Railway companies are looking for an integrated planning system that spans from operations planning to costing and invoicing, and optimises resource utilisation. They want to transfer planning and performance data to their business systems in order to analyse costs and improve performance.

The Advanced Railway Planner (ARP), from Skyva International, allows railways to work more efficiently and provides total cost and performance transparency required for their success. This planning and operations management system is a complete planning suite tailored to the needs of modern railways. It automates and simplifies the planning and costing processes from operations management to operative planning. It is the first and only planning system for railways that communicates with business systems.
The integrated system improves communication between the infrastructure and the traffic providers, as there is a transparency of cost and performance. Resource utilisation is improved by using the modern methods of optimisation. ARP shortens the planning cycles of the railway and makes operators more responsive to customer requirements. The system integrates operations management and planning with business systems, creating one efficient and streamlined business process.
Skyva's ARP is based on its agent technology that uses generic business objects and an object-oriented framework. Skyva applications are configured to exactly match with the business processes of a company. Solution implementation time is significantly reduced, because skyva software combines the flexibility and adaptability of individual solutions with the advantages of standard software packages which are based on pre-fabricated components.
The Advanced Railway Planner is a very powerful solution, that allows modern railways to build the type of transportation solution that can be tailored to the specific business needs of their customers. Total cost and performance transparency are important for the efficiency of the modern railway and therefore also for their success.

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