Route optimization for deliveries

Purpose

1.1. Automate route optimization for delivery fleets in household goods wholesale to minimize travel time and costs, maximize delivery efficiency, and ensure timely deliveries.
1.2. Automatedly allocate orders to vehicles considering vehicle capacity, route constraints, and delivery time windows.
1.3. Automate re-routing in real time to handle delays, cancellations, or urgent priorities, using dynamic data.
1.4. Improve customer satisfaction through automation of accurate ETAs and proactive notifications.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New order or batch of delivery requests created in Order Management System (OMS).
2.2. Update to order (address, delivery time, or cancellation) detected in ERP/OMS.
2.3. GPS-based status change (e.g., vehicle starts route; delivery completed).
2.4. Manual trigger for emergency route re-optimization (weather, vehicle breakdown).
2.5. Integration event from external partners or carriers for delivery/assignment automation.

Platform Variants

3.1. Google Maps Platform
• Function/API: Directions API & Distance Matrix API — automate route generation and ETA calculation using delivery addresses as input.
3.2. HERE Technologies
• Feature: Routing API — configure automated optimization for multi-stop routes with vehicle constraints.
3.3. Mapbox
• API: Optimization API — automate delivery route sequencing and real-time adjustment.
3.4. Route4Me
• Feature: Route Optimization API — automates multi-driver assignment and turn-by-turn route output.
3.5. PTV Group
• Function: xServer Routing API — configure vehicle profiles, automate restrictions, and real-time events.
3.6. TomTom
• API: Routing API — automates optimal route generation and traffic-aware recalculation.
3.7. Sygic Professional Navigation
• API: Sygic FleetWork — integrates automated dispatching and on-the-fly re-routing for drivers.
3.8. OptimoRoute
• Endpoint: Plan Routes API — auto-import new orders and dispatch optimal route plans.
3.9. Onfleet
• API: Task API — automate driver assignment and delivery progress tracking with automated notifications.
3.10. Samsara
• Feature: Route Planning API — automates multi-stop and multi-vehicle scheduling incorporating telematics data.
3.11. Fleet Complete
• API: Dispatch Module — integrate order system for automated vehicle/route selection.
3.12. Oracle Transportation Management Cloud
• Feature: Routing and Planning Web Service — automate large-scale optimization and constraint handling.
3.13. SAP Transportation Management
• Function: Freight Order Optimization — schedule and automate multi-depot/vehicle delivery.
3.14. Locus.sh
• API: Dispatch Planning — automates route plans for dynamic, real-time delivery changes.
3.15. WorkWave Route Manager
• API: Route Optimization — automate daily schedule generation for delivery fleets.
3.16. Descartes Route Planner
• Feature: Web Services API — automate optimized route import/export with ERP.
3.17. Bringg
• API: Route Optimization Engine — configure automated re-routing for real-time field conditions.
3.18. Geoconcept
• API: TourSolver Web Service — automates multi-criteria route computation and task allocation.
3.19. C2Logix C2RouteApp
• API: Route Planning — automate complex household goods delivery scenarios.
3.20. Circuit Route Planner
• API: Import/Optimize — trigger automated route setup from e-commerce/ERP sources.

Benefits

4.1. Automates reduction in delivery miles and fuel costs via optimal route planning.
4.2. Automatedly boosts timely deliveries, minimizing late arrivals and improving SLAs.
4.3. Automation of dispatcher workload, freeing teams for exception management and scaling.
4.4. Automates real-time communication with recipients on ETAs and delivery status.
4.5. Enables automatable scaling to accommodate increasing delivery volumes.
4.6. Automates rules to consider load, vehicle type, and regulatory compliance in planning.
4.7. Automated analytics on delivery performance for ongoing process improvement.