Optimization
Find your best solution by balancing all of your logistics goals and trade-offs, avoiding the short-sightedness of sequential decision making. Advanced algorithms automatically generate high-quality plans that improve overall operational efficiency.

• Simultaneously plan inbound and outbound networks across business divisions
• Continuously optimize using time fences to restrict decisions as their lead time evaporates, while postponing commitment for more optimization opportunities
• Create multi-stop truckloads, including multiple pickups, backhauls and continuous moves
• Compare common carrier versus dedicated or private fleet tradeoffs with any number of stops per route with or without pre-assigned service areas
• Select cross docks, pool points and other hub-spoke journeys that support any number of legs per shipment, including drop shipment into the hubs and partial unloading at cross docks

Interactivity
Visualize, analyze and update transportation plans in memory, before committing them to the TMS transaction system.

Key features:

• Detailed map and schedule views
• Cancel a shipment; insert a shipment into a specific route, etc.
• Change a cross dock assignment
• View vehicle and shipment utilization at each stop in the plan
• Save and restore a previous plan, continue planning from last session
• Scenario management for what-if simulation and analysis

Integration
Plug-in architecture and detailed Java/C++ advanced programming interfaces (APIs) make integration possible with any transportation management system (TMS).

Key features:

• Allows Importing and exporting of data to external order management or TMS through Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) or an in-memory API.
• Continuous optimization without the need to replace transactional software investments
• Role-specific control of GUI features and import/export process
• Configurable reports and one-click export to Microsoft Excel
• Customizable plug ins for implementation-specific control of application features

Next steps
Learn more about how ILOG can help you improve transportation scheduling: