OWM for Transportation and Logistics
Breaking
new grounds through optimizing workforce management
High fuel prices and the growing need of globalization have make it difficult for the transportation
and logistics operators to reduce their operating costs and at the same time, increase their
operational effectiveness. Furthermore, there are safety regulatory issues, sovereign rights
on routes and disaster recovery planning that makes their problems even more challenging.
Pandemics like September 11 th in 2001, SARS in 2003, Asian Tsunami in 2004 and the potential
avian flu highlight the needs of having disaster recovery planning and robust staff scheduling
strategies. This post-modern dynamism coupled with the underlying uncertainty in transportation
and logistics (such as diversions and delays) requires new way of looking at achieving operations
excellence.
Unfortunately, with an increasingly specialized workforce, stricter work regulation and
stronger union pressures, it is becoming a challenge even to deploy sufficient manpower to
job duties. Without meeting the baseline requirement, it will be impossible to envision an
optimized workforce.
Historically, the industry focus has been on asset maximization through route planning and
space allocation. Such stove-pipe approaches are fast becoming meaningless due to the lack
of potential for huge quantum improvement. To scale to the next level of operations excellence,
it is evident that a more holistic approach has to be considered. Effective workforce management
serves as an integrated platform to tie the operations to the componentized optimization areas
well-established within the transportation and logistics industry.
OWM for Transportation and Logistics enforces full compliance to work
regulation and sets up the perfect platform towards an integrated approach
to the pressing issues in the industry. An industry-focused suite of workforce optimization
solutions, OWM TM brings operational excellence to the next level for the Transportation
and Logistics industry.
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