Road Net
Road Net
Omnitracs Roadnet
Transportation Suite
With Omnitracs Roadnet Transportation Suite, there’s a
smarter way to route your day.
Roadnet at a glance Make the most of your routes
This highly flexible routing and scheduling solution will This versatile enterprise or stand-alone solution gives
help you: your routers an effective, tactical routing tool to optimize
daily delivery and service operations in just minutes,
• Dramatically reduce miles driven, fuel spending, and
not hours. Omnitracs Roadnet offers you the ability to
driver overtime to ensure greater profitability
transform today’s orders into tomorrow’s routes, locking
• Measure driver performance on a daily basis with in the highest number of efficiencies to improve customer
clearly defined itineraries, manifests, maps, and service while reducing costs. In fact, Omnitracs Roadnet
directions typically delivers ROI within its first year of deployment,
with users consistently cutting their delivery costs by 10 to
• Maximize driver and equipment productivity while 20 percent.
following new government regulations
• Meet and exceed customer service expectations by Integrating Omnitracs Roadnet with your current system
quickly turning exceptions into opportunities is painless—it integrates with existing order entry and
host systems, as well as with all other Omnitracs Roadnet
• Assess available costs for greater savings by drilling Transportation Suite applications. Then, by tapping into
down to actual costs per stop, per mile, or per unit of its advanced algorithms and custom “street-level” routing
measurement passes, you can quickly generate any number of routing
assignments. It’s easy to account for whatever variables you
• Work smarter by investing fewer hours in your route
planning and more time in strategic forecasting determine, including road conditions, vehicle and driver
availabilities, time window requirements, start/close times,
• Capture daily reports and important historical data and maximum route duration. In doing so, Omnitracs
Roadnet allows you to maintain more consistent standards
It’s never the same road—in managing transportation for your daily operations, by providing your drivers and
operations, you live it, breathe it, and know it. Every day, staff with clear performance expectations for scheduling
you deal with a whole new set of challenges—each one and sequencing.
with the potential to throw off your stops in a thousand
different ways, driving up costs and driving down service. As a result, overages due to driver overtime and
So why not give yourself a competitive edge? For a excessive stop times instantly become a thing of the past.
growing number of leading transportation companies, Overall resource utilization increases. Customer service
every day starts with Omnitracs Roadnet. dramatically improves. In short, your operation delivers
more while driving less, every day.
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Just the information you need
Creating and monitoring benchmarks for your daily operations couldn’t be easier with Omnitracs
Roadnet. Choose from a broad selection of progress reports (or create your own) to track every aspect of
your business and the costs involved. Standard reporting features include:
• Driver Manifests, Maps, Directions, and Itineraries • Customer Delivery Cost Report
• Route Summary Statistics • Time Window Exception Report
• Off-Day Delivery Exception Report • Actual versus Planned Reports by Route and by Stop
• Resource Utilization Report
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Omnitracs Roadnet - Territory Planner™
This sophisticated, easy-to-use strategic solution can help you:
• Optimize all existing delivery, service, and sales routes • Explore “what-if” scenarios
• Reduce transportation costs by efficiently allocating • Plan for growth, holidays, and seasonal swings
resources • Create service policies based on volume of business
• Automate your strategic rerouting process, reducing time • Capture daily reports and vital historical data
and management involvement needed to complete the • Improve customer service, including exceptions
planning cycle • Maximize oversight and evaluation
• Balance capacities and workloads • Serve as a depot planning tool
Fixed routes? Today, they are anything but. Even the most ROI in just months.
predictable static routes can eat away at your company’s
Just enter all relevant information—customer and operational
profits over time through customer changes, backtracking,
details such as available drivers and vehicles, days, open/
and off-route stops. Pinpointing and fixing these leaks takes
close times, preferred time windows, volume, and customer
more than guesswork and sticky notes. But, where are you
locations—and Territory Planner’s analytical engine generates
going to find the time and the resources to manually reroute
an optimized territory solution, strategically designing each
an entire territory or region?
route and stop sequence to meet your customers’ scheduling
What you need is a reliable, powerful tool that can give needs. You can also explore strategic options for enhanced
you the ability to analyze, modify, and optimize your customer service and cost efficiencies through Territory
entire distribution, service, and sales operation from the Planner’s “what-if” scenario projections, assess your ability to
top down—based on your company’s unique criteria and manage expanded territories without expanding your fleet,
historical information. What you need is Omnitracs Roadnet and reconfigure your current territories and routes in advance
Territory Planner. to handle seasonal fluctuations. You can even determine the
actual cost of each delivery stop down to the penny. You’ll
An industry first. quickly see the positive impact to your bottom line as well.
Territory Planner is widely recognized as the premier strategic On average, deliver a return on investment in just six months
tool for planning, balancing, and managing route-sales, or less.
pre-sales, service, and standard route operations.
Always accountable.
As an enterprise or stand-alone software application, Territory
Planner’s robust framework and mapping network capabilities To keep you informed on all aspects of territory
provide the complete functionality you need to take on even management, Territory Planner offers complete accountability
the most complex rerouting analysis. Although it can function through a range of reports that cover every aspect of your
as a stand-alone solution, Territory Planner can share all of sales, service and distribution operations, including:
your customer information with other Omnitracs Roadnet • Territory Cost Report • Territory Exception Report
Transportation Suite applications without the need for • Territory Distance Report • Driver Itinerary
re-entering data. • Territory Summary Report
Before After
Territory Planner instantly analyzes and graphically maps any existing route overlaps that cause costly inefficiencies in your daily operations network.
Powerful algorithms deliver an optimized territory solution that avoids overlap and locks in savings.
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Omnitracs Roadnet
MobileCast®
Powerful but flexible, Omnitracs Roadnet MobileCast will help you:
• Track all vehicles in real time against their individual • Promote customer service by anticipating and avoiding
routing plans delivery delays through on-the-fly rerouting while
• Reduce costs due to excessive mileage, overtime and providing precise ETAs
deadhead miles • Improve communications among all members of your
• Improve driver accountability and efficiency by transportation team in the office and in the field
eliminating service delays and delivery error • Gather and centralize customized delivery data
• Manage by exception for new levels of dispatch • Build profitability through optimized transportation
productivity management
You’ve set up your distribution and service territories. You’ve In addition, dispatchers can:
optimized your routes. Still, how can you be sure that once
• Communicate directly with field resources for real-time
they are on the road, your drivers are focused on your
dispatch of new stops
plan? With MobileCast, you can. Created by Omnitracs
• Receive real-time updates on route status, including all
Roadnet Technologies, MobileCast offers your company a
details and variances
highly configurable mobile resource management solution,
• Capture actual stop arrival, departure, and service time
complete with tools, service, sales, and support—providing
information
value from day one.
• Receive proactive notification of service failures or late
deliveries
Now you see it.
• View vehicle space availability for backhauls
• View or print route and driver performance reports
With advanced mobile resource management capabilities,
• Automatically integrate operational data captured in the
MobileCast empowers your team by providing them with the
field back into the planning system—to create an even
tools they need to ensure the highest levels of productivity
more accurate plan in the future
and customer service. MobileCast lets you step outside the
• Disseminate projected and actual delivery information in
four walls of your dispatch location in real time to see where
real time to provide immediate updates
all of your vehicles actually are—and if they are following
their respective routing plans, unlike AVL (Automatic Vehicle
MobileCast ensures that dispatching can work more
Location) packages. Out in the field, MobileCast offers a
efficiently to enforce your plan throughout daily operations
range of flexible communication options for your drivers
that can be scaled to your present needs—and reconfigured
Driving excellence.
easily as your operations grow. With its open architecture,
MobileCast integrates with your current routing, scheduling,
Your field resources will welcome the addition of MobileCast
host systems or GPS as well as other modules of the
as a “no-hassle” tool to help boost performance and
Omnitracs Roadnet Transportation Suite.
productivity. With its real-time mobile communications
and GPS capabilities, MobileCast eliminates lost time
Manage by exception—really. due to unclear directions, routing detours, or customer
complications. In addition, you can choose from a wide range
For your office dispatch operations, MobileCast is the
of wireless devices that provide such critical capabilities as:
ideal solution to manage overload. With its “intelligent”
tracking overview (which can be set to your specifications), • Barcode scanning
MobileCast gives your dispatchers the ability to manage by • Line-item reconciliation
exception—that is, to see and respond only to those vehicles • Signature capture
that are off-plan. Exception reports can also be generated, • Picture text messaging
detailing all exceptions associated with a trip, including • Instant receipt of new delivery instructions and alerts
unplanned stops and route path deviations. • Directions to the next destination point from either the
previous stop or based on current vehicle location
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MobileCast® continued
Your field resources can take advantage of MobileCast’s powerful but flexible GPS-based communication options, including devices that
provide an electronic manifest showing each successive stop and related instructions. Upon arrival, your driver simply clicks the “arrive”
button to notify dispatch of his status before proceeding on his route.
With MobileCast, staying on top of your en route delivery operations couldn’t be easier. MobileCast lets you manage by exception by
monitoring the progress in real time, instantly letting you know if a particular driver is off-route and missing time windows. In addition, a
powerful mapping feature helps you compare individual route plans versus actual routes taken.
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Omnitracs Roadnet “Our number one priority is that our
drivers get home safely every night.
Telematics® With the implementation of Roadnet
Telematics, we’ve been able to see the
Reduce risk and secure savings with Omnitracs Roadnet drivers and their daily activities. Our
Telematics. This advanced, full-spectrum solution will help you:
speeding, idle time, and harsh braking
• Assess and improve driver behavior events have decreased as a result.”
• Reduce idling
• Track mileage precisely — Alex Holian, Executive Vice President of
Operations
• Monitor any off-plan event
The Chef’s Warehouse
• Eliminate downtime
Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics is a road-proven, GPS-based Monitor risk and promote safety.
telematics solution that has helped commercial fleets save
millions in operating costs, ranging from insurance claims Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics gives you powerful tools
to roadside assistance. Through GPS-based, onboard not only for monitoring risky driving behavior, but also for
monitoring technology, Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics helping drivers eliminate it. By controlling speed and limiting
tracks a critical spectrum of vehicle operating and usage after-hours use—these small changes can mean huge savings
for your business in avoiding injuries, vehicle damage and
parameters, such as miles driven, engine faults, idling time,
insurance claims.
seatbelt usage and much more. The result is a clear picture of
your fleet’s risk, productivity and maintenance status—and a • See the big picture: Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics lets
clear path toward improvement. you monitor a full spectrum of risk factors, including
speed, harsh braking and rapid acceleration, seatbelt
• Reduce fleet maintenance costs and optimize lease use, idle time, revving, stops per day, and after-hours
management use.
• Support cost-reduction initiatives by controlling fuel • Reduce liability and workers compensation claims:
Accident memory and event-based recording capabilities
consumption
let you recreate and verify at-fault, no-fault or workers’
• Reduce injuries, vehicle damage and claims costs while compensation claims.
helping drivers adopt safer habits
• Improve the productivity of your fleet and your people
Optimize fleet effectiveness.
Reduce fleet maintenance costs proactively. By measuring the way time is spent throughout your fleet
every day, you will better understand the quality of your time
• Manage miles driven to preserve lease and warranty investment in your field force. Monitoring deviations in time
thresholds and slow depreciation and distance will help you initiate strategies for improved
• Schedule preventive maintenance with greater accuracy profitability and productivity through a greater understanding
• Optimize fleet size by identifying under-utilized assets of how your customers are being served.
• Track and control speed to extend the life of gears,
bearings, clutches, suspension and drive trains In addition, reducing speed and other factors that contribute
to wear and tear, and more can help you optimize your
Support smarter operation. preventive maintenance schedule and eliminate unplanned
downtime. Thanks to Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics, costs
Want to drive down costs at the pump? Omnitracs Roadnet associated with out-of-service vehicles can be reduced by up
Telematics can help you eliminate unnecessary miles to 25 percent.
driven, reduce engine idling, and promote efficient driving
practices—all to reduce fuel consumption.
Comprehensive reporting.
• Manage idling and speed: both idling and speeding
accelerate fuel consumption, oil changes, and engine Omnitracs Roadnet Telematics gives you the auditing and
wear. reporting tools needed to ensure obligations.
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Omnitracs Roadnet
Info Center®
With Omnitracs Roadnet Info Center, you’re thinking ahead.
This information resource will help you:
• Analyze stop performance for each individual customer What’s the score? The Omnitracs Roadnet Info Center offers you a
over a given time period broad choice of management tools, including “scoreboards” that
provide a complete overview of Sales and Service History for each
• Provide both historical and real-time information in
of your customers. By selecting an individual customer, you can gain
actionable report formats
immediate access into such key information as planned versus actual
• View by exception, flagging only information that is stats in arrival and departure times, designated deliveries versus off-
off-plan day deliveries, daily on-time versus late deliveries, and other critical
service details.
• Reduce costs by eliminating the need for paper
documentation
By tapping into both the planned routing and real-time tracking data generated by the Omnitracs Roadnet Transportation
Suite, Omnitracs Roadnet Info Center provides a full spectrum of critical intelligence for management, operations, customer
service sales, and other decision makers in your organization. Easily integrated into your company’s existing intranet, Omnitracs
Roadnet Info Center does not require special installation or a separate server, and can even reside on an individual desktop PC.
Once installed, it can be configured quickly to meet your login and security requirements, set up user accounts, and establish
database configurations.
Omnitracs Roadnet Info Center also can serve as a powerful platform for your customer service department by providing
instant access to route status and accurate customer arrival or appointment times.
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Omnitracs Roadnet - Insight®
Power your business with intelligence with Omnitracs Roadnet Insight Business Analytics Platform.
• Spot a trend and easily drill down to find the root cause Insight makes it easy to sort, filter, group and visualize the
• View data by company, business unit or region — or specific information you need. Use system templates, or
down to the vehicle or driver level create graphs of your own. Data can be reported from a
• Make better decisions based on all your operating data corporate or business unit level all the way down to an
— current and historical individual piece of equipment or worker.
individual piece of equipment or worker.
Understand how transportation decisions affect your bottom
line
Effortless set-up and management.
Integrated intelligence.
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