GIS for Routing/Logistics

Lower Distribution Costs

Managing the logistics of delivering publications to customers or resellers can be costly. GIS integrates mapping analysis into decision support for everything from calculated arrival times to customer sites and schedule requests.

GIS allows your logistics manager to map routes for multiple trucks while accounting for factors such as set delivery times, construction or other delaying factors on the roads, and minimizing route miles. Route plans can be viewed in map format as well as list and timeline format and updates can be sent to drivers already on their routes. Streamlining the distribution process helps reduce costs and improve service to existing customers.

ESRI helped Sears, one of the nation's leading retailers, build a routing and scheduling system that resulted in direct cost savings in the tens of millions of dollars per year. Recent advances in our spatial and network analysis tools allow businesses to track assets in motion, analyze delivery patterns, predict road volumes, and much more.

ESRI Technology Solutions

• ArcGIS
• ArcLogistics
• ArcView with the ArcView Network Analyst and ArcView Tracking Analyst extensions

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• GIS for Logistics and Fleet Management