Determining how to efficiently deliver orders while maximizing
customer service is difficult. But the relationship drivers develop with their accounts
also impacts route efficiency. Routing solutions need to balance service levels
and delivery costs, while respecting established contacts. They should consider
route distances and resulting fuel usage, stops per route, customer responsiveness,
capacity and utilization.
Roadshow Route Planner RS meets these requirements and builds optimal plans based
on available routes, fleet resources, and field personnel. As part of the Descartes
Delivery Management™ Suite, it is an easyto- use, easy-to-deploy application with
a proven track record of delivering results. It integrates with the other strategic
planning and execution applications.
Roadshow Route Planner RS is geared to organizations that
need to quickly route large batches of order just-in-time to hand off to the warehouse;
would like to run the software in-house and would like the option to add automatic
vehicle location (AVL). A recognized innovator in delivery management, Roadshow
has been offered market-proven routing and scheduling solutions for over 20 years.
With extensive logistics expertise and a leadership tradition in wireless and messaging,
Roadshow has been deployed advanced delivery applications at over 4000 companies.
Roadshow’s customers have enjoyed such benefits as a 10% to 20% increase in completed
daily deliveries, a 10% drop in fuel consumption, and a 20% improvement in vehicle
utilization.
Benefits
Roadshow Route Planner RS helps:
Reduce operating costs by:
Decreasing expediting
costs and overtime charges
Enhancing fleet capacity
utilization
Improving time-window
management
Minimizing distance
traveled, stop duration, and fuel usage
Reducing fleet size necessary to service orders
Enhance customer service and retention by:
Facilitating arrival and
departure times
Fixed or dynamic routing. Determines best resources (truck and route)
to use, and recommends an order
sequence. Users can
select optimization criteria including lowest cost or shortest routes, or shortest
distance between stops. Considers such factors as the cost per stop, route, and
customer. Incrementally slots new orders.
Robust yield management. Enables users to achieve greater operational
efficiencies by identifying and prioritizing the most profitable routes, orders,
and customers. Improves truck utilization, time-window management for improved customer
service, and drive time.
Constrained optimization. Considers customer requirements, contracts,
and prospective business in
route and resource
assignments. Provides insight needed to evaluate the impact of new business opportunities
and bid appropriately. Evaluates feasibility of servicing new business and new markets.
Geographic intelligence. Employs an extensive digital road network
to support street-level
optimization. Provides
more accurate drive time calculations than traditional point-to-point estimates.
Yields precise arrival
estimates, route assignments, and performance metrics.
Flexible, rapid implementation. Uses a proven ability to rapidly integrate
to both legacy and packaged
solutions and can deliver
a rapid return on investment typically in months, if not weeks.