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| Match Advice® |
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| Power-to-Load Optimization: Maximize Contribution Per Truck Per Day. |
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| What is Match Advice®? |
Match Advice is the industry’s premier power-to-load match optimization program. It’s the first of its kind, introduced by IDSC in 1978. Match Advice makes the extremely complex process of load planning more efficient by providing load planners with real-time optimized solutions and guidance on dispatching practices to help make the best decisions on driver work assignments.
Power-to-load match optimization is the most technologically advanced approach to systematically assigning the most profitable trucks with the most profitable loads—with every dispatch.
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| How does it work? |
Match Advice integrates seamlessly with your existing dispatch and mobile communications systems for real-time or on-demand data transfer and capture. Match Advice is integrated into your host computer to operate as a “black box”. The capacity load information is extracted from the host computer and sent to the Match Advice server. This entire process happens automatically with the option for the load planner or dispatcher to review the solutions prior to the assignment or have the loads pre-assigned automatically.
Match Advice understands that velocity and utilization are key when considering each truck with each load. By using a global optimization, Match Advice sees across boundaries to find the best power-to-load match without being restricted by state borders or geographic regions.
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| How will Match Advice increase revenue and decrease cost? |
Match Advice increases loaded miles per truck per day by 10% by taking full advantage of all opportunities, including those in neighboring regions, and while satisfying customer requirements and driver needs. This provides optimum balance between waiting for an assignment and running empty miles. It also minimizes the number of service failures for the system over time and equalizes driver miles over time.
Match Advice specializes in real-time optimization of the power-to-load match to increase capacity utilization and reduce empty miles by as much as 15%. Match Advice considers all key factors including driver hours, customer requirements, geographic restrictions, driver home, profitability, and more to: increase load ratio to reduce empty miles, maximize profit by matching the most profitable truck with the most profitable load, keep customers and drivers satisfied, and ensure you get the most out of your assets.
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| What are some of the unique functionality features of Match Advice? |
A feature unique only to Match Advice is the ability to integrate with IDSC’s network design solution, Netwise®. This allows Match Advice to use forecasting data from the Netwise engine and to use “yield” as one of the criteria for profitability measurement.
Match Advice considers the most comprehensive real-world constraints and business rules to include, but is not limited to:
Time Windows (Pickup and Delivery)
Location Information
Driver and Power Information
Customer Requirements
Geographic Restrictions
Driver Hours of Service
Driver Time Home
Profitability
Power Division Compatibility
Load Division Compatibility
Area Compatibility
Multiple Fleet Optimization
Multiple Assignment/Tour Generation
Infeasibility Explanations
Appointment Scheduling
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| How is Match Advice implemented and supported? |
Match Advice integrates seamlessly with your existing dispatch and mobile communications systems for fast implementation and for maximizing the return on your technology investments. IDSC offers best-in-class customer support—from implementation, to training, to compliance guidance, to day-to-day issues, to new release roll-outs. Every customer is assigned to a customer account manager to ensure appropriate attention and satisfaction. Online support is also available for documentation downloads, customer forums, and Q & A. The IDSC annual users conference offers several sessions on getting the most out of Match Advice, industry-experts speak on current issues, power-users pick up and share tips & tricks and customer’s ideas are collected for future product versions.
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| How is Match Advice different from other solutions? |
| > Continuous Product Improvement and Innovation |
IDSC has specialized in profit improvement technologies for the truckload carrier for over 25 years, serving customers representing over 70,000 power units and the "Top 100" carrier market. IDSC is recognized as a pioneer in the industry and for developing innovative software technologies that include the first power-to-load match optimization introduced in 1978 and the first fuel optimization program introduced in 1994. IDSC is committed to providing customers with a strategic advantage by accelerating profitability through the use of optimization-based decision support planning and execution software. Every solution from IDSC is engineered with over 100 years of industry expertise combined with the most sophisticated information technology.
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| > Robust Reporting |
 Match Advice provides robust, on-demand compliance reports allowing management to easily track system usage and value. Compliance reports can be generated by geographic area or by load planner to measure success and maximize continuous improvement.
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> Seamless Integration to Dispatch and Mobile Communications Systems |
 All of IDSC’s solutions are pre-integrated to industry leading dispatch systems (Tom McCleod Software, Innovative Computing Company, Maddocks Systems, Showme Software & TMW Systems) as well as industry leading mobile communications systems (Qualcomm, Aether). A seamless integration results in a fast and worry-free implementation—and a faster return on investment. IDSC also offers integration to custom systems as well.
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| > Netgraf Graphical Information Display |
Your solutions are powerfully displayed with Netgraf, IDSC’s universal graphical interface, allowing you to get a real-time global view of all activity or to zoom in on a single asset. Netgraf allows you to easily see the current balance of capacity and demand while showing the current status and location of all powers and loads.
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| > Integration to IDSC Product Suite for Greater Synergies |
As with every software module from Integrated Decision Support, Match Advice integrates with our entire product suite for a complete end-to-end planning and execution transportation management system designed to accelerate the profitability of your fleet. For more information, contact us toll-free at 800-401-6682 or email us at schilinski@tmwsystems.com.
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