Paragon Software Systems will launch a major upgrade of its routing and scheduling optimisation software at this year’s Commercial Vehicle Show (NEC, Birmingham, 24 to 26 April).
Transport operators who want to cut operational costs, make better use of their fleet resources and significantly improve service levels are encouraged to meet the Paragon team on Stand 3G52 to learn more about this exciting new version of the company’s advanced routing and scheduling optimisation software, which is used by customers worldwide.
Paragon Version 5.6 includes important new features and functionality developed in direct response to real-world requirements and technological advancements. For example, the software has enhanced automatic routing which allows users to specifically target fleet reduction as a key cost-cutting objective. With many options available to make the optimisation process work even harder as it searches for more efficient solutions, there is also a new option to stop routing before completion and keep the current result. It is also now possible to store job specific macros, filters, tables and reports together for easier use.
Mapping developments in this version include special map edits, filters and congestion profiles designed to help clients model and route vehicle movements during the London Olympic and Paralympic games. These help Paragon users to prepare for the disruption and challenges such as automatically identifying delivery points that may be affected and understanding where the likely areas of congestion will be due to specific road-based events. They will also be able to identify and exclude those sections of the network likely to affect their delivery operations so that delivery vehicles avoid them on the day of the event.
Mapping enhancements continue within the Paragon user interface (Workbench). Users can now show information on a Google Map display automatically to give a fast, accurate and familiar visual reference.
For Paragon’s international clients, the new system enables language choice to be set at an individual user level, and the software now also supports “unicode” capability. This means that international clients wanting to host the routing and scheduling optimisation software centrally no longer need different servers dedicated to different regions. This can significantly cut central IT costs.
