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Cube Route Adds Support for Merchandisers and Mobile Workforce to Managed Logistics Service.


TORONTO Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing  -- Enhancements expand visibility beyond drivers and deliveries to sales agents/field service personnel

Cube Route, a provider of on demand logistics services, today announced it has added new features to its service to support resource planning Resource planning may refer to:
  • Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
  • Manufacturing resource planning (MRP and MRPII)
  • Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
  • Human resources (HR)
, tracking and routing for mobile workers including sales representatives, product merchandisers, and service technicians. These additions, which include dispatching, job planning, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example.  tracking and routing, enable service managers to gain better visibility and control of their mobile workforce while empowering mobile workers to optimally coordinate their own schedules with the delivery of assets or inventory.

"These enhanced features will enable service managers to be more efficient and productive in deploying resources in the field. They now gain all the advantages of powerful planning, dispatching and real-time visibility for their mobile resources that traditional delivery organizations have always benefited from," said Jeff Murphy, COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning.  at Cube Route. "With real-time visibility and a coordinated plan that ensures that the delivery of goods and activities of service personnel are in synch, organizations can improve their customer service while ensuring the optimal use of a field worker's time."

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foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer

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, retail and other sectors that require the coordinated delivery of assets and inventory with field services personnel it provides real-time visibility and coordinated enterprise management of the mobile workforce schedules with delivery operations.

The benefits of the Cube Route service for mobile workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space.  include:

- The ability to create and set a "coordinated" plan for the delivery of assets and arrival of service agents

- Maximized utilization of field service personnel

- Improved tracking of field activity

- Real-time visibility for mobile resource workers into delivery status

- Improved customer service through more accurate arrival scheduling

Cube Route's service provides an easy and affordable way to efficiently manage, track and monitor delivery and field service fleets in real time. It combines sophisticated tracking, planning and routing functionality with the simplicity of web-based service to provide dispatchers, managers and support agents with a real-time view of driver and/or and/or  
conj.
Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved.

Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing.
 field agent movement and order status across an entire operation. Using any wireless to web device, the Cube Route service drives out operational inefficiencies, cuts costs and improves overall customer service.

About Cube Route

Cube Route facilitates the management of the delivery process for transportation and field service organizations. Offered on a pay-as-you-go pay-as-you-go also pay as you go
n.
The system or practice of paying debts as they are incurred.



pay
 subscription basis, Cube Route's service maximizes operational efficiencies by enabling businesses to dramatically reduce costs and improve service. Cube Route's sophisticated routing, tracking and planning functionality is used to optimize optimize - optimisation  routes, manage mobile workers as well as track and monitor field assets in real time - at the lowest possible cost. Recognized for its innovative service, Cube Route was listed as one of the Top 25 Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma.  I.T. Up and Comers by Branham, and named to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 as well as list of 100 Great Supply Chain Partners by Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies. For additional information on Cube Route and how its on demand logistics service and platform can impact your organization, visit www.cuberoute.com or call 1-877-227-6883.
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