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COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System. Andrew Dyment Adyment@commandalkon.com (905) 870 1410. Session Objective.

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COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

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  1. COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining &Tuning Your System Andrew Dyment Adyment@commandalkon.com (905) 870 1410

  2. Session Objective • This session is designed for customers that have implemented Optimization in their operations and are looking to keep their costs and configuration current and fine tune their results. This session will also benefit those who have not implemented Optimization yet, but would like to see more of the technical aspects to tuning the system. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  3. Agenda • Maintaining Your COMMANDoptimize server • Maintaining your data • Tuning Your COMMANDoptimize systemAll In 50 minutes MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  4. Maintaining The Server • Take backups of the COMMANDoptimize server-CSIS folder-Ortec FolderGiven the above , the rebuild is a straight forward and short in duration • Institute a periodic reset/reboot of your server • Be on a regular update process MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  5. Maintaining The Server • Enable CSIS’s Queue Monitor MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  6. CSIS’s Queue Monitor • Located on your Optimization server • Use the same eMail setting as your COMMANDfleet server • Configuration Program is usually in the CSIS->Configuration folder • MSMQ’s are used to move COMMANDnetwork messages between CmdSeries and OCMI • If the messages are being created but not consumed, that is a indication that a module is not running • Use a threshold of 50 messages to start with MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  7. Maintaining The Data • Loading Speed Setup • Plant Loading Speed • Projects • Item • Resource Attributes • Employee • Truck • Map Pages • Costs MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  8. Maintaining The Data • Loading Speed Setup (CmdSeries Files->Plant and Delivery) • Load time is calculated Overhead + (LoadSize*Per Unit Time) • Mix time in Yard is the Post Load Time • Should be assigned to your plants • Should be created for your longer loading mixes • Be careful and use actual plant performance MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  9. Maintaining The Data • Plants-Loading Speed Code MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  10. Maintaining The Data • Projects-GPS MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  11. Maintaining The Data • Projects- Product plant availability MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  12. Maintaining The Data • Projects-Priorities MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  13. Maintaining The Data • Item-Constituent Costs MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  14. Maintaining The Data • Item-Use Order Entry to view MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  15. Maintaining The Data • Resource Attributes CS08 2.13 MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  16. Maintaining The Data • Employee MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  17. Maintaining The Data • Employee (CS08 2.13) MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  18. Maintaining The Data • Truck Alternate Capacities MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  19. Maintaining The Data • Truck Attributes (CS08 2.13) MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  20. Maintaining The Data Order Entry- Schedule Requirements MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  21. Maintaining The Data Map Pages Setup • Comm Process to update Map Pages • Parameters are tuned • If you move a plant, get new default times • If you add a plant, get new default times MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  22. Maintaining The Data Costs MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  23. Costs • Base all costs on real data • Have an excel Spreadsheet where you can plug in financial report • Be careful assigning cost at the individual truck level • Better to assign costs to Truck groups • Understand effect of day costs MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  24. Day Costs • The fixed cost that is attributed to bringing in an additional truck. • Do not include one time weekly benefit charge. • Include Daily benefit charge • Do not include all the minimum hours • Include Minimum hours – Ave RTT MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  25. Tuning COMMANDoptimize MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  26. Tuning Your System • Need Baselines! • Need Targets! • Need a process to bridge your Baselines to your Targets • Need to tune the Optimizer to reflect our current efficiency • Need to monitor your results • If you are not doing the above, Go no further MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  27. Tuning Agenda • Why do we need to continually tune COMMANDoptimize? • Who should be tasked with the role? • When should we review the settings? • Where are all the tuning parameters? • How do you tune the system? MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  28. Who should Tune COMMANDoptimize?-One person-Champion -Full understanding on what goes into generating the plan MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  29. When should we review the settings?-it is not your settings, but your results that need reviewing.-if you see an opportunity MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  30. OCMI Settings Break Push Out – Minimum amount of time before a tasked truck is available - 5 minutes is a good starting point MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  31. OCMI Maximum Route Distance • All plants further than this setting are automatically forbidden by the optimizer • If all plants are forbidden, then the closest plant is required MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  32. OCMI End Of Day Task • When a truck is put on this task, the optimizer consider the driver unavailable for the remainder of the day MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  33. CM-INI Files INI files – Optimization Server Tips.ini TipsLocal.ini MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  34. TIPS.INI Parameter: MaxFreeVehicleTime This parameter determines that amount to yard time a truck may have until it starts to calculate a cost. The tuning of this parameter will mitigate washing local trucks out and deadheading foreign trucks into yard. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  35. TIPS.INI Parameter: WeightRestVol This parameter specifies the factor applied to the remaining quantity of an order once CM starts to consider the order’s next load. It is based on the idea that it is preferable to spread the delivery of an order over a smaller number of trucks even if this would mean waiting for larger trucks, so that final “under-sized” loads are minimized. If the parameter is set below 0, CM will focus more on getting the current load scheduled MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  36. TIPS.INI Parameter: WeightFollowUpDelivery This parameter specifies the factor applied to the lateness cost for loads that are not the first of an order. This parameter is based on the idea that once deliveries have begun on an order, subsequent loads should be subject to even higher lateness penalties than usual. The higher this parameter, the less CM accepts lateness between deliveries of an order. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  37. TIPS.INI Parameter: NOrderForMatching This parameter specifies the number of ‘next’ loads that are taken into account when deciding which truck and plant should be scheduled for the current load. This parameter highly influences performance – the higher the number the slower the performance MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  38. TIPS.INI Parameter: LatenessSteps LatenessSteps: The number of steps to factor into the lateness calculations LatenessStartPointX: LatenessValueX: Values used to plot lateness graph and calculate lateness amount to be used in calculations MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  39. TIPS.INI Parameter: CorrectionCostCostPerHour Factor used to multiply hourly cost for rental trucks in real-time scheduling to decrease usage of rental trucks once they report in service. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  40. TIPS.INI Parameter: IgnoreFixedCostPeriodRealTime When this value is set to 1 the daily fixed cost will be ignored for the current day plan. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  41. TIPS.INI Parameter: CostForNewOrderForTruck Cost applied to vehicles that has not been to the jobsite already. The higher the value, the more trucks that have been to the jobsite will be favoured MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  42. TIPS.INI Parameter: DelayForDrivingEmpty This parameter specifies the extra time for deadheading trucks from one plant to another to decrease the likelihood of suggesting deadheads. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  43. TIPS.INI Parameter: DelayForBusyTruck This parameter specifies the minimum time that CM calculates for a truck’s return time. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  44. CM System Administration Parameter: Call in Report – Driver prepare time Amount of time that the call in times must compensate for a driver to be inservice from the call in time. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  45. CM System Administration Parameter: Time from which home location will must be taken into account This is the time of the day where the Optimizer will put more emphasis on bringing trucks back to their home yard. MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

  46. Please Complete Your Evaluation • Be sure to circle the session you are evaluating on the back of your card • MANAGEMENT (Track Name) • MGT-005 (session code) • Maintaining and Tuning COMMANDoptimize (session title) • Thank You! • All breakout session materials can be accessed at:www.commandalkon.com/cc2010/update/index.htm   MGT-005 COMMANDoptimize: Maintaining & Tuning Your System

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