TPAC OnLine is a customizable modular operation support software package. It is provided on an industry standard platform and allows an organisation to streamline their business decisions by providing real-time operations information to the people who most need it.
It comprises of several different modules which can be easily tailored to an organisation's business processes.
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TPAC OnLine Fleet
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TPAC OnLine Business Alerts
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TPAC OnLine Contingency Planning
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TPAC OnLine Disruption Cost Analysis
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TPAC OnLine Maintenance
The key benefits of TPAC OnLine are
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Streamline Operations Up-to-date information is instantly made available to the people whose decisions are critical to the running of the business
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Lower Deployment Costs An average desktop PC with no special software is required for deployment to a client
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Powerful Reporting Managers can easily report on the businesses operational efficiency and manage where the transport fleet is
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Planning for the future A fully scalable platform means TPAC OnLine can grow as the business does
TPAC OnLine Fleet is used to give a Gantt view of up-to-date information tailored to business processes in different areas. It is fully customizable and available to people across different time zones around the world.
TPAC OnLine Fleet is configurable to show information in the way that is useful to different areas.
Figure 3. Operations style view displaying a single port's arrivals and departures by vehicle subtype
TPAC OnLine Business Alerts is used to ensure all information pertinent to operations is centralised in the one area. The central repository of information is in control of the IOC and only after alerts have been vetted will they be available to the organisation.
The process is
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Each department submits information they think will be of use to the organisation. Such information could be
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Bad weather is expected
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A maintenance problem means an vehicle is unavailable
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A catering truck has broken down, disrupting catering
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The IOC determines what is likely to affect the organisation and will either accept or deny the problem.
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The published alert is sent out to everyone who can instantly view it. The denied alert is given a reason and the creator of it is notified of this reason.
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The alerts can now be tracked as they unfold, until the alert is either automatically or manually closed.
The TPAC OnLine Business Alerts can be easily configured to cater for an organisation's individual set of Departments and Locations.
TPAC OnLine Business Alerts are built into TPAC OnLine Fleet. Alerts can be filtered and viewed by a customizable set of Departments and Locations allowing users to get only the information they require to do their job.
TPAC OnLine Contingency Planning is used with TPAC OnLine Business Alerts to report on issues before they happen. Alerts can be created before the event in a "What-If" scenario and if the event unfolds, the organisation has at its fingertips the action plan to mitigate the effect.
One the plan has been developed, it can be published as a report to all interested parties.
TPAC OnLine Disruption Cost Analysis is used to track and report the effect disruptions have on the operation of the transport fleet.
A report is available for viewing by the authorised management personell, and a CSV file can be downloaded for advanced reporting and graphing in an external tool such as Microsoft™ Excel.
TPAC OnLine Maintenance is a specialised module that gives a view of current, past and future maintenance events to allow for planning.
Information available shows individual sectors for a vehicle showing
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Accumulated hours and cycles to date for that vehicle
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Available ground hours
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Planned maintenance in that time
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Problems when maintenance is overdue
Specialized reports can be automatically generated for use by downstream systems.
TPAC OnLine is built on an industry standard platform.
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Java™ J2EE platform
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Oracle™ Database and Infrastructure
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