{"id":1667,"date":"2017-04-09T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/?p=1667"},"modified":"2017-04-09T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:24:59","slug":"how-route-optimization-saas-solutions-help-logistics-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2017\/04\/09\/how-route-optimization-saas-solutions-help-logistics-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Route Optimization SaaS Solutions Help Logistics Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/How_SaaS_solutions_help_logistic_managers_to_improve_the_supply_chain1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1668 size-full\" title=\"How Route Optimization SaaS Solutions Help Logistics Managers\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/How_SaaS_solutions_help_logistic_managers_to_improve_the_supply_chain1.jpg\" alt=\"How Route Optimization SaaS Solutions Help Logistics Managers\" width=\"750\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/How_SaaS_solutions_help_logistic_managers_to_improve_the_supply_chain1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/How_SaaS_solutions_help_logistic_managers_to_improve_the_supply_chain1-300x124.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>How\u00a0Route Optimization SaaS Solutions Help Logistics Managers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Customization and segmentation, velocity, internal collaboration and agility are some crucial challenges and problems that <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/2016\/11\/29\/food-logistics-market-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">logistics <\/a><\/strong><\/span>managers are currently facing. In addition, the supply chain industry is constantly changing, due to the rapid evolution of technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">These\u00a0never ending requirements\u00a0also bring us some very useful online tools and software solutions for the new requirements in logistics management, such as:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>GPS Trackers<\/li>\n<li>Internal Communication<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/2016\/11\/22\/1510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Route Optimization<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Warehouse Management<\/li>\n<li>Flight and Cargo Management<\/li>\n<li>Scheduling<\/li>\n<li>Billing<\/li>\n<li>Documentation, Consolidation and Container Management<\/li>\n<li>Shipping Management<\/li>\n<li>Freight Forwarding<\/li>\n<li>Contract Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8230;And many others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All these software and cloud-based tools, provided by SaaS companies, help the logistics and supply chain industry to face challenges in a better way, contribute to small companies to be competitive maintaining reasonable costs, to be able to reach foreign markets, and to be innovative, which is one of the best ways for a small or medium logistics operator\u00a0to compete and beat the bigger players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cursos-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1253 size-medium\" title=\"Fleet managemet training\" src=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cursos-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Fleet managemet training\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/cursos-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/08\/cursos-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The main goal of this course is to provide the knowledge and the skills to manage any kind of vehicle fleet through all its activities and key aspects.\u00a0The course is aimed to executives, middle managers, fleet managers and any professional related to fleet management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know our fleet management cours<\/a>e<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>What\u00a0are the main benefits that route optimization software solutions provide to logistics managers?<\/h4>\n<p>Cost and ROI. According to <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inboundlogistics.com\/cms\/article\/how-to-benefit-from-saas-tms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Inbound Logistics<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cSaaS is sold as a service, not a product, which increases and accelerates a user&#8217;s return on investment as it moves from implementation to integration and finally optimization. There are no costly upgrades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/warehousenews.co.uk\/2014\/05\/the-many-benefits-and-few-cons-of-a-saas-warehouse-management-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Warehouse News (UK)<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0states that SaaS management systems are usually easy and quick to implement and start using.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They\u2019re normally up and running <em>\u201cin just one to three months\u201d<\/em>, so your business begins to see a positive ROI earlier than any another type of solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cThe value of modern cloud-based solutions &#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.supplychaindigital.com\/supplychainmanagement\/2388\/Cloud-Computing-in-the-Supply-Chain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Supply Chain Digital<\/strong> <\/a><\/span><\/em><em>says- \u00a0is that they are architected from the ground up to be highly configurable in anticipation of business change.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As we previously explained, this is one key factor that allows a company to achieve market differentiation, and be the first to identify new business opportunities.\u00a0Integrated metrics for logistics managers. KPI\u2019s have always been essential to\u00a0the logistics\u00a0industry, but without technology it has been difficult to use them\u00a0at their\u00a0best, and to coordinate all of them to have a clear and wide view of how your business is doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thanks to SaaS solutions and cloud computing systems, logistic managers can integrate all metrics in one dashboard, to see how performance evolves, in real time or as a record, and they even could foresee different scenarios.<\/p>\n<h4>Scalability<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cIn transportation management, scalability can be as simple as having immediate access to additional carriers already in the network. SaaS allows users to more easily flex to demand; onboard new customers, carriers, and suppliers; or add and upgrade services on demand,\u201d <\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inboundlogistics.com\/cms\/article\/how-to-benefit-from-saas-tms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Inbound Logistics<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>explains.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">Customization and Easy Upgrading<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>\u201cUsers can facilitate on-demand changes in customer business rules, readily introduce new transport event messages with trading partners, enable rich reporting and data visualization, and other important capabilities that constrain legacy systems &#8211;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.supplychaindigital.com\/supplychainmanagement\/2388\/Cloud-Computing-in-the-Supply-Chain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Supply Chain Digital<\/a> <\/span>stands-. And when software modification is needed, studies show that solutions built with modern SaaS technologies can be quickly modified for less than 20% of the cost to modify a legacy application.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Accessibility and Collaboration<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em> \u201cWith more partners integrated on a single platform and more data streaming across the network &#8211;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inboundlogistics.com\/cms\/article\/how-to-benefit-from-saas-tms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Inbound Logistics<\/a><\/strong> explains- individual users benefit by having access to more robust and accurate information. Reporting and benchmarking performance data provides business intelligence that can be shared among all users in the network to create additional value.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&#8220;Besides, thanks to efficient data-sharing decisions can be taken in a better and faster way, and that helps companies to have better management results.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\">What\u00a0are the main benefits you have experienced\u00a0in using\u00a0a\u00a0SaaS solution\u00a0for your route optimization?<\/h4>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<div class=\"blog-section\">\n<div class=\"blog-post-wrapper cell-wrapper\">\n<h4 id=\"hubspot-topic_data\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\" Francisca Howard\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.hubspot.net\/hubfs\/1546224\/team\/francisca.jpg?t=1466869571349\" alt=\"Francisca Howard\" width=\"253\" height=\"250\" \/>Writen by\u00a0Francisca Howard<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about-author-sec row-fluid\">\n<div class=\"span10\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Francisca is a commercial engineer by University Adolfo Iba\u00f1ez. She worked 10 years in the retail industry and the last few months she has been working as a business developer for\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.driv.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Drivin<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a\u00a0SaaS solution that allows to distribution companies to reduce its transport costs as well as increase the service quality of their final clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify\">Join to my Facebook and LinkedIn pages focus on Fleet Management, each week we publish posts, conferences, news and technology related to Fleet Management.<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting\/?ref=bookmarks\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2076 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/imagenes-de-facebook-logo-4-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"imagenes-de-facebook-logo-4\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting\/?ref=bookmarks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/advanced-fleet-management-consulting?trk=biz-companies-cym\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2077\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/768px-LinkedIn_logo_initials-300x300.png\" alt=\"768px-LinkedIn_logo_initials\" width=\"89\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #800000\"><a style=\"color: #800000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/advanced-fleet-management-consulting?trk=biz-companies-cym\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1233 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"nueva-ley-auditoria\" width=\"261\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/nueva-ley-auditoria-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/nueva-ley-auditoria-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/07\/nueva-ley-auditoria.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet management. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/audit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Know our fleet management audit<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How\u00a0Route Optimization SaaS Solutions Help Logistics Managers Customization and segmentation, velocity, internal collaboration and agility are some crucial challenges and problems that logistics managers are currently facing. In addition, the supply chain industry is constantly changing, due to the rapid evolution of technology. 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