Computerise your routes
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AN IRISH company is offering to the transport industry computer packages which can be bought outright for £40,000.
Rainsford Logistics, a Guinness Group subsidiary, is offering ALPA (Adaptive Load Planning Aid) for E7,500 a year or £25,000 outright, and Autoroute, a route planning program, for £4,500 a year or £15,000 outright.
ALPA is said to combine the decision-making ability of the load planner with a computer's speed and accuracy, and takes account of load weights and volume, vehicle size, journey distance and times, and delivery restrictions.
It provides load planners with the facility to vary the importance attached to fuel economy, customer priority, and the spread of workload among drivers, and Rainsford insists that the load planner always dominates the computer.
The Autoroute package, which provides a map on a computer gives details of the optimum routes from one point to another, taking account of speed and cost, and has facilities for recording details of environmental factors, congestion, ferry times, and toll fees.
More details are available from Rainsford at St James's Gate, Dublin, 8, Ireland.