Route optimization for delivery trucks based on live orders

Purpose

1. Automate live route optimization for sand & gravel trucks, based on incoming wholesale orders, delivery locations, and dynamic factors (traffic, weather, fleet status).

2. Reduce delivery lead times, maximize truck utilization, automate dispatch, and enable real-time adaptation for on-time supply to construction sites.

3. Centralize order intake, automate route calculation and dispatch workflows, automate notifications, and automate proof-of-delivery updates.

Trigger Conditions

1. New order received via CRM, e-commerce, or direct customer portal.

2. Change in live traffic or weather data.

3. Vehicle availability status updated by telematics or GPS input.

4. Manual dispatch override or urgent customer request submitted.

Platform Variants

1. Google Maps Platform

• Feature/Setting: Directions API, Distance Matrix API — automate best-route calculation and ETA planning using order & live fleet location data.
  

2. Mapbox

• Feature/Setting: Optimization API — automate multi-destination route sequencing; combine real-time order and truck locations.
  

3. Here Technologies

• Feature/Setting: Routing API — automate dynamic vehicle route adjustments; configure API for real-time traffic/inventory input.
  

4. TomTom

• Feature/Setting: Routing API with Waypoint Optimization — automate load-based vehicle routing using sand/gravel site delivery points.
  

5. Samsara

• Feature/Setting: Telematics API — sync live fleet and location status for automated dispatch logistics.
  

6. Fleet Complete

• Feature/Setting: Fleet Tracker API — automate vehicle assignment and proof-of-delivery record entry.
  

7. Onfleet

• Feature/Setting: Task Automation API — create automated delivery tasks and optimize routes in real time.
  

8. Verizon Connect

• Feature/Setting: Reveal API — automate driver allocation and monitor route performance.
  

9. Salesforce

• Feature/Setting: Service Cloud Flow Builder — automate order-to-dispatch sequence; trigger route requests.
  

10. SAP

• Feature/Setting: Logistics Business Network — automate integration between order management and optimized delivery assignments.
  

11. Microsoft Dynamics 365

• Feature/Setting: Field Service Routing Engine — automate live scheduling based on order influx.
  

12. Route4Me

• Feature/Setting: Route Planning API — automate generation of optimized multi-stop truck routes.
  

13. Detrack

• Feature/Setting: Dispatch API — automate delivery status, driver notifications, and route assignments.
  

14. Zoho Creator

• Feature/Setting: Workflow Automation — automate condition-based route optimization and alerts.
  

15. ElasticRoute

• Feature/Setting: API for Route Planning — automate bulk order upload and real-time optimization.
  

16. Oracle Transportation Management

• Feature/Setting: Shipment Planning API — automate sand/gravel order assignments and optimal delivery paths.
  

17. SendGrid

• Feature/Setting: Email API — automate customer notifications for updated ETAs or delivery confirmations.
  

18. Twilio

• Feature/Setting: SMS API — automate SMS alerts for dispatch and live tracking to drivers/customers.
  

19. Slack

• Feature/Setting: Workflow Builder — automate route change broadcasts in shared logistics channels.
  

20. Power Automate

• Feature/Setting: Flow Templates — automate trigger-based route optimization using connected business sources.
  

21. AWS Lambda

• Feature/Setting: Event-Driven Functions — automate real-time computation for route re-optimization after major input changes.
  

22. Zapier

• Feature/Setting: Multi-step Zaps — automate handoffs between order, inventory, and route management apps.
  

23. Trello

• Feature/Setting: Power-Ups Automation — automate assignment of next-day delivery tasks.
  

Benefits

1. Automates assignment of right vehicle, automating fuel and time savings.

2. Automatedly adapts delivery plans when orders or external factors change.

3. Enables end-to-end automation of notifications, reducing manual dispatcher workload.

4. Automator increases capacity for more loads delivered per day, automating increased revenue.

5. Automatable proof-of-delivery flows support higher customer satisfaction, automating service excellence.

6. Automated data capture delivers continual logistics process improvement.

7. Automates compliance with delivery SLAs in the building materials wholesale sector.