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In today’s fast-paced logistics environment, optimizing your transportation network is more important than ever. It’s not just about reducing costs, it’s about understanding your fleet and routes. Most importantly, it is about ensuring deliveries meet customer service expectations with maximum efficiency.
That’s where AIMMS Transport Navigator comes in.
Transport Navigator is a powerful module built to tackle complex transport planning challenges using advanced optimization techniques.
If you’ve reached the limits of Excel and want to up your game by using best-of-breed optimization technology, Transport Navigator is made for you!
What makes Transport Navigator different?
While traditional tools rely purely on heuristics, Transport Navigator leverages cutting-edge solver technology that combines heuristics with mathematical optimization.
This unique blend enables faster and more accurate decisions, even in highly complex, real-world conditions. We have embedded a best-of-breed solver, which is specifically designed to solve large-scale, practical routing and scheduling problems, giving Transport Navigator an edge over comparable software.
What questions can Transport Navigator answer?
Transport Navigator helps logistics teams solve critical challenges, such as:
- What fleet size and type of vehicle do I need to serve all delivery points?
- What are the optimal fixed routes for my vehicles?
By answering these questions, you gain control over your fleet and routes, resulting in improved service levels and reduced costs and waste.
How does the optimization work?
The objective of Transport Navigator is to minimize cost while respecting business rules and constraints. In practice, this translates into a multi-objective and staged optimization algorithm that seeks to minimize all categories of cost, including:
- Distance Cost
- Hourly Cost
- Cost per Dispatch
- Cost per Stop
- Cost per Layover
- Fixed Cost per Vehicle
- Fixed Cost per Day
- Lateness Cost
What constraints can it handle?
Transport Navigator is built to reflect the complexity of real-world logistics in multi-stop delivery environments. It allows you to model and manage a variety of constraints, including:
- Duty time and drive time
- Layovers and driver breaks
- Volume and weight restrictions
- Time required for loading and preparation
- Delivery time windows
- Predefined fixed routes
How does Transport Navigator work with SC Navigator?
- Use Transport Navigator as a stand-alone tool to design optimal fixed routes that you should run, and feed that to your Transportation Management System for execution.
- Use it in conjunction with the Network Design functionality in AIMMS SC Navigator to understand what changes you need to make to your fleet and routes if you restructure your network.
You can find more details in the Transport Navigator documentation.
Want to see how it works in your supply chain? Reach out to AIMMS today and start transforming and optimizing your transport planning with AIMMS Transport Navigator.
See how Transport Navigator helps you optimize fleet size, fixed routes, and delivery performance with greater accuracy and control.
