Transportation management with vehicle tracking system

Today, with the increase in competition and the rapid progress of technology, companies need to renew themselves constantly. In this case, it is of utmost importance that the customer demands are met in a timely and complete manner at the lowest cost. Systematic vehicle routing optimization is required to plan the timely and cost-effective meeting of customers' demands for efficient management of warehouse management of large-scale companies using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Vehicle Tracking Systems (VTS) is a system that has GPS receiver and GPRS modem and enables the determination of instant speed and location information of all kinds of vehicles and directing this information to a center via GPRS modem. It is a system designed to collect and process data received from a center through a web service and to monitor and direct it by the user. For a company using ERP, a system has been designed by calculating the appropriate route with the ant colony algorithm to provide the most suitable route to the user in order to facilitate the shipment process for one or more vehicles simultaneously. VB.Net language is used. All the data received from the beginning and end of the transportation of a vehicle were processed and interpreted. The service application was written to save the data from the vehicle tracking system to the database. A separate service application has been written that processes the data sent by VTS of the vehicles that start the shipment process. A total of 3 separate applications were written. With the inclusion of vehicle tracking system in shipment management, shipment times were shortened, total fuel consumption decreased, performance evaluations of shipment personnel were reported, and communication problems between company warehouse and customers were largely resolved.