Isotrak’s award winning Active Transport Management System (ATMS) lets transport managers see and measure their fleet operations, using satellite tracking feeds and vehicle telematics data. Having real-time visibility and tools that make sense of the big picture make it simple to run a transport operation more efficiently – saving money, improving customer service and reducing carbon emissions along the way.

ATMS is powerful but simple, accessed through a standard web browser. There’s no need to install and maintain dedicated IT hardware – Isotrak hosts and manages the entire system. Plus it’s international and perfect for global businesses.

ATMS is a proven transport business tool which ‘works your way’. It’s been built from the ground up by transport professionals for transport professionals. Years of experience have taught us that change is most effective when it happens one step at a time. Because ATMS is modular, we work with you to select product modules which target your immediate business goals.

This helps you to manage the change that comes with implementation, build an ATMS that suits what you most want to achieve, then identify where further savings can be made.

ATMS Structure Diagram



ATMS analyses satellite-tracked locations, feeds and telematics data, providing real-time visibility and measurement of fleet operations through tailored browser screens.

Isotrak’s modular architecture.

Live Management Update:

ATMS Live Management Update module provides a customisable dashboard to deliver the ‘live’ information that’s most important at any time a manager needs it. There’s no need to run a report – the information is always available.

• Lets managers build a bespoke dashboard to keep them up to date with the very latest fleet information – any measure is a mouse-click away

• Get information on CO2, fuel consumption, turnaround times, Plan vs Actual totals and live traffic RSS feeds making it easy to manage KPIs.

• Popular modules of ATMS can be managed via the Live Management Update – Resource Management, Vehicle and Trailer Tracking, Driving Style Management and Alerts can be received and updated in real time.

Resource Management:

Efficient transport operations require effective resource management. Using Isotrak’s ATMS Resource Management module, your transport managers can make the best decision faster, because they have all necessary information at hand.

• ATMS monitors actual performance against plan and provides pro-active management and analysis of real-time transport performance, making it easy to co-ordinate drivers and vehicles for optimum efficiency.

• The job management screen gives an overview of current resource allocation by job status, together with estimated arrival times and planned resources allocated to each job. Coloured bars provide a clear indication of current status.

• Express Allocation lets managers quickly find and deploy unallocated drivers and vehicles.

• Summaries of jobs, journeys or progress against plan can be shown graphically in an easy to view debrief record screen.

Route Planning and Scheduling:

Optimising route planning and scheduling is the essential first step that effects a transformation in your operation’s efficiency. ATMS optimises transport movements in vehicle fleets of all sizes and types, reducing guesswork and stress by matching resources to jobs more efficiently.

By building a collection of ‘templates’ (journeys which are tailored around days, depots, destinations, routes and expected service windows), transport managers can save a great deal of planning time, and instead focus on working smarter.

Each template is saved under a user-friendly descriptive name, containing as much or as little information as you wish. They are clearly listed for swift selection and application to repeat jobs while a flexible calendar and repeat options help eliminate duplicated effort with regular jobs.

If you have specific needs beyond this, Isotrak can supply market-leading planning applications – from Manhattan Associates, Paragon, Enterprise Software and more – integrated with your ATMS solution and delivered as a convenient, reliable hosted service.

Integration:

Integration is at the heart of everything we do. Many of our customers have systems which they’ve invested time and money in – we understand that, and our expertise means we can build on and enhance your existing systems with our own. We facilitate data flow and seamlessly match one system to the other, providing a fully integrated solution

Integrate Route Planning and Scheduling with your ATMS and the solution is delivered as a convenient, reliable hosted service resulting in exceptional benefits for your business:

• Ability to re-spin plans in response to late/early running
• Improve transport efficiency
• Reduce spot hire costs
• Improve service reliability
• Improve adherence to pre-agreed timeframes
• Reduce proportion of late deliveries
• Reduce cost, fuel consumption and carbon emissions by uncovering excess mileage
• Reduce transport costs (including agency costs) by increasing driver productivity

Integrate Yard Management with your ATMS and the solution is delivered as a convenient, reliable hosted service that gives you real time visibility of your assets both in the yard and out on the road.

• Improve dock management to avoid double handling and reduce congestion
• Optimise task assignment and resource utilisation to maximise yard truck (shunter) efficiency
• Enhance inventory management with visibility of what’s in the yard (down to SKU levels)
• Speed up gate processing and yard organisation by automatically assigning parking according to business rules

Integrate Digital Tachograph with your ATMS and the solution is delivered as a convenient, reliable hosted service offering you greater compliance with work time legislation:

• Ensure Driver Compliance (including Agency Driver Compliance)
• Automatic Login/Logout/On Break/Available/Driving record
• Direct feed of driver activity via ATMS through vehicle CANBus
• Instant alert of discrepancies
• Improved administration processes

Integrate Electronic Proof of Delivery with your ATMS and the solution is delivered as a convenient, reliable hosted service to provide excellent results:

• Collect information about the readiness of inventory through wireless terminals
• Monitor and control trips while also providing comprehensive EPoD at the delivery location
• Easily manage EPoD data including signature capture, barcode scanning and an option to photograph damaged or ‘tampered-with’ delivery items
• Help meet the challenge of delivering operational efficiencies whilst also keeping service promises in complex logistics operations

Vehicle and Trailer Tracking:

Isotrak’s industry-leading vehicle and trailer tracking gives you full visibility of your fleet from the big picture down to an individual vehicle. Monitoring overall progress instantly becomes easy, as does identifying specific problems and coming up with quick solutions.

ATMS provides real-time location monitoring using GPS satellite data, showing you all individual vehicle positions in real time on a ‘live data’ map. You can see at a glance where your vehicles are, and what they are doing. With powerful servers performing sophisticated analyses, distilling data into comprehensive but straightforward activity reports and real-time alerts, ATMS takes the effort out of measuring your transport business performance.

• See where they’re heading next, their ETA based on current progress and distances from destinations measured by road or as the crow flies distances.
• Set accurate polygonic geo-fences around depots or tower blocks to alert on incoming vehicles or when a mobile worker is entering a known trouble spot.
• Drill down into specific route analysis information for individual vehicles and see time spent at various pre-defined location types, while yellow triangles highlight time spent in restricted places that are not part of the planned journey.
• Zoom out in map view and ATMS automatically groups vehicles to within an area, making information easier to absorb.
• View and compare activity types across several vehicles, (a colour-coded chart provides an instant view)
• See the actual time spent in different activities using a traditional figure table.

For more information about our Trailer Tracking product, please download our Trailer Tracking sheet.

Driver Communication:

Effective driver communications are a vital part of transport efficiency. When your managers can push out instant plan amendments to account for new instructions or problems en route, the operation will cut down on delays, wasted journeys and errors – all of which adds up to big efficiency savings.

Isotrak’s ATMS Mobile Data Terminal (MDT) leads drivers through required job workflows and receives electronic manifests to guide jobs undertaken during the day. This replaces paperwork and mobile phones (providing major cost savings), to give a reliable communications path between vehicle and transport office. It provides a full range of communication options, including text-based information that can be extended with an additional hands-free voice communications option if required. Unlike other solutions, Isotrak’s module is simple to use and programmed to reflect your company’s own activities.

• The driver receives messages instantly and can respond when it is safe and legal to do so.
• ATMS keeps a log of all two-way message activity for audit purposes, and allows new messages to be sent direct from the message management screen.
• GPS feed – know where your mobile workers are
• Capture the information you need at Log in/out – including vehicle checks, ODO readings, text and voice messages, panic messages and work manifests.

Extended Capability: Phonebook Options: The MDT also facilitates two-way voice communications: drivers can report late arrivals using preset phone numbers, while managers can request backhauls and highlight traffic congestion.

Depending on the device, we can also offer up-scaled services through integration with one of our mobile data partners.

• Satellite navigation for route optimisation
• View Documentation for a quicker response to customer queries
• Scan Items to ensure that the correct item is being loaded and reaches its destination
• Electronically confirm delivery success or input a reason for a failed delivery
• Electronically obtain customer signature
• Scan documents on site so customer services are up to date with activity.

Driving Style Management:

Given the high cost of fuel for your transport option, what would you say to a 5% reduction in fuel costs. How much better if we told you that our customers have seen up to 19% fuel cost and CO2 savings when using Isotrak’s DSM to deliver best-practice driving?

Drivers can be trained to perform smooth acceleration and braking, optimise cruise control utilisation and avoid excessive idling. The ATMS driving style management module produces comprehensible debrief reports using red, amber and green colour-coding to recognise where superior skills already exist, and where further training may be required. The system’s red, amber and green coding system is controlled by threshold values that you set to reflect acceptable levels for your company.

ATMS provides a wide range of preset driving-style parameters, giving complete control over the contents of every debrief report. Metrics include fuel economy, harsh acceleration, over revving and idling time. The results are presented in clear, unambiguous driving style reports enabling constructive debrief discussions leading to objective recommendations for improvements.

The ATMS CANbus engine management module generates instant driving style reports that are proven to save fuel costs when integrated with daily driver debriefs.

Alerts and KPIs:

Transport and logistics are the industry in which measuring progress is crucial – from the operational measure of how close a truck is to delivery to a business target of cost, CO2 emissions or turn-around time. Isotrak ATMS is superb for providing accurate and detailed metrics, tracking your performance and providing the information in the most helpful manner.

• A Versatile Intelligent Alerting (VIA) system automatically notifies decision-makers if specific KPIs reach pre-set trigger values. The system can display on-screen alerts, and deliver them by SMS or email at any time of day or night. This enables swift and accurate intervention at all times, permitting managers to make changes rather than just report on them.
• Back-of-House module offers information on in-bound deliveries on a screen and sounds an alarm when a set distance away, enabling teams to be readied so vehicles are turned around efficiently.
• Simple colour-coded alerts help Back-of-House colleagues anticipate delayed inbound deliveries, and highlight excessive turnaround times.
• All Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) can be displayed in summary format, to provide an instant encapsulation of business metrics.
• Comprehensive KPI reports are available to drill down into specific performance areas, for example, ranking your drivers according to their compliance with best-practice driving styles.

Managed Services:

A logistics operation should be an expert in logistics – not in IT systems or telematics hardware. Isotrak provides a fully managed service for all of its products allowing you to focus on managing and improving your operation without the disruption caused by a failure from IT systems or hardware.

24×7 Help Desk Our SLA (service Level Agreement) is second to none. ATMS is supported whenever your trucks are running, and our helpline is staffed by experts.

Hardware Warranty & Replacement You won’t have to worry about making sure the system is working, we take care of it all.

Software Upgrades Working to a pre-agreed schedule we will keep the entire system up-to-date. We provide upgrades at no extra cost throughout the contract.

Service Level Agreement We guarantee levels of system availability, and our SLA is highly-regarded throughout the industry as the best available.

For more information see our professional services pages

Isotrak Transport Efficiency Analysis (TEA):

Isotrak’s unique fleet analysis tool, Transport Efficiency Analysis (TEA), allows us, and you, to model your transport operations, producing a cast-iron proof of business case. Each TEA shows immediately where, how and by how much there is scope to improve transport efficiency, based on actual observations of your company’s real-world transport operations, and bench-marked against thousands of current customers. This means TEA findings can be scaled up with confidence to encompass the whole fleet.

The report shows the projected savings for the entire fleet, as well as Return on Investment and cost neutrality time scales. It’s a powerful, and reassuring, case to present to the relevant decision makers within your business.