Supply Chain & LogisticsPurpose
1.2 Integrate real-time order intake, traffic patterns, vehicle capacities, and customer delivery windows.
1.3 Reduce transportation costs, minimize delivery times, and boost on-time service reliability.
1.4 Continuously adapt schedules with dynamic rescheduling based on urgent orders, cancellations, and changing delivery priorities.
Trigger Conditions
2.2 Bulk orders requiring dispatch—system receives updated manifest.
2.3 Inventory reaches threshold for replenishment deliveries.
2.4 Update in traffic, weather, vehicle status, or route obstruction.
2.5 Customer reschedules delivery time or changes address.
Platform Variants
3.1 Google Maps Platform
• API: Directions API—calculate real-time optimal routes for delivery fleet.
• API: Distance Matrix API—estimate travel durations for multiple deliveries.
3.2 HERE Technologies
• API: Routing API—dispatch multi-stop route optimization for beverage trucks.
3.3 Mapbox
• API: Optimized Trips API—configure vehicle start/end points, stops, and constraints.
3.4 TomTom
• Feature: Routing API—setup real-time recalculation of routes upon route deviations.
3.5 Route4Me
• API: Route Planner—batch upload delivery addresses for full-day sequencing.
3.6 OptimoRoute
• API function: PlanDaily Routes—automate recurring and ad hoc order scheduling.
3.7 WorkWave Route Manager
• Integration: Schedule Import API—push daily orders for automated distribution.
3.8 Onfleet
• API: Task Creation Endpoint—schedule new stops and assign to available drivers.
3.9 Fleet Complete
• Feature: Route Optimization module—auto-route generation based on delivery volumes.
3.10 Samsara
• Feature: Dispatch API—stream route plans to in-cab devices for live execution.
3.11 Microsoft Azure Maps
• API: Route Optimization—automate calculation using regional traffic data.
3.12 ESRI ArcGIS
• Feature: Network Analyst—create vehicle routing problem (VRP) solutions with delivery constraints.
3.13 Locus DispatchIQ
• API: Route Planning—send real-time delivery requests and locked delivery windows.
3.14 FarEye
• Endpoint: Dynamic Routing—initiate route recalculation on live delivery status updates.
3.15 GeoTab
• API: Route Assignment—upload scheduled stops and receive fleet-level recommendations.
3.16 SAP Logistics Business Network
• Integration: Freight Collaboration—sync transporter availability and time slots.
3.17 Descartes Route Planner
• API: Delivery Schedule Import—push daily drop lists for fleet allocation.
3.18 Oracle Transportation Management Cloud
• Feature: Shipment Planning—auto-generate and optimize delivery tours.
3.19 Trimble MAPS
• Function: Route Optimization API—build truck-legal, cost-minimized route plans.
3.20 Circuit for Teams
• Endpoint: Import Stops—create optimized driver routes from drag-and-drop lists.
3.21 Project44
• Feature: Real-Time Visibility API—auto-trigger alternate routing on unexpected delays.
3.22 Bringg
• API: PlanDeliveryRoutes—assign based on nearest available fleet and SLA timing.
Benefits
4.2 Increases order fulfillment speed and consistency, even during peak demand.
4.3 Improves customer satisfaction by allowing real-time ETA updates and flexible delivery slots.
4.4 Aids rapid decision-making via data-driven route and schedule adjustment.
4.5 Provides transparency with audit trails for each delivery optimization event.