ARM Route Management for Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200

If your company regularly delivers rental or sale equipment to your customers, or if you perform regular equipment servicing, you know the importance of efficient and flexible routing. An efficiently designed route saves valuable time, balances drivers’ work loads, reduces overtime, minimizes fuel costs, and enables better delivery predictions.

ARM’s Routing System offers this and much more. Using a graphic, interactive routing grid, you can quickly establish routes and stops along that route. Inserting a new stop or deleting a stop is quick and easy. With an interface to Microsoft MapPoint providing point-to-point driving instructions is a simple task. Comprehensive management reporting, and the total integration with ARM’s rental management, inventory, and core accounting functionality results in a highly efficient business management solution.

Quick Information and Entry Systems

Routing Dispatch Center	The Routing Dispatch Center is the hub of activity in the ARM Routing System. From here you may create and maintain routes and view routes and stops in a simple, logical way. The Dispatch Center is laid out in a grid type format. The left hand column is the ROUTE column. Stops are oriented in rows running left to right across from their related route. Creating routes and adding stops to those routes is an intuitive, straightforward process. A Routing Dispatch Inquiry menu option allows view-only access for the sales and customer service staff.
Quick Route Entry	The Quick Route Entry program is a fast and efficient way to enter route information, if you have already sorted delivery/pickup tickets by route and stop. Once you have the documents in the order desired, simply create a new route and either scan (via bar code reader) the contracts onto the route, or manually assign the contracts to the route. Routes entered here are visible and maintainable through the Routing Dispatch Center.
Contract Routing Inquiry	Contract Routing Inquiry provides a quick way for your dispatcher to ensure that contracts scheduled for delivery on a specific day are not overlooked. The contracts scheduled for delivery on the date you indicate, but are not yet routed appear in red, those already routed appear in green, and contracts that have been changed and not yet reprinted appear in yellow. Double clicking on a contract launches Contract Inquiry enabling the entire contract to be viewed. Dispatchers can create a new route directly from this screen. The screen automatically refreshes every 15 seconds, continuously providing up to date information.

Features

Microsoft MapPoint Interface	Using MapPoint, you can print a detailed map of the entire route, or just for selected stops, directly from within the Routing Dispatch Center.	Establish pickup/delivery and service routes	If you perform routine service on your rental items while at the customer’s site, you can assign a cycle code to a service route indicating the number of days between cycles and have ARM automatically create the route for you at the specified interval.
Routing Worksheet shows contracts requiring routing aids the dispatcher	Space is provided on the worksheet for the dispatcher to fill in the Route Number, Stop, and Truck.	Store valuable data about your drivers and vehicles	Enter driver’s license number, contact phone and more for each driver. Maintain license plate number, VIN number, date of last oil change and more for vehicles.
Stops may be designated as contract or non-contrac	For contract stops, ARM brings in the customer’s name, address, purchase order number, order total, COD amount, etc., saving valuable data entry time. Simply fill in the latest stop time if necessary and the stop is created.	Choose your own color legend for the buttons on the grid	Use green for completed stops, and red for late stops to make the stop status stand out!
Easily compare route weight to vehicle capacity weight	ARM summarizes the total route weight and the maximum carry weight for each route to ensure trucks are safely loaded.	Easily insert new stops in a route, move or delete an existing stop	Reorder the stops, add or eliminate stops without scrapping the entire route.
Routing Dispatch Inquiry screen offers anyone a view-only look at the route schedule.	Provide maintenance function only to your dispatcher, while enabling salespeople to easily check the status of deliveries.	Plan routes days in advance if desired.	Each route is assigned a date, making it easy to plan future routes.
Routing can be performed for all warehouses or each warehouse independently.	If you deliver from multiple locations, routing by warehouse is a necessity.	Print delivery/pickup tickets and any contract instructions directly from routing system.	Customer’s special instructions can be printed and included with the delivery/pickup tickets.

Screenshots

	Routing Dispatch Center		Route Maintenance
	Route Maintenance – Additional		Color Legend (to change on screen button colors)
	Contract Routing Inquiry		Quick Route Inquiry
	Delivery/Pickup Code Maintenance		Delivery Vehicle Maintenance
	Driver/Helper Maintenance		Driver/Helper Maintenance License Information
	Service Cycle Maintenance