Our customers have stated that the system pays for itself after the first year of deployment.

The return on investment can be measured by the direct savings in resource needs. However, there are many aspects providing high returns on the investment made in the development of the system that cannot be measured directly.

Increased planning and management speed allows the company to respond faster to market demands.

Our knowledge-based approach keeps planning knowledge within the company, making it a real asset, rather than relying on the individual knowledge of planners and managers that is always volatile and is linked to particular planners.

Our partnership approach, following sessions to acquire specific knowledge, provides learning for both partners: SISCOG learns yet another reality, gaining further experience to be used in improving both its products and it services; and planners are made more aware of their reality, of their problems and also of their solutions, raising their level of understanding of the planning problem to a new dimension. Planners are led to think about their decisions and, by being shown how scheduling entities interact, planners understand better the implications of the planning constraints, the reason why their strategies work or not, and how to improve use of resources. This will allow them to see the forest despite the trees and, therefore, to produce schedules and solutions that will keep on increasing the productivity of the railway operation.