Firms are thus increasingly using booking systems to plan the arrival time of a vehicle at manufacturers’ warehouses.
When making a booking for the collection of goods, the booking system requires a determination of the time of the vehicle’s arrival, the vehicle details, the name of the driver, and the number of the transport order given by the customer.
A variety of such information is available to the dispatcher through the GPS solution by using custom filtering criteria. Yet, not all transport relevant information is readily available to the dispatchers, making the planning somewhat challenging