Gis

Geographic Information System

4- In the Apex Office Supply company article, the Apex is a small office supply company which was easy to process orders by hand. It was then up to the drivers and delivery manager to decide how to organize the deliveries. But as the company grew, this process take more time and the company is wasting fuel everyday. So Apex took the decision to install the Arc Logistics Route software to help in delivery routes based on location of the customers. It was a perfect idea for the company to offer services for the customers that had never considered before. Apex has created a macro to run this software to create routes and manifests after the company staff has left for the day. So routes are created now with the most optimum delivery following business rules for the vehicles and stops.

Visibility of vehicle locations, activities, and costs allows the company to analyze operations quickly and accurately. Even the truck loading are more efficient now with the using of bar codes which tells you if there is an error in the scan by the alarm system. And in the delivery process it tells you the style of the items. Now Apex is confident that expanding its delivery organization can be accommodated easily with the software so now they load according to manifest, saving time.

The benefits and the value that the GIS added to this business is operating times, capacities, driver breaks, and operating costs. An example of operating capacities is the company has reduced fuel usage by 4.3 percent, saved 18 percent in labor hours, and cut out 7.4 percent other hours as nonproductive. Organization has realized significant return on investment by using GIS for fleet management. As functionality increases and costs decrease, more organizations will reap significant benefits.

In the food producers Market article after the collaboration between a university and organization of development in agriculture food, producers, buyers, sellers, and distributors have now an online marketing tool. The goal was to provide a one stop shop for strategic marketing information for producers and food retailers alike. As a result, it provides the users the ability to query various types of data and produce reports and maps. Another goal in organizing the information is to let the users to visualize strategic marketing information. They designed a website to find supply chain partners, improve knowledge of where food consumers are located, and the purchasing decision. In this software mapping and data entry processes were built using Active Server Pages and ARC IMS.A link to the mapping page enables users to map business locations or display detailed information incorporating