What is meant by “real-time” logistics?
“Real time” is all about getting the right product to the right person at the right time for the lowest cost. It means that the information you operate on is current, rather than representing conditions as they may have existed 30 minutes or several hours before. In the past, dispatchers operated on manually created charts or boards that approximated the locations of each driver. Such systems were prone to error and delays, changes of sequence or break downs quickly rendered them out-of-date. Real-time trucking software, on the other hand, means that the precise location of every driver is known and that locations shift as drivers move on their various routes. Cheetah’s real-time dynamic routing allows a user to effortlessly enter an “on demand” (not previously scheduled) pickup. The Cheetah trucking software system immediately recognizes the new stop, automatically geo-codes the customer location, determines which route to put the pick up on, automatically places the stop on the route
