Why do people use Route Optimiser? As someone who speaks to potential and existing Route Optimiser customers on a daily basis, it’s pretty obvious that one of the most common reasons is to help businesses and individuals reduce costs. The Route Optimiser service is a great way to save money. By making sure you choose [...]
Introducing the new ‘Maximum Day Length’ feature We’re always talking about how much time you can save using route optimization for your multi-drop route planning. (Our experiments in the past have shown an average 20-30% saving in time and distance.) But what if you’re not so interested in time saved, and simply want to get [...]
Continuing my series of blog posts exploring some of the more advanced features of Route Optimiser, I’m going to look at a feature set designed to manage the loads on your vehicles, and prevent overloading. This is a vital feature for many of our users – after all, there’s little use in creating an “optimal [...]
Last post I discussed how timeslots work within Route Optimiser. We looked at how you can add in constraints, or preferences, for the time you want to arrive at each waypoint. There are some simple steps you can make to get the most out of the features. Here are my top five tips for using [...]
Route Optimiser re-sequences delivery points into an optimal order. One of the more powerful functions is the “timeslots” feature, where you can add in constraints, or preferences, for the time you want to arrive at each waypoint. It’s a reasonably complex area, and one that many of our users are unfamiliar with. In this technical [...]
