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Paragon Resource Manager - transportation management software
Resource Manager is Paragon's transportation management software module which enables transportation resources - drivers, tractors, trailers and straight-trucks - to be managed effectively.
This transportation management module adds a further dimension to Paragon's planning and optimization capabilities. It provides a convenient facility for storing and managing information about driver shift patterns and truck availability, and integrates this with Paragon's transportation planning and optimization process. This means that Paragon schedules can be created that match the specific driver shifts and trucks available, and historical performance can be monitored, for example in relation to drivers' hours regulations.
Resource Manager holds transportation management information such as forward availability of drivers, tractors, trailers and straight-trucks, including optional agency resources. Agreed driver shift patterns and truck off road days can also be set up.
This provides the day to day resource data that enables the Paragon optimizer to calculate routes and schedules that match fleet availability and the shifts planned for each driver.
On completion of each day's schedules, the driving time, duty time and working time incurred can be recorded in Resource Manager so that histories and cumulative totals can be monitored and reported.
As a multi-user SQL database, Resource Manager is also easy to keep up to date and can be accessed by users in different departments as necessary. By providing day to day resource data at individual driver/tractor/trailer/straight-truck level, it also provides the required input for Fleet Controller - Paragon's fleet management software - providing the link between the Paragon-planned routes and the individual trucks being tracked.
Crucially, Resource Manager also calculates each driver's current rolling average weekly working time, so that the Paragon optimizer can give less work to drivers that are ahead, and more work to drivers that have fallen behind. This automatic process helps transportation managers to allocate even workloads to drivers.
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