Corex Logistics (Corex) (Axelot: TMS Transport and Transportation Management)

2020

In addition to automating transportation processes, the list of tasks of the project included organizing the implementation of applications for the transportation of cargo, taking into account the division by the shoulders of deliveries using multimodal transportation schemes. It was necessary to develop tariff grids and introduce a calculation of the cost of transportation. It was necessary to implement the calculation of planned revenues, recording of actual expenses, distribution of costs and a plan-based analysis based on the collected data. In addition, the functionality of a mobile client was needed to control the performance of flights and the work of drivers.

Within the project, AXELOT TMS has been integrated with the customer's warehouse management system. The integration mechanism was the DATAREON MQ message queuing service.

Automatic scheduling of periodic flights is implemented, planned revenues/expenses are calculated and actual revenues/expenses are recorded. Manual planning takes into account the time windows of delivery to customer points, as well as by highlighting points on the map with a polygon, selects jobs in the list and distributes them to vehicles.

The functionality of the AXELOT TMS system allows you to manage vehicle and driver documents, as well as issue and work with waybills. Drivers are monitored and monitored using mobile devices using the AXELOT TMS mobile application. Location control is used, the progress of work is monitored at points, and statistics on the time spent by recipients are accumulated.

Monitoring of the entire delivery cycle taking into account the delivery of equipment (thermal container, sensor) for the delivery of the main cargo, as well as taking into account the return of equipment through several intermediate points to the warehouse within the framework of one request for cargo transportation and one supply chain has become one of the key features of the project. Another feature was the introduction of deployed tariff grids and charging to control planned and actual revenues.

Within the framework of the project, it was possible to implement and implement a lot of interesting functionality that positively affects the work of the company.

• It is possible to split the route by one request for cargo transportation into several delivery arms, taking into account the use of auxiliary equipment through several intermediate points, as well as taking into account the return of containers and equipment from the receiving address within the framework of one request.
• As part of the selection of a multimodal scheme, it became possible, in addition to intermediate delivery points between the addresses of departure and receipt, to indicate previous points before the address of departure, as well as indicate subsequent points after the address of receipt on the request for cargo transportation. Thus, it is possible to deliver special equipment for fulfilling the request (thermal container, sensor), specific cargo in containers (dry ice) as part of individual flights and deliver the main cargo (drugs, biomaterials).
• It is possible to indicate the initial and final stage of transportation in the request for cargo transportation. Thus, it is possible to take into account the appearance of the main cargo at a specific stage in the supply chain. For example, the cargo is transported from Novosibirsk to Yaroslavl, in order to move the cargo, it is necessary to deliver a thermal container/sensors to Novosibirsk, which are sent from a warehouse in Moscow, respectively, the supply chain begins from Moscow. Therefore, to carry out the main cargo transportation, the initial stage will be equal to the stage from Novosibirsk, the final stage will be equal to Yaroslavl, and for moving the thermal container/sensor, the initial and final stages will be Moscow.
• It is possible to calculate the tariff grid according to the multimodal scheme. For example, if the address of departure on the request is Yaroslavl, and the address of receipt is Novosibirsk, then in order to calculate the delivery of equipment from the warehouse from Moscow to Yaroslavl for the main delivery, it is necessary to take into account the departure zone (Moscow) from the multimodal scheme, as well as the receipt zone (Yaroslavl).

In general, the use of AXELOT TMS made it possible to reduce the time required for the logist to form routes. Transportation cost allocation was implemented and operational analysis of planned and actual costs became possible. It has been introduced to inform drivers about upcoming flights using a mobile client. It became possible to track the stage of equipment delivery by a unique cargo item number in real time.