industries
require a specific pickup to be matched with a specific delivery
while maintaining the time window considerations for both
points. If a delivery and its respective pickup are not
directly associated (as is the case without this plug-in) there
is the likely possibility that ArcLogistics Route's solver will
assign the pickup and delivery to different routes in an attempt
to optimize the overall solution. This plug-in not only prevents
the separation of the associated pair but also ensures that the
pickup occurs prior to the delivery.
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IE ON DEMAND
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Overview: This plug-in allows for the assignment of
additional orders onto existing routes. The tool
recognizes the current system time to uphold the rule of
assigning the order at the current system time or later.
Such a scenario is prevalent with industries such as the courier
industry that require such 'hotshot' deliveries to be accommodated
within existing static routes during the course of the
workday. The solver not only takes into account the
current system time, but also takes into account the
availability of each route in terms of geographic proximity as
well as its available wait time during the order's time window
in order to determine the best route to take the order.
This plug-in's efficiency gain reduces the cost and miles per
order and increases the utilization of the fleet in
general.
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IE OVERLAY ROUTES
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Overview: This plug-in allows for the joining of
multiple routing folders into a dynamically created routing
folder. This is often desired for viewing historic data
for trends as well as for viewing separate business divisions'
(such as sales force and delivery drivers) routes on a single
map. For instance, route 'A' may have five routes built in
five individual routing folders, each representing a single
route for day Monday through Friday. This plug-in allows
for all five workdays to be 'over-layed' in a single routing
folder so that each day's routes can be directly compared and
viewed along with each of the other days.
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IE REVERSE ROUTES
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Overview: This plug-in allows for mirrored
sequencing of orders within a route. It essentially flips
the sequence of the entire route to make the original first
order the last order and vice versa. The application of
such a reversal can be helpful to allow routes to traverse the
street network against the direction of traffic during rush
hour. It can also be used in situations where it is
desirable to perform the larger number of stops in the morning
to lessen the weight of the truck for afternoon operations.
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IE STREET EDITOR
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Overview: This plug-in allows for the editing of
street network speed limits. Such edits allow for more
accurate real-world arrive times and therefore more realistic
overall route generation. The interface allows the user to
select any geographic area for editing. The user can then
enter either MPH/KmPH values for speeds or can speed or slow
segments by a percentage value. The four major road
classifications as set forth by the Federal Functional
Classifications System (CFCC) are utilized to allow you the
power to edit superhighways, major highways, local highways and
local roads independently of one another. Typical
applications of the product include the slowing of downtown
areas, the effective blocking of toll roads, and the avoidance
of construction areas.
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IE TOTAL
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Overview: This plug-in provides ArcLogistics
capacity data in a more concise and convenient manner than
normally available. Orders are generally selected from the MapView due to their geographic proximity prior to selecting
this plug-in. The tool then displays complete capacity
data including counts, sums and averages for the selected
orders.
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