Mapping & GIS
We use mapping tools for analysis and visualisation, and for preparing geographic data for modelling within consultancy assignments - they enable various logistics network design and location analysis such as:
- Facility relocation and weighted "centres of gravity"
- Visualise size of flows
- Allocate customers between fulfilment centres or depots
Read our talk through of a typical logistics mapping project.
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We have also helped clients in sales and marketing:
- Identifying customer hot spots
- Prioritising sales leads
- Competitor adjacency analysis
And in areas such as managing territories for field engineers.
What is Maptitude and what else can it do?
Maptitude Geographic Information System (GIS) software is cost-effective comprehensive desktop mapping software from Caliper. With Maptitude you can:
- Know exactly where your customers are and what sites are best for your business
- Identify hot-spots, geographic patterns and trends that cannot be seen in database tables and spreadsheets
- Use demographic data to model what additional business is likely to look like for your company
- Ask questions of your data based on its location, specific attributes and/or what else is in the vicinity
- Enhance your reports and presentations with maps and charts
You can see some of the other imaginative analysis and presentation options in Maptitude here on Caliper's website.
Maptitude Training
Maptitude includes extensive geographic data so you can get started as soon as you install the software. You can learn how to use Maptitude yourself - there is built-in help, the user manual is also comprehensive including many tutorials, and then there are plenty of helpful videos on Maptitude's site and on YouTube. However many people find that a more time-effective method is to undertake training.
Aricia provides UK-based
aimed at getting you started with Maptitude and more tailored training for specific needs. Aricia's training is suitable for business users who need to create maps and analyse data in a geographic way, but who are not GIS experts (and don't particularly want / need to be!). The training is a mixture of some subjects that are covered in depth and awareness of other features so that the user can return to them as required.
Or, if you need assistance with something specific, we can help you with on-the-project coaching, so you come away with useful results immediately. Minimum 2 hours (=£220+VAT) or pro rata - we try to keep Friday mornings free for this.
Maptitude Tips
We usually change one of the tips every week or so:
Tip A: If you wish to allocate customers to their nearest depot, you can create Drive Time Influence Areas with Streets, and then “tag” customers with the result. Or you could run a Distance & Travel Time Table and use the minimum time or distance from that.
Tip B: Incorporating web imagery (for instance a satellite view) in your map can be really useful for checking locations or locating by pointing for those postcodes that just won't geocode automatically - perhaps a brand new postcode for that DC that’s in build right now. Or in my case today, identifying newer warehouses by seeing that the location is apparently in a field!
Tip C: There are various info tools in the little Tools toolbar. With the info tool (a little letter i), if you drag your mouse on the map over a couple of points, you can see the data for both. There is also a multi-layer info tool - if you click on the map you can then see the data at/nearest to that point for any visible layer.
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