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How Does Route Planning Software Work?

May 3, 2022 by David Edwards

When it comes to your organization’s bottom line, you want to be sure that you are doing all possible to obtain the finest conclusion. Whatever your industry, when you devote significant time and effort going to several countries, the costs quickly pile up.

Naturally, the first step should be to choose a solution that can decrease significant expenses and assist your organization in operating more efficiently – and this is where route planning software comes into play.

Route softwares, like Route4Me, provide several advantages to your organization; here are four to consider.

However, how does route planning software operate in practice? We all understand how critical and valuable it is, but how does it work?

How does it function?

Route planning software enables firms to design and schedule multi-stop delivery routes that are most effectively feasible through advanced algorithms.

Additionally, it is referred to as routing and scheduling software or route optimization software by others.

When all required factors and permutations are considered, it’s unsurprising that software-assisted route planning is far more accurate than manually designed routes.

That means you can dependably deliver products to consumers on time – creating happy customers. When you do this day after day for months and years, you gain those consumers’ loyalty and repeat business. That is not a trivial matter.

However, the major reason most companies engage in delivery route planning software in the first place is to save money.

Typically, automated route planning reduces your fleet’s total operating expenses by shortening the time and distance necessary to perform all deliveries.

Each needless mile you drive costs you $2.80, according to the National Private Truck Council’s cost-per-truck-mile statistics.

Even for a small fleet of twenty trucks traveling 70,000 miles per year, a 20 percent decrease in fleet miles corresponds to a savings of $280,000.

Many of our bigger clients report savings of over a million dollars in the first year and beyond. And all of these cost reductions are immediately reflected in the bottom line.

As remarkable as human brains are, they cannot compete with intelligent software and a fast computer for number crunching. Orders are put into the system using delivery route planning software.

Then, sophisticated algorithms go through all variables to generate routes that satisfy agreed-upon client needs while using the fewest time and miles possible.

In minutes, the program does what even the most brilliant transportation planner could not accomplish in hours.

Basic software or manual approaches such as Excel spreadsheets are inefficient and fail to account for crucial route-related parameters.

What does this imply for you? This suggests your fleet is operating at a higher rate than required. This requires adding trucks and drivers to handle these extraneous and expensive kilometers.

This implies you are unable to give accurate delivery timeframes to your consumers in a reliable manner.

Achieving delivery excellence is a challenge, and it will only become more so in the future.

Additional constraints come from evolving consumer demands – smaller, more frequent deliveries, quicker deliveries, and shorter delivery time windows – and a need for a more transparent delivery experience with visibility into in-progress routes and proactive notifications for delays.

Meanwhile, driver shortages, variable fuel costs, and more significant limits on urban deliveries continue to plague the industry.

Without sophisticated route planning tools, expenses rapidly grow, and it’s practically hard to determine where waste occurs.

That is why firms that operate delivery fleets cannot continue to depend on traditional routing techniques to compete with those continually reducing costs and boosting performance via this modern technology.

If your delivery route planning is not precise, you are squandering money, consumers, and competitive advantage. It is time to invest in delivery route planning software and establish a competitive advantage.

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