Segregating Duties in Operations

As an ‘Operations guy’, I am asked periodically, “What should we do to become more efficient in Operations?” My answer is typically “Become better dispatchers”, but what does that mean exactly? Many people do not understand specifically what it entails to work in Operations. Most companies fail to understand how each individual role plays an integral…

Ticket Types for Oil Field

While we were assisting on a TMW implementation for one of our clients, a problem arose for which there was no current solution.  Oil Field Order Entry did not have a way to distinguish the different types of tickets that oil haulers were getting.  There were tickets that were measured using a flow meter, tickets calculated based on the height of the…

Hear From Some of the Team

Interested in learning a little more about some of the team members at ASR? It just so happens that one of our co-owners, Scott Applefeld, has his own blog called Technology in Transportation. Check out his latest post: Troubleshooting TMWSuite Database Performance I’m occasionally asked to troubleshoot database performance in TMWSuite, usually by new customers experiencing slow performance…

Projects at ASR

The staff at ASR Solutions is always trying to think of new ways for their clients or the transportation industry to better itself. Check out the projects that some of our consultants have been working on. A recruiting website focused entirely on the transportation industry, able to combine detailed information from drivers and recruiters to find…