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- Bulk Transport Operations Assistant - Mayer Hoffman McCann
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- KEYWORDS: scheduling, transportation, vehicle management, distribution, Transportation , 816
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- Operation Management Tool for Transportation of Chemicals
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- Bulk Transport Operations Assistant (BTOA) is a complete operations management
- system for bulk and specialty carriers. The system had been developed to
- maximize a bulk carrier's asset utilization while insuring safe, on time
- customer service. Orders are tracked from receipt to customer payment, with
- assets tracked at all times through check calls and order completion
- confirmations, allowing customer requirements to be met with a minimum of
- layovers, downtime, and cleaning costs. Asset selection and utilization is
- enhanced by having complete knowledge of product requirements, availability,
- qualifications and special equipment. Schedules are maintained at whatever
- level of accuracy the users desire - by trip leg, order legs, or total order.
- BTOA calculates ETAs, asset availability and does load matching while warning
- about late loads, load conflicts, excessive downtime or layovers, and other
- schedule conflicts. Safety is enhanced as products can be matched to the
- proper equipment as well as shippers to origins and products. consignees to
- destinations and products. All order and trip information is maintained in a
- complete history so that load, trip, revenue, cost, and utilization reports
- can be created by asset, product, origin, destination, customer, shipper, etc.
- All mileage and times can be loaded and verified through interfaces with PC
- Miler and other routing and distance packages.
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- Mayer Hoffman McCann
- Tel: (816) 968-1000
- Fax: (816) 531-7695
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