MapTours
Overview
MapTours is a visually interactive system for scheduling, building and tracking continuous moves for an in-house fleet, dedicated commercial carrier fleet or for creating continuous moves for your commercial carriers.
Features
Real-Time TMS/ERP Integration
Using state of the art web-service technology, MapTours works with your TMS or ERP to understand your available loads to schedule, build, track and maintain any and all continuous moves.
Automated Continuous Moves
Using internal algorithms that manage Hours of Service, track pickup and delivery requirements, Sky Blue builds achievable, legal continuous moves.
Continuous Management
Using state of the art web-service technology, MapTours works with your TMS or ERP to understand your available loads to schedule, build, track and maintain any and all continuous moves.
Tour Tracking
Using real-time updates from your carriers’ satellite tracking system, Sky Blue allows you to proactively monitor and adjust your continuous moves to ensure maximum performance and dependability.
Reporting
Breeze into your complex dedicated carrier reporting. Perform complex cost distribution management for all locations that participate on the continuous move.
Carrier Management
In-house carriers, dedicated carriers or your preferred carrier base can log in to the system and securely manage their own continuous moves. Now all parties can access the database to oversee forward looking moves in order to build new continuous moves.
Benefits
Cost Control
Dedicated Carriers easily keep track of dedicated carrier mileage minimums, from start to finish and back again. Active management of minimums helps avoid the wasted minimum mileage cost.
Cost Savings
Now you can negotiate continuous move rates that take advantage of keeping the carrier moving. Use continuous moves to take care of freight that historically has been hard to move and thus costly, negotiating significant savings.
Sustainability
The average truck drives 10% of their mileage empty, placing 280 tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Large companies with many locations and a diverse customer base can reduce empty miles by 70% or more.
Retain and Capture
In a tough environment, it pays in many ways to retain the capacity you already have. MapTours will reuse the truck that is coming inbound and will ensure the truck delivering close to your location with one of your delivery’s deadheads to you and not your competitor. Lower your carrier’s deadhead and everyone wins.
Customization
You have the loads – We create the Tours.
Although the base algorithms and visibility tools are in place, continuous movement or Tours is a complex solution which must be modeled correctly to your specific business. At Sky Blue, we have highly advanced algorithms and intelligence built in, ensuring that technology works for you rather than you working for the technology.
