Data Management
Business Requirement:
Modern day business systems are no longer an island of data as in the past. Today's business platforms integrate with remote services and processes to reduce cost and improve service and communications. This requires trading critical transactional data between disparate locations and servers. Moving to this type of business platform depends on data integrity and consistency throughout the process and communications cycle.
To enable your business to take advantage of these services we must improve the consistency and validity of data as it enters and exits the system so it meets the rigid standards required to apply automated systems and processes. The data entry and validation methods of the past are no longer sufficient to support a modern business platform.
Solution:
Delivery Management (DM) solves
this problem and takes your business data to the level of consistency, reliability and usability needed to leverage the best business
process solutions and integrate with third party systems.
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One database: The clients' data is imported from their existing accounting system and combined in a one database,
enabling the "DataView" capability within .
This sets the frame work for centralized or "collaborative" dispatch by enabling the user to switch views of delivery operations and
product requirements based on a single operating location, custom groups of operating locations or the whole operation; And by it's
nature as a web application allows collective management of delivery planning, dispatch and assessing product demand from anywhere
in the organization without geographic restrictions.
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Cleaning Data: Client data enters
only after our automated system checks each item affecting delivery planning. Data problems are automatically reported via the
built-in messaging system where the user can
review and act on data problems before they get any further into the system.
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Delivery addresses and geo-code management: Since these are so important to modern mapping and routing systems
DM provides special tools
to manage geo-coding of addresses. A automated service is constantly scanning the database for new or changed addresses to geo-code;
and the user has several locations in that
provide on screen tools to fix addresses that could not be automatically geo-coded.
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Automated Weather Data: It's best to leave the weather forecasting to the professionals, that's why
integrates live weather feeds directly into
the system for each area where you do business. Historical data every 30 minutes, 5 and 10-day forecast 4 times/day and 30 year
averages for each location. This weather data is matched up to usage data and tank monitor temperature readings for the same period
as the input to our statistical model.
Impact:
Removal of outdated and error prone processes such as:
- Degree Day forecasting
- K-Factor estimating
- Manual posting of transactions
- Manual scheduling of deliveries
- Manual geo-coding of tank locations
- Manual routing
- Manual report generation
- Manual capacity planning
