About Fleet Management

Fleet Management within Oracle Transportation Management offers a centralized solution for planning, executing, and monitoring private fleet operations. This functionality empowers you to maximize asset utilization, minimize transportation costs, and uphold service commitments. With Fleet Management, you can effectively coordinate your fleet’s resources, optimize routing, manage equipment and drivers, and gain end-to-end visibility into fleet performance. 

This help documentation guides you through the essential areas of fleet planning and execution. You will learn how to configure your fleet assets, define routing strategies, assign equipment and drivers, and maintain compliance with operational requirements. Key features include advanced optimization for fleet scheduling, real-time tracking of fleet activity, support for driver assignments and hours of service, and tools for analyzing fleet costs and productivity. 

The guidance provided in these topics equips you to streamline fleet workflows, minimize empty miles, meet customer delivery schedules, and ensure operational compliance. After reading this documentation, you will be prepared to implement best practices in fleet management, reducing inefficiencies while improving overall fleet performance. 

Planning Results

Once you perform the action Optimize Driver/Equipment Assignments the Planning Results will be generated. You can only view this page which summarizes the outcome of bulk assignment, key metrics such as the number of shipments selected, assignable, and failed to assign. It also shows the Total Costs before/after assignment resources, and distance metrics like Bobtail Distance, Deadhead Distance, Total Empty Distance, and Loaded Distance  to evaluate the efficiency of the planning run.

Driver Management

This section defines the characteristics and availability of drivers so that you can include them in the planning process:

• Optimization processes like Optimize Driver Assignments you can run to assign available drivers to the shipments.
• The planning results track the number of resources selected, assignable, and resources assigned multiple shipments during a bulk plan.

Resource Management

This section describes typical availability of resources such as drivers, within the application. It includes the Resource Schedule Profile which identifies which resource schedule should be considered within a bulk plan.

Power Unit Management

This section is handled by performing the action Optimize Equipment Assignment. This process ensures that the physical assets (trucks, tractors, etc.) are correctly matched and assigned to the shipments and drivers.

Dispatch Board

This section describes an operational tool which is focused on the execution of transportation tasks. Its primary function is to streamline execution by managing routes, schedules, and workforce activities, giving dispatchers the data needed to make informed, real-time adjustments and reroute around delays.

Visibility

This section provides you live updates on the location and status of shipments throughout the entire supply chain. It answers questions like "Where is my shipment?" and enables proactive exception management and data-driven decision-making by consolidating shipment data, driver status, and movement history into a single, unified view.

Driver Work Invoice

This is a document generated when you perform the action Generate Driver Work Invoice. It consolidates driver pay information based on their activities and can be used to transmit data to an external payroll processing system such as Oracle Incentive Compensation. The invoice's header fields are populated using data from the associated shipments.

Process Management

This is used to automate business logic by defining, executing, and monitoring workflows. It primarily uses Agents to watch for specific conditions such as events or triggers and then executes a series of predefined actions (e.g., sending an alert, re-rating a shipment, or assigning a resource). This ensures that tendering and tracking processes are consistently handled without manual intervention.

Power Data

Power Data is the central repository and configuration area within OTM where you can define and manage core system rules and master reference data. 

• Driver Management: Guidance for managing driver assignments, qualifications, and compliance with regulations.
• Resource Management: 
• Power Unit Management: 
• Fleet Configuration: Steps for setting up fleet resources, including tractors, trailers, drivers, and equipment types.
• Fleet Planning and Optimization: Techniques for optimizing route planning, load building, and fleet resource allocation.
• Fleet Execution and Monitoring: Instructions for dispatching, tracking fleet assets in real time, and monitoring transportation events.
• Fleet Costing and Settlement: Processes for tracking fleet costs, analyzing operating expenses, and managing settlement and billing.
• Maintenance and Compliance: Best practices for scheduling fleet maintenance, managing inspection records, and adhering to regulatory requirements.
• Reporting and Analytics in Fleet Management: Tools for generating performance reports and analyzing key fleet metrics.

Explore these topics to take full advantage of Oracle Transportation Management’s Fleet Management capabilities, enhancing your ability to deliver goods efficiently and cost-effectively.