Allocate field work activities for dispatch to crews in the field.
The constraint optimizer is a scheduling tool allocating field work activities for dispatch. The constraint optimizer determines the best solution based on resource and activity constraints such as qualifications, priority and travel distance. This scheduling capability helps back office management meet the challenges of dispatch planning, while ensuring field work spends more time on priority activities rather than driving between locations. When a schedule request is initiated, this optimizer uses data to match the best resources to activities and arranges the assignments in sequential order that is most effective, given the day’s constraints.
To determine assignments:
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the constraint optimizer matches resources to activities based on required qualifications and number of people
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the resource-activity are optimized and arranged to match based on activity priority, travel distance, and shift availability
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the constraint optimizer looks at various combinations of these assignments and arrangements to determine the best schedule solution
The best schedule is returned to the requestor, providing a sequentially ordered list of activity assignments for each resource.