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Automated / Manual Planning

The key to any business success where jobs are allocated is to get the planning process right. In Transport or Service Planning it is the hub of Operations.

All too often the wrong planning decisions are made because of the necessity to deal with several things at once, analyse movements, capacities and resources etc., and is often dependant on one individual.

FLEET AUTO-MATES improves the planning process by making it more visual and easy to use. It then seeks to automate routine processes. This may be as simple as organising into postcode area's, or automatic pricing or it can be more so sophisticated such as auto trunking, job type sorting, processing customers' electronic orders, resource balancing, optimising etc.

How Planning is organised is often the key to a company's success and most companies have their own method of managing processes to keep them ahead of competitors.

If manually planning, it is important to see what profitability there is as jobs are being planned. Integration to optimised mapping, mobile working, business rules etc, at this stage enables expected profitability to be shown. Later, when jobs are in progress actual costs can be compared.

MSA recognise that many companies want to incorporate their specific way of planning jobs and has many templates available in its libraries or it can design bespoke functionality into a planning process.

FLEET AUTO-MATES planning whiteboards act as a day planner and can also show the status of jobs in progress if mobile worker or TOM TOM WORK is utilised.