GIS Improves Mobile Resource Planning and Logistics

In today’s fast-paced society, customers demand service and products sooner than ever.
Companies offering delivery services are fi nding they need to provide quick deliveries and accurate
time windows. While companies struggle to meet these demands, they also must weigh their
costs for services since mobilizing workforces can be an expensive endeavor in both assets and
personnel resources.
Small companies and Fortune 500 companies alike are fi nding that ESRI’s GIS software for mobile
resource planning is critical to meeting these goals. They are discovering how ESRI software
makes it easier to improve business operations so they can get the right goods and services to the
correct place at the appropriate time for the least cost.
Transport operators, logistics companies, and service engineers are realizing major improvements
in operational effi ciency, cost reduction, and resource deployment. Using a GIS-based,
geographically focused logistics package allows users to
Calculate realistic travel times and distances between stops, deliveries, and depots.
Improve work area balancing, work scheduling, and route optimization.
Create more realistic and accurate routing and scheduling plans that consider natural barriers,
street-level travel times, traffi c fl ows, and holdups.
ESRI’s GIS software can be used for many aspects of logistics and supply-chain management
including site selection analysis, asset and property management, route optimization, scheduling,
vehicle tracking, and long-range planning and forecasting.
Large-scale users of ESRI software have shown an average savings of $15 million over traditional
manual methods, while other operators have found a 15–30 percent inventory reduction by taking
corrective action earlier and mobilizing their inventory more effectively.
To avoid being overwhelmed by the scale and cost of planning deliveries and operating fl eets
effi ciently, businesses are turning to GIS-based logistics solutions, replacing guesswork with
strategy to generate the most effi cient routes.

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