Route optimization suggestions for delivery team

Purpose

1. Automate route optimization suggestions for delivery teams to maximize efficiency, minimize fuel costs, shorten delivery times, reduce manual planning, increase delivery accuracy, and enable real-time automated adjustments based on weather, traffic, and metal order priorities.

Trigger Conditions

1. New delivery order placed in ERP or online shop.

2. Scheduled daily logistics batch at set time.

3. Updates in traffic or weather APIs.

4. Manual refresh request by dispatcher.

5. Exception events such as vehicle breakdown or customer address change.

Platform Variants

1. Google Maps Platform

• Feature/Setting: Directions API; automate optimized multi-stop routing using waypoints in API call.
  

2. Mapbox

• Feature/Setting: Optimization API; automate batch route computations for fleet with traffic-aware data.
  

3. HERE Technologies

• Feature/Setting: Routing API; automate dynamic route recalculations incorporating truck constraints (weight, size).
  

4. TomTom

• Feature/Setting: Routing API; automate route suggestions with delivery window constraints for metal orders.
  

5. Azure Maps

• Feature/Setting: Route API with waypoint optimization; automates delivery sequence.
  

6. ORS (OpenRouteService)

• Feature/Setting: /optimization endpoint; automate vehicle routing with built-in fleet balancing.
  

7. Routific

• Feature/Setting: Route Optimization API; automates route distribution directly to driver apps.
  

8. Onfleet

• Feature/Setting: Automation in dispatch dashboard; automate live reordering of routes for metal deliveries.
  

9. OptimoRoute

• Feature/Setting: Plan Routes API; automate uploads from ERP to optimize and assign delivery routes.
  

10. Route4Me

• Feature/Setting: Address/Less Optimizations API; automates creation of optimized routes from CSV or ERP.
  

11. Sygic

• Feature/Setting: Professional Navigation API; automate push of optimized routes to mobile driver apps.
  

12. Verizon Connect

• Feature/Setting: Route Optimization tool; automate route schedules from logistics data in CRM.
  

13. Trimble Maps

• Feature/Setting: Route Planning API; automate calculations for hazardous or oversized metal shipments.
  

14. Fleet Complete

• Feature/Setting: Dispatch API; automate dynamic route updates for changing orders or truck statuses.
  

15. Salesforce Field Service

• Feature/Setting: Automated Scheduling Engine; automate route planning embedded in service appointments.
  

16. SAP Logistics Business Network

• Feature/Setting: Freight Collaboration API; automate route optimization for supplier fulfillment automation.
  

17. Oracle Transportation Management Cloud

• Feature/Setting: Routing Engine; automate daily optimized routing for delivery teams.
  

18. Descartes Route Planner

• Feature/Setting: Route Planning API; automate data transfers for route optimization and real-time monitoring.
  

19. Locus

• Feature/Setting: Dispatch Management API; automate dynamic assignment and re-routing for last mile.
  

20. PTV Group

• Feature/Setting: xServer Routing API; automate batch and real-time calculation for multi-modal delivery.
  

Benefits

1. Automates repetitive manual route planning, saving labor.

2. Automation results in lower fuel/vehicle costs through efficient routing.

3. Real-time automated rerouting decreases delays from traffic or disruption.

4. Automated order priority handling ensures urgent metal deliveries reach first.

5. Automation improves on-time delivery rate and customer satisfaction.

6. Automator reduces planners’ workload, enabling logistics scaling.

7. Automatable workflows connect logistics platforms with core metal supplier ERP and CRM.

8. Automated suggestions support green logistics goals with less carbon per route.

9. Automating adjustments minimizes delivery errors from changing conditions.

10. Full audit trail via automation for continuous route performance improvement.