LS/ATN – Living Systems^® Adaptive Transportation Networks

LS/ATN is a comprehensive solution for the dynamic optimization and dispatching of Full and Less Than Truck Load (FTL and LTL) operations. Delivering superior real-time visibility and dispatching decision support for distributed transportation networks, LS/ATN reduces transportation costs, increases process efficiencies and improves resource utilization.

Features and benefits of LS/ATN

Put business goals behind the wheel

In the logistics and transportation industry, up to 40% of all actual transactions will typically differ from the plan. Without the ability to optimize and implement plans continuously in the now, crucial KPIs are therefore at the mercy of highly volatile factors: new or changing orders, equipment and operator availability, routing changes due to traffic and weather, and many more. This severely jeopardizes companies’ abilities to optimize performance in an extremely competitive industry – on the micro as well as the macro level.

With LS/ATN, Whitestein Technologies offers logistics and transportation providers an attractive product that takes variable conditions out of the driver’s seat and instead puts clear business goals back behind the wheel.

The multi-agent advantage

The software agent architecture of LS/ATN is capable of supporting an unparalleled breadth of diverse and variable elements such as organizational units, orders, and environment conditions. While these elements' properties change and often even affect each other, LS/ATN dynamically reconciles their abilities to affect the overall outcome. Thus, our solution continuously optimizes performance according to paramount business goals, such as capacity utilization.

LS/ATN adds value through visibility and decision-support

LS/ATN adds tremendous value for medium to large transportation companies that use standard planning tools and transportation management systems but are lacking support for managing and executing short-term deviations from the plan.

Features and benefits of LS/ATN

• Real-time event handling and dynamic optimization of dispatching decisions improves process efficiency, capacity utilization and kilometers driven and leads to significant savings
• Reconciles negotiable and non-negotiable boundary conditions and target KPIs, fulfilling service level agreements and increasing overall performance towards the customers
• Presents all optimized routes in an intuitive GUI to all dispatchers and thus prevents misalignment when distributed dispatchers work simultaneously
• Considers and connects all intermodal transportation for maximal utilization
• Supports comprehensive drag & drop planning and monitoring of the entire logistics execution process from order entry to billing and reporting and establishes superior transparency in terms of quality, costs and profit
• Combines automated and manual dispatching to leave full control and final decision with the human dispatcher, thus increasing user acceptance
• Automates communication and thus improves coordination in distributed organizations
• Offers simulation with real operational data to assists in tactical and strategic decision making
• Tightly integrates with existing transportation management systems and telematics solutions
• Flexibly scales and tightly integrates into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)