Automated Route Accounting, Multi Pick-Up & Delivery Management System

OpenLogistics™ is a flexible route accounting, pick up & delivery management system that can provide automated data collection and wireless communications capabilities for trucking and armored car mobile operators.

Trucking and armored car companies rely on mobile workers to do business. Instant access to data "on-the-road" can translate to enhanced productivity, and increased security. Prompt and accurate mission critical information is the key to improving control, efficiency, security and customer service.  

With Control Solutions’ OpenLogistics system, vehicle operators use portable automated data collection devices to quickly scan bar codes or key-enter data. These devices eliminate manual re-entry and significantly improve data quality, while increasing productivity, security and efficiency, resulting in increased profitability.

Now wireless wide-area networks (WWAN) and the Internet make it possible to collect and transmit data between a mobile workforce and a central facility almost as quickly as it's collected, regardless of the distance to "homebase".

Special benefits to the armored car industry

• GPS provides a visual method of tracking the armored vehicles through their daily routes.

• Ability to interface seamlessly to CSI's Vault Control System (OpenVCS)

• Reduces windows for theft that presently exist when moving valuables to and from customer locations

• Track and maintain accurate records of all control Items used by the armored vehicle industry. (weapons, keys, ID cards etc.)

OpenLogistics benefits

• Streamlines pick-up, delivery, on-site inventory, and order processing activities

• Supports on-site printing for pick-up or delivery receipts, order confirmation, or bar code labels

• Supports signature capture, validating all pick-up & delivery transactions

• Accommodates batch or wireless applications

• Includes store and forward capability for wireless applications in non-coverage areas

• Supports two-way messaging between mobile workers and central facility operations to allow routing changes "on the fly"

• Supports check in and check out functions

• Includes truck loading functions

• Includes truck transfer functions

• Allows intelligent, intuitive, decision processing

• Logs transaction processing times, premise and stop times

Better manage your oOperations

OpenLogistics™ is designed to improve both security and operations on your vehicle during a daily multi-stop route schedule. You will experience improvements in efficiency, and customer service.

State-of-the-art radio frequency PDTs

New state-of-the-art handheld portable computers, by manufacturers such as Symbol and Hand-Held Products, coupled with Control Solutions' OpenLogistics™ allows you to:

• Check in and check out parcels, carton and pallets by route validating that the correct parcels are loaded onto the correct truck by route assignment

• Verify correct parcels are delivered to the correct customer

• Receive route changes while vehicles are in route

• Print receipts and electronically capture signatures for real-time proof of delivery

• Unlimited verification and validation levels assure parcels leaving and returning to the vehicle are accounted for; thereby minimizing losses

• Track and maintain accurate records of all control items used by the trucking industry (keys, ID cards, etc.)

• Accurately distribute control items, such as keys, to the correct route

• Utilize Global Positioning System (GPS) technology

• Manage and account for indirect and idle time.

Transportation and package delivery

• Automated track and trace

• Real-time proof of delivery

• Data dispatch and messaging

• Electronic consignment or route changes

• Multi-layered validation and verification of parcel deliveries and pick-ups

Distribution and logistics

• Real-time tracking and control

• Delivery verification

• Return load management

• Two-way messaging

The OpenLogistics™ system functionality is tailored to your requirements, which reduces training time and minimizes the impact of change on daily operations.  We can also establish the appropriate interface to your legacy accounting and route management systems.

OpenLogistics™ key features

• Dynamically maintains and monitors operator activity by point-of-service location

• Automatic task scheduling, check-off, and verification by end-point

• Parcel unit on-the-fly audit eliminates pick-up/delivery errors

• In-route transfer accounting

• Two-way messaging for route schedule changes

• Truck loading parcel verification against route schedule activity

• Off-load validation of pick-ups, returns, and non-deliverables

• Pickup and delivery audit

Parcel life cycle

OpenLogistics™ supports the trucking and armored car industry’s parcel life cycle which consists of:

• Parcel pick up

• Parcel  transfer

• Parcel delivery

• Truck transfer

• Truck loading

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