The benefits of scheduling your delivery routes are;
- Increased delivery density and improved utilisation of delivery vehicles and drivers,
- Resulting in lower cost per delivery and fewer miles per delivery
- Reliability of delivery routes that are achievable in the time,
- Customers’ goods are delivered in narrow time slots and on time
- Improved performance and customer satisfaction
- No over utilisation or over capacity of vehicles,
- Goods don’t have to be left behind resulting in disappointed customers
- Under utilised delivery vehicles add costs
- Advanced warnings of high delivery volumes so additional vehicles/staff can be planned for in advance.
- Reducing the miles per delivery also reduces the CO2 per delivery and thus is better for the environment too.
Descartes’ delivery route scheduling software works in conjunction with the route optimisation engine and recalculates not just the schedule but also the delivery routes, every time an order is taken.
The clever Artificial Intelligence (AI) Delivery Scheduling and Routing Software can also schedule deliveries over several days, helping to ensure optimal delivery schedules and routes are created. This is proven to be a better methodology than optimising a batch of orders just for the next day.
Being able to offer a narrow delivery window with a high degree of certainty that the delivery time can be met at the time an order is taken will give your company a competitive advantage. Not all customers want their delivery the next day and will often prefer them to be delivered on a day and time that suits them. Being able to offer the customer the ability to select their own delivery window from a selection the system has put forward, based on the current orders in the system will increase customer satisfaction. It can also help to ensure that all deliveries are costed and viable for your business.
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