The VISIT Plus database maintains up-to-date details of your operation, including

• Driver location, shift patterns, vehicle assignments

 

• Vehicle location, loading/unloading equipment, size, delivery rate, weight and volume capacity, compartment loading configuration and costs

 

• Depot location, standard loading and break times, product availability and cost

 

• Product or pallet characteristics, including density, product grouping and offtake cost

 

• Order/product quantity by line

 

• Customer details and their delivery constraints and preferences

VISIT Plus maintains a digital road network of the delivery area in graphical form. Features include :

• Full zoom, pan and select facilities for detailed examination and updating

 

• Individual components of the network can be added, changed or suspended

 

• Speed categories can be set by road type and environment, e.g. rural, urban

 

• Delivery/collection point locations can be added or changed

 

• Shortest routes calculation with options for display/printing of journey analyses and time and distance maintenance, for use in the scheduling process

 

• Optional postcode address validation

The VISIT Plus scheduler provides a powerful automatic scheduling framework to handle the widest range of complex vehicle scheduling requirements. They include the ability to plan on the basis of:

• Multi-drops

 

• Multi-trips

 

• Multi-depots

 

• Multi-site

 

• Mixed fleets

 

• Mixed order priorities

 

• Customer time windows

 

• Mixed collection and delivery points

 

• Compartments