Operations & Logistics AutomationsPurpose
1. Automate and optimize the daily routing of vehicles for material collections and deliveries across multiple sites and warehouses to maximize efficiency.
2. Enable automated route planning based on pickup/drop-off schedules, traffic data, vehicle capacities, location proximity, and special handling needs for salvaged building materials.
3. Automate integration of order management, vehicle tracking, and customer communications in real-time for dynamic route adjustments.
4. Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and safety standards through automated monitoring and alerting.
Trigger Conditions
1. New order created for material collection or delivery.
2. Vehicle assigned or de-assigned for a route.
3. Significant traffic event or weather alert.
4. Vehicle breakdown, maintenance trigger, or personnel changes.
5. Customer rescheduling a collection/delivery via web portal or API.
Platform Variants
1. Google Maps Platform
• Setting: Automate waypoint calculation and real-time route optimization based on updated order queue.
2. HERE Routing API
• Setting: Automate multi-stop, constraint-based route automation using scheduled job requests.
3. Mapbox Optimization API
• Setting: Automate route calculation for salvage collections with capacity/time constraints.
4. Routific
• Setting: Automate daily route creation; integrate with inventory/order management.
5. OptimoRoute
• Setting: Automate import of daily manifest; adjust in real-time for new pickups/drop-offs.
6. Sygic Professional Navigation
• Setting: Set up automated route updates sent to driver mobile devices.
7. Samsara
• Setting: Automate transfer of optimized routes to driver dashboards, monitor compliance.
8. Verizon Connect
• Setting: Automate push of updated route plans after traffic/incidents.
9. WorkWave Route Manager
• Setting: Automate scheduled optimization runs and sync with order database.
10. MyRouteOnline
• Setting: Automate upload of stop lists from POS or CRM for immediate route planning.
11. Onfleet
• Setting: Automate service request intake and route assignment for pickup/delivery drivers.
12. Circuit
• Setting: Automate optimization according to load, ETA, and driver proximity.
13. Locus
• Setting: Automate real-time route re-optimization when orders or traffic change.
14. Track-POD
• Setting: Automate new order ingestion with automatic dispatching to drivers.
15. Route4Me
• Setting: Automate processing of daily manifest and integrate proof-of-delivery.
16. Fleet Complete
• Setting: Automate route adjustments in response to telematics triggers and driver input.
17. Descartes Route Planner
• Setting: Automatedly reschedule in response to urgent pickups or cancellations.
18. Bringg
• Setting: Automate matching of jobs to drivers, rebalancing by real-time demand.
19. Geotab
• Setting: Automate route distribution to Geotab-connected vehicles.
20. SAP Logistics Business Network
• Setting: Automate back-and-forth sync of route status between ERP and logistics partner portal.
Benefits
1. Automates cost reduction by minimizing mileage, fuel, and time per route.
2. Automator enhances customer experience with accurate ETAs and automated notifications.
3. Automatedly increases operational throughput by enabling dynamic route adjustments.
4. Automates compliance and environmental reporting for collections/deliveries.
5. Automator reduces manual dispatch workload and error through end-to-end automation.
6. Automatable solution seamlessly integrates with order management, CRM, and telematics for real-time reporting and route change automation.