The biggest remaining challenge — missing and incorrect input data — can lead to highly misleading estimates. That’s why great visibility services are robust, expect errors, missing data and uncertainty — but still manage to provide valuable knowledge.
In this whitepaper, we point out these complications, so the reader is aware of them when selecting a real-time visibility vendor.
Chapters included
Key challenges We explain the type of complications.
Overcoming the challenges. Challenges are hard and being
able to overcome them makes the main difference in service quality between
various visibility providers.
Chapters included
Key challenges We explain the type of complications.
Overcoming the challenges. Challenges are hard and being
able to overcome them makes the main difference in service quality between
various visibility providers.
Key takeaways
Invalid input data
The top reason for invalid ETA is low quality input data, for example: ambiguous addresses leading to inaccurate or wrong stop coordinates, typos in given time slots, wrong assignments of trucks, last minute transport changes which are not recorded properly, or unstable or even missing telemetry data.
Overcoming the challenges
Even if all the necessary components of ETA calculation aren’t available, it is still possible to provide a good ETA estimate as long as the algorithms behind the calculation and supporting processes are designed to work with missing data, errors and uncertainty.
The top reason for invalid ETA is low quality input data, for example: ambiguous addresses leading to inaccurate or wrong stop coordinates, typos in given time slots, wrong assignments of trucks, last minute transport changes which are not recorded properly, or unstable or even missing telemetry data.
Even if all the necessary components of ETA calculation aren’t available, it is still possible to provide a good ETA estimate as long as the algorithms behind the calculation and supporting processes are designed to work with missing data, errors and uncertainty.
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