In logistics, strategic route planning is essential for maintaining efficiency and profitability.
But it’s also time-consuming and complicated; so many routing engineers do it only once — or maybe twice — a year.
There is a better way.
DispatchTrack’s Strategic Planning radically speeds up reroutes — creating new baseline plans twice as quickly.
DispatchTrack’s algorithm factors in everything that goes into baseline route plans as well as daily delivery execution... both from the same platform.
With an optimized baseline route in place, you can easily make adjustments to make sure the routes are right for your business:
- Select individual stops to assign fixed days or trucks.
- Drag and drop stops between routes.
- Or auto route and let the system create an optimal sequence based on your parameters.
- Generating alternative routes takes only seconds, so you can ask "what if? as many times as needed.
- Once your routes are generated, you can drill down to details on each one, and make adjustments.
You can also maintain multiple plans in parallel to accommodate holiday spikes, special promotions, and more. As your business needs change, your route plans change with them—all in seconds with just a few clicks.
Reroute as many times as needed to ensure the lowest cost-to-serve and the highest profitability for each route. We even support multi-day routes and reloads.
Our hybrid routing model gives you flexibility in daily execution while maintaining efficiency. Set up fixed stops in a baseline plan and then dynamically route the other stops around those to keep critical customers happy while also creating highly optimized routes.
The result is smarter, faster, more profitable routing—in both planning and execution—for food distributors.