To efficiently employ field staff, driving times to client locations must be as short as possible. The TRAMPAS Field Service is an add-on module that offers optimal tour and service planning for your field staff.

User Advantages:

• Independent route planning by the field staff (e.g.: detailed planning, determination of time windows at client locations)
• Allotment of default round trips to the field service
• Adherence to pre-set visit cycles
• Display of field service districts
• Optimization of district division

Both planning effort and driving distances are optimized – for increased on-location, active sales time with your clients.

TRAMPAS, with its highly developed disposal module, is the ideal tour planning and scheduling system for commercial waste management and specialist disposal companies.

User Advantages:

• Significantly fewer kilometres traveled with the same order quantity
• Prevention of empty runs
• Efficient use of fleets

TRAMPAS’ Disposal is based on the requirements and order types of the practice. It collects orders specific to disposal logistics, such as installation, removal, exchange, emptying, conversion and trough stacking. Comprehensive container management is enabled as well:

• Management of all container types (troughs, unwinders) with their specifications (size, covers, etc.)
• Representation of stacking options for all container types, in all combinations
• Assignment of containers to the appropriate vehicles
• Differentiation between full and empty containers on single stages

With TRAMPAS, the complete tour planning process remains dynamic. If changes arise in a tour that has already begun—for example, a change of disposal site after arriving at a client location—these may be integrated into the ongoing planning in real-time.

The LP/2 freight calculation module, integrated in TRAMPAS, can be used for processing tours via forwarders – for fast, far-reaching and dependable freight cost calculation.

User Advantages:

• Determination of the lowest freight costs through forwarder proposals
• Comparison of actual freight costs and favourable freight cost alternatives
• Automatic voucher creation through transfer of TRAMPAS tours to the LP/2 Voucher server
• Automated voucher and invoice creation

Combining TRAMPAS tour planning with LP/2 enables transparent and cost-efficient transport management. As both solutions stem from the same source, continuous, coordinated data flow is guaranteed – an important aspect for our customers.

With integration of the high-capacity simulation/control tools SCALA and SP/2, planning and organization of procurement and distribution logistic processes become even more efficient and future-oriented.

Our project leaders and developers are experts in the area of window and door manufacturing, as well as façades and interior construction. TRAMPAS tour planning comes with standard interfaces for ERP systems with industry layouts, like CANTOR, for example, and guarantees smooth integration.

User Advantages:

• Complex calculation options for the load quantity (e.g.: windows with blind boxes)
• Management of up to three scheduling-relevant quantities
• Display options for oversized and separate planning options
• Planning of private vehicle fleets (and forwarders during peak periods)
• Observation of fixed and weekly appointments
• Notification per email or fax
• Observance of all delivery types
• Use of telematics interface
• Central planning with various production locations
• Optimization of loading and unloading processes through scanner connection
• Assignment of swap trailers
• Assignment of loading device management (loading device supervision)

The TRAMPAS Window and Door Manufacturing industry solution covers virtually all industry-specific requirements – without expensive and laborious custom development.

Trade logistics is comprised of a fast flow of goods, short product life cycles, high pricing and quality pressure and abundant restrictions. TRAMPAS Trade has been developed to accommodate trade-specific requirements and offers the following user benefits:

• Guarantee of regular branch deliveries from order and delivery schedules with projection quantities
• Scheduling according to transport assistance devices, including Euro pallets, rolling containers, thermo containers, etc.
• Master tour planning
• Consideration of seasonal peaks
• Determination of parking space requirements according to order quantities
• Real-time scheduling by updating actual quantities based on previously scheduled estimations during consignment
• Temperature-guided transport: consideration of refrigerated vehicles with variable partitions and differing temperature zones
• Connection to storage via interfaces for scanner-supported loading
• Order scheduling over alternative distribution centres (cross-docking)

Just in Time Production (JiT) is an approved optimization concept for procurement and goods logistics in the furniture industry. Capital-binding inventory and cost-intensive storage space are reduced through utilization of this concept. TRAMPAS Furniture supports this foundational restructuring of the production process by controlling this production directly from the freight vehicles.

User Advantages:

• Bottlenecks in production capacity are observed as early as in the planning algorithm
• Supports continuous production capacity
• Complete or partial representation of production or production lines
• Data generation for production control, taking shipping aspects into account
• Supplementary automatisms: Realization of order changes without scheduler intervention

The TRAMPAS service module is specially developed for effective assignment planning for mechanics and service technicians. Maintenance and repair orders are collected in the pre-system and transferred to the TRAMPAS tour planning system via an interface. This specialized industry module supports automatic tour planning for mechanics; considering numerous, order-specific parameters including urgency, specialized skills required, number of mechanics needed, etc. The tours, calculated in TRAMPAS, are then transferred over another system interface to the mechanic’s mobile device.

User Advantages:

• Accomplishment of highly complex planning tasks
• Reduced weekly planning effort
• Automatic organization of "meeting" tours for orders that, for example, require two mechanics with differing qualifications.
• Automatic update of all dependent tours if a tour is changed

Differentiation at the beginning of a week tour, according to the mechanic’s home or business location (e.g.: when conveying materials)

Telematics is an integral component in the logistics of many industries. Staedtler-Logistics offers customizable and flexible connection to many telematics systems – for total control, continuous supervision and comprehensive documentation of the work flow.

Vehicle Locating by Means of GPS and Deviation Detection

On-board computer connections enable the scheduler to have the exact location of the vehicles in view at all times. Deviations of a vehicle from the planned tour are automatically recognized and reported by the system. Interactive scheduling of new transport orders (flash orders) to the best-positioned vehicle is also possible.

Electronic Order Processing

Telematics solutions contribute significantly to efficient order processing. Not only is the communication between drivers and schedulers improved, but every event is documented and can be seen by the scheduler. Customers can be notified in advance of impending delivery delays. Paper documents and time-consuming telephone calls are rendered unnecessary. Electronic confirmations to the shipper and/or consignee increase the transparency of the logistic forwarding and the level of service.

Navigation, Low Emission Vehicle Fleets, CO2 Reports

Real-time navigation with a reporting function enables the number of kilometres travelled to be monitored and optimized. Fleet operators not only reduce their fuel usage, and thus reduce their costs, but also improve their reputation regarding environmental concerns.

Loading and Unloading Scanning

Packages are checked for completeness and/or damage through connection to a scanner. If a package is missing or is damaged during transport, a notification is sent to the central system via telematics. This information is forwarded to the manufacturer through TRAMPAS. Fast reproduction can be arranged.

Further user advantages of fleet telematics:

• Leg display and navigation
• Supervision of vehicle assignment times
• Supervision of driving and rest times
• Import of actual data from the telematics system
• Vehicle performance evaluation options
• Context-sensitive sensor data processing (for example, load-dependent temperature monitoring)
• Automatic invoice generation (signed, receipted deliveries)
• Communication between driver and scheduler by means of TRAMPAS text messages (GPRS)
• Optimized communication with customers
• Telematics data are evaluable with the SP/2 statistics tool (several graphic visualization options)

• Configurability:
  Custom configurability of views, form display, list creation, operation sequences and interfaces supports multifaceted requirements.
• Archiving:
  Large data stocks or planning periods can be archived and used for statistic evaluations.
• Genetic Algorithm:
  TRAMPAS is based on a special, computationally intensive tour planning algorithm from the group of nature-inspired procedures.
• User-friendliness:
  Intuitively operated and graphical user interfaces (Windows Look & Feel) increases work efficiency for the user.
• Script Language:
  Recurring tasks can be automated with TRAMPAS script
• Task Plan:
  The TRAMPAS task plan mode assists in execution of routine tasks
• Toll:
  Toll roads are accounted for per country and taken into account during the algorithm run time.
• Holidays:
  TRAMPAS observes holidays in all European countries.
• Multiple Languages:
  TRAMPAS is currently available in German, French, English, and Polish. Additional languages are available upon request.
• Multi-client Capability:
  Each user is assigned one or more clients; the user only has access to general data or that of his client on record level.
• Route Display:
  A map and route list with driving instructions may be created for each tour and saved as a PDF.
• Excel Export:
  Each table can easily be exported to Excel.
• Driver Management:
  Driver management includes absence management, driver assignment and visualization of current schedules in the driver assignment table.
• Vehicle Management:
  This view facilitates maintenance management and vehicle scheduling, as well as the corresponding visual representations in the vehicle planning chart.

Interfaces

Well-functioning interfaces play an important role in integrated systems like TRAMPAS. We offer interfaces based on the most diverse technologies (XML, CSV, Database tables and WebServices). We customize existing interfaces or create new interfaces to suit client and industry-specific requirements upon request.

• Individually configurable open database model
• Automation through diverse server processes; for archiving, cyclic statistics, etc.
• Flexibly configurable interfaces (Input/Output)
• Customizable views and list displays
• Multiple Languages: German/English/French/Polish; additional languages in preparation
• Excel© Exports of all data and statistics: flexible compilation of data, configuration of Excel© format
• Modular system structure
• Object-oriented programming with C++, C#
• Connection to the relational database systems Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, DB2
• Clients for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7
• Compatible with CITRIX, Microsoft Terminal Services