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Why use a Delivery Route Planning Software?
The Descartes delivery route planning software is ideal for route calculation of multiple drops and will help optimise and improve your planning
The delivery route planning software will;
- Enable service providers to achieve the highest levels of customer service
- Control and minimisetheir transportation costs as much as possible
- Transform your delivery service from a costly requirement into a customer service asset.
PLanning delivery routes with multiple drops is only as good as the route optimisation engine and the Descartes Route optimisation works with highly sophisticated mathematical algorithms along with the latest most up-to-date street and traffic data. Not all route planning and optimisation software tools are the same nor do they solve the same problems.
What to consider when choosing a Delivery Route Planning Software
You should first look for an optimisation tool that is designed to drive density, increase productivity and reduce miles, along with the number of vehicles, routes and deliveries that it can handle. The Descartes route optimisation engine can do all of these.
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Read our blog on six things to look for when choosing a Route optimisation Software.
These are all the other factors you should also consider when choosing a delivery route planning and route optimisation software for multiple drops:
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Sequencing - Multiple Stops
Will the delivery route planning software automatically place the deliveries and stops in an order that minimises distance while considering your customer's requirements?
The Descartes multiple stop route planning software considers all previous orders in the system and resources available before offering the optimal and possible delivery slots for any new orders. These can either be selected by the load planner or offered to the customer for self selection depending upon your sales solution.
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Swapping
Can the delivery route planning software easily move stops between routes, vehicles or days whilst still considering customer, vehicle and driver requirements?
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Pick-up and Drop-off
When an order is associated with two locations (picking up a product from one location and delivering it to another), will the route planning software arrange the pick-ups and drop-offs with vehicle capacity, customer requirements and driver efficiency in mind?
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Best Day Selection
Does the delivery planning software select the best day, route and sequence of deliveries within the schedule, in order to create optimal route density while still considering customer, vehicle, and driver requirements? Or only calculate a batch for the next day? The Descartes solution can do either.
An optimal multiple stop delivery route planning software, such as Descartes', will leverage your customers’ business priorities and one or more of the concepts above to solve the simplest to the most complex routing scheduling problems.
- Drive efficiency
- Reduce costs
- Improves productivity
- Enhance the customer experience
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Delivery Density
Ensuring that each delivery route has adequate density of deliveries and optimising the route travelled is vitally important, this function is carried out by Descartes advanced Route Optimisation Engine.
A company’s ability to continuously create reliable multiple drop delivery routes using fewer trucks, miles and drivers makes them more flexible, able to cope with changes in demand and keep costs low.
Why use Descartes Delivery Route Planning Software?
It takes industry knowledge, innovation and understanding of a customer’s challenges combined with great technology to deliver results. Descartes has been providing multiple drop route planning optimisation tools since 1985. We have been innovating and refining our routing capabilities to address a myriad of routing problems in diverse industries.
Our experience and attention to innovation has enabled us to provide solutions that address territory and strategic planning problems, dynamic route planning, same-day routing, multi-drop route planning as well as point-of-sale/appointment scheduling and much, much more.
Features & Benefits
Continuous background optimisation
Achieve more efficient route plans for your fleet than traditional batch-based optimisation techniques and provide costed delivery options at the point of sale in seconds.
High quality traffic data
Very accurate route times are possible using road speeds that are based upon the day, the time of day, the route taken and even the direction of travel, giving you confidence in the route schedule and your customers delivery times.
Integration with other Descartes fleet management and optimisation solutions
Descartes Route Planning Solutions have been designed to work with Descartes Mobile™ Applications, Transportation Management and Compliance Management solutions to provide a one-stop-shop for optimising in-house fleets and third party transport operations.
Wide range of solutions for all fleet operations
Descartes routing solutions can accommodate all fleet sizes and operations. From fixed static routes delivering to retailers to dynamic home delivery operations. Get more out of your fleet assets and reduce the cost of transport operations.
Cloud based software
Our fleet route scheduling Software is available over the internet wherever you have a connection, providing team access to our solution, working from any location at any time.
Customer Successes
“The Descartes Reservations™ and Descartes Route Planner™ solutions were integral to our strategy of offering more extensive, but unified , delivery services. The advanced optimisation capabilities and architecture of the Descartes solutions were critical to bringing new delivery service options to our customers in an economically feasible way. ”
Andrew Gay - Systems Manager
Delivery mileage reduced per annum 1.5m
Savings from fuel costs & vehicle servicing £1m
Increased delivery capacity 35%
“In the past year since having the Descartes' system our jobs per route has improved by just short of 10%.”
Martin Alldritt - Planning & Optimisation Manager
Jobs per route has increased 9.9%
Average mileage between jobs reduced
Improved Customer Service
“The advantages of automation are mainly the reduction of error rates along with a reduction of delivery miles & transportation costs.”
Tom de Rocker - Dispatcher
Reduction of error rates and transport costs
Reduced paperwork around returned empty crates
Improved Customer Service
“We now have a system which we can optimise the automation of the routes thanks to Descartes... We have improved service levels expected by our customer in full compliance with the time-windows.”
Gabriele Golinelli - Operations Director - Fidelitas
Customer Service levels improved
Employee shift scheduling has been simplified
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