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Route optimization and ETA calculation (Estimated time of arrival) helps delivery companies to reduce costs and increase first time delivery success.
A perfect optimization solution not only drops delivery addresses into a black-box called optimizer, but takes into account various conditions of your individual business to produce a result that increases your delivery performance.
Features
- Flexible architecture
- Cloud based (various services interfaced)
- Server based (on-premise possibility)
- Mobile device based using ALK CoPilot optimizer
- Per-Route optimization or entire depot optimization
- Courier profiles
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- Speed profile
- Stop processing time
- General profiles
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- Weather conditions (rain/snow), etc.
- Server based traffic restrictions
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- Time restrictions
- Delivery day restrictions
- Safe place delivery information
- Automated Geocoding
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- HERE cloud service
- Local address databases
- Manual Geocoding
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- Full country database for address completion on mobile device
- Resequencing by courier
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- Recalculating ETAs based on courier defined new sequence
General Features
- Multi-Language Support
- Available in over 15 different languages
- On-the-fly language switching for multi-lingual countries
- End-to-End UTF8 support
- Language tool for easy translation to any language and character set
- GPS-Tracking
- Periodical location transmission to dispatch
- Detail breadcrumb recording for later analysis (each n meters or x seconds)
- Text messages
- Communication with dispatch
- Message history
- Emoticons support
- Fullscreen virtual keyboard
- Free definable keyboard
- Emoticons keyboard
- Latin layout
- Cyrillic layout
- PTT Push-to-talk voice communication
- WIFI (depot) or 4G/5G mobile network (road)
- Send voice message to one/group/all couriers
- Store messages for delayed or repeated listening
- Silent on special processes (e.g. during signature capture)
- Telephony integration
- Unrestricted or restricted to special phone numbers (dispatch, consignee numbers)
- One-click dial on current consignment
- Bluetooth-headset support
- Call-reason recording
- Dynamic Dialog System
- Easy XML definition for dynamic dialogs
- Includes multi media content
- Process- or consignment-related
- Used for
- Surveys
- Instructions
- Documentation
- Multimedia-Training for couriers and dock workers
- Audio-training (e.g. while driving)
- Video-training (e.g. while waiting)
- Textual Instructions
- Peer-to-peer distribution of large multimedia content in depot
- User interface features
- Free formattable multiline/multifont/multicolor lists
- Free configurable full-screen virtual keyboard
- Support for handhelds with/without keyboard
- Swipe & gesture support
- Marquees
- Letter bars
- Gradient coloring
- Rounded corners
- Smartphone style message boxes
- Combined text/image buttons
- Turn-by-turn navigation
- Sygic or ALK Co-Pilot
- Single-key switch between navigation and application
- "Show-on-map" - Feature on loading process
- 2-way-communication with complementary navigation devices
- Onboard Diagnostics Integration
- Support via Bluetooth
- OBD2-Interface
- Camera features
- Free definable number of photos per process
- Photo with Camera
- Photo with Imager
- 3 Image sizes stored: Full, Medium, Thumbnail
- Free definable, which image to transfer online (3G network) or delayed (depot, docking-station)
- Draw on photo to mark damages etc.
- Wireless features
- Push communication
- Connect business process with transfer type
- WIFI in depot
- 4G/5G on the road
- Least cost routing
- Automatic cradle detection (USB or WIFI)
- Compressed & encrypted data transfer
- Backup features
- Permanent SD-Card backup after each transaction
- Backup up n days for desaster recovery
- Security features
- Screen lock with Password
- Encrypted data transfer