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Why use a Delivery Route Planning Software?

Descartes' delivery route planning software is ideal for route optimisation for multiple drops and will improve your delivery planning and operational efficiency.

Delivery route planning software will;

  • Enable distribution-intensive companies to achieve the highest levels of customer service
  • Control and minimise their transportation costs
  • Transform the 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.

Descartes delivery route planning software will allow you to:

  • Smooth delivery demand across different days and geographies
  • Use your fleet across multiple depots depending upon demand
  • Utilise constant and continuous optimisation to select the best and most profitable delivery day for all your deliveries
  • Allow you to include collections or depot pick-ups/transfers as part of the delivery route

The number of daily delivery slots can be varied depending upon geography, fleet capacity and available vehicles, while also allowing the customer to select their own and best delivery dates and times at the point of sale. 

You will also be able to transition to shorter and more accurate delivery times with confidence. 

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What to consider when choosing a Delivery Route Planning Software

You should first look for an optimisation tool that is designed to drive delivery 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.

Read our blog on six things to look for when choosing a Route Optimisation Software.

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These are all the other factors to consider when choosing delivery route planning and route optimisation software for multiple drops:

  • 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?

    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 selectedautomatically or manually by the load planner or offered to the customer for self-selection online 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?

    This is a simple click, drag and drop in Descartes' delivery route planning system, automatically updating the route information.

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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 pick-ups and drop-offs in order with the 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, to create optimal route density while still considering customer, vehicle, and driver requirements? Or only calculate a batch with a fixed number of delivery slots for the next day? Descartes' solution can do either.

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  • Same Day Dispatch

    Can the delivery routing software cope with, and assign, new or emergency orders to routes that are already being executed and do so after considering what has already been completed of that route’s deliveries?

     

  • Continuous Optimisation

    Descartes' route optimisation engine continues to run from the moment it receives the first order to the last, this drives maximum efficiency, reduces time for delivery routes to be calculated and enables you to extend the cut-off time for new orders.

    Continuous dynamic route optimisation can use all of these concepts and provides all the benefits listed above.

     

    INFOGRAPHIC: Continuous v. Batch optimisation

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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 most complex delivery route scheduling problems.

  • Drive efficiency
  • Reduce costs
  • Improves productivity
  • Enhance the customer experience

Read more about Multiple Drop Route Planning

 

Delivery Density

Ensuring that each delivery route has adequate density of deliveries and optimising the route travelled is vitally important, but so is creating an even workload across your pool of drivers. These functions are carried out by Descartes' advanced route optimisation engine.

A company’s ability to continuously create reliable multiple drop delivery routes using fewer vehicles, miles and drivers makes them more flexible, able to cope with changes in demand and minimise costs.

 

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 solutions for over three decades. We have been innovating and refining our routing capabilities to address a myriad of routing problems in diverse industries and continue to invest in new and innovative technologies such as machine learning.

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.

  • Example - Daily Route & Load Planning

    As each new order is placed so the Descartes routing solution re-optimises the possible routes and vehicles in real-time, allocating resources in order to maximise operational efficiency. This continual optimisation, as orders are being taken, enables fleets to be fully utilised and only those delivery slots that are ideal for a delivery route and that can be fulfilled with current resources, are offered to maintain overall customer service objectives. Any over commitment is identified early so that additional resources can be hired or deliveries reallocated..

    Orders are visualised on a map within the software which considers the street level network and other parameters in order to build the delivery routes automatically. Dispatchers then still have full control to manage exceptions with easily draging and dropping stops either within route or between vehicles.

    Companies that have moved from 'manual route construction' to 'exception management' with Descartes' routing solution find that their route planning time can often be reduced to just a fraction of the time previously taken.

    Read how PPS saved 25hrs/week in planning time.

 

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Features & Benefits

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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.

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High quality traffic data

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.

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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.

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Wide range of solutions for all fleet operations

Descartes routing solutions can accommodate all fleet sizes and operations, from fixed static routes delivering for retailers to dynamic home delivery operations. Get more out of your fleet assets and reduce the cost of transport operations.

Cloud connectivity

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. 

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