Job Scheduling and OperationsPurpose
1.2. Automated route optimization enables dynamic scheduling in response to new job requests, cancellations, or staff availability changes.
1.3. Automating job allocation ensures the right personnel with correct equipment and skills reach jobs on time.
1.4. The automation can provide real-time, optimized directions considering traffic and road closures.
1.5. The purpose is to integratedly optimize company resources, boosting revenue, reducing administrative workload, and enhancing client satisfaction through prompt service.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Automation initiates upon an existing job update, such as rescheduling or cancellation.
2.3. Automator activates every morning to batch-optimize all unscheduled jobs for the day.
2.4. Automated sync occurs after workforce availability changes or time-off approval.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: Automate route optimization between multiple jobs via "optimize:true".
• Sample: Configure Directions API in workflow; retrieve route polyline and ETA per vehicle.
3.2. Mapbox Optimization API
• Feature/Setting: Automatable to compute travel times, waypoints, and optimal routes.
• Sample: Use POST /optimized-trips endpoint with job lat/lng in payload.
3.3. HERE Routing API
• Feature/Setting: Automator sets "routeType=fastest" for traffic-aware job routing.
• Sample: Configure Authentication and send stops as JSON input.
3.4. Route4Me
• Feature/Setting: Automated batch job scheduling using Route Optimization API.
• Sample: Call POST /api.v4/optimization_problem to push daily jobs.
3.5. Microsoft Bing Maps Truck Routing
• Feature/Setting: Automates route generation with vehicle dimensions and job sequence.
• Sample: Call /Routes/Truck API with job stops and commercial vehicle settings.
3.6. Salesforce Field Service
• Feature/Setting: Use "Optimize Routes" flow to automate field crew assignments.
• Sample: Enable Auto Schedule policies in Field Service Settings.
3.7. SAP Field Service Management
• Feature/Setting: Automated route planning using "Planning Board" API endpoints.
• Sample: Integrate schedule_job and update_route functions in automation cycles.
3.8. ServiceM8
• Feature/Setting: Automates day’s job runs and live traffic checks via jobs/route endpoint.
• Sample: GET /api/job_route/today for optimized job sequence.
3.9. Verizon Connect
• Feature/Setting: Automated vehicle routing through the "Routes" management API.
• Sample: Automate POST /api/routes to assign and dispatch optimized routes.
3.10. Smartsheet
• Feature/Setting: Automated triggers using Data Shuttle on new job rows.
• Sample: Apply workflow automation to push job locations to route engine.
3.11. Oracle Field Service Cloud
• Feature/Setting: Automates route calculation via "Routing Plan Parameters" service.
• Sample: Use Automatic Routing and shift-level optimization in Job Management API.
3.12. Fleet Complete
• Feature/Setting: Use "Smart Routing" API for ongoing dynamic reroutes.
• Sample: Call route optimization function on workforce or fleet data update.
3.13. Geotab
• Feature/Setting: Automatable route assignment and geofencing via MyGeotab API.
• Sample: Push jobs as waypoints in AddRoute API.
3.14. Skedulo
• Feature/Setting: Automated route suggestion engine for on-demand jobs.
• Sample: Configure "Route Optimization" automation within Schedule Console.
3.15. WorkWave Route Manager
• Feature/Setting: POST jobs for route optimization via PlanRoute endpoint.
• Sample: Automate PlanRoute call when job list updates.
3.16. Jobber
• Feature/Setting: Automatable scheduling workflow for mobile crews via Jobber API.
• Sample: Use /jobs endpoint, automate "route_optimize" on new jobs.
3.17. OptimoRoute
• Feature/Setting: Automate daily optimization via "/v1/plan" API.
• Sample: Schedule POST with today's job and driver data payload.
3.18. FLS VISITOUR
• Feature/Setting: Use REST API to automate allocation and route adjustments.
• Sample: Automated POST to /scheduling endpoint for faster allocation.
3.19. Trimble MAPS
• Feature/Setting: Automates commercial vehicle-specific routing via Routing API.
• Sample: Configure automated job deployments as “orders" to Routing Engine.
3.20. HyperTrack
• Feature/Setting: Automator leverages live ETA updates and real-time job route changes.
• Sample: Integrate "Assign" API to dynamically shift jobs to nearest crew in workflow.
3.21. FieldAware
• Feature/Setting: Automatable route optimization via "ScheduleFlex" API.
• Sample: Use /api/schedule/optimize on new job entries.
3.22. Zoho Creator
• Feature/Setting: Deluge workflow for routing automation, calling external APIs.
• Sample: Script calls Mapbox or Google API on form submit.
Benefits
4.2. Automation improves punctuality for plastering clients via optimized ETAs.
4.3. Automated workflows increase workforce utilization and productivity.
4.4. Automator reduces manual dispatcher workload for scheduling and routing.
4.5. Automatedly adapts to real-time changes, enhancing client experience.
4.6. Automating the process ensures scale: more jobs managed with fewer resources.
4.7. Automation supports business analytics with route data for continuous optimization.