Why Are You Still Planning Routes The Old School Way?
If your route planning is not completely automated or takes more than 10 minutes to complete, you may be a good candidate for the Strategic Movements route planning and optimization application.
Strategic Movements For Shippers and Brokers
Strategic Movements can find low-cost routing solutions for more complicated distribution problems, like those facing shippers, or for freight brokers working for those shippers.
Walzik Announces Just A Buck A Truck™ For Fleet Trip Optimization
The owners of smaller fleets have been underserved by the providers of route optimization software for a long time. We are offering a very simple solution that requires little training and may be used by the existing route planning staff.
Quick Tip – How Do I Consolidate Jobs
Andrew explains how to use consolidated jobs in Strategic Movements. Consolidated jobs are used to ensure that multiple stops are placed on the same vehicle and are serviced in an the order specified by the trip planner.
Know Your Costs To Track Your Savings
Significant savings can be achieved through route optimization. A key first step is to know your costs. Only when you know those cost, can you start to control them.
Saving Time When Planning Routes
Time is money and time only marches on. Once a minute has passed, that minute is no longer available for any productive use. In the world of route planning, there are way too many opportunities to have unproductive minutes. Doing manual repetitive tasks or planning less than the best routes can yield quite a bit of time that could be spent elsewhere.
Planning For Route Optimization Implementation
Many larger organizations have adopted some type of route optimization software in the past. Many have had successful implementations and are happy with their vendor today. On the other hand, there have also been many cases where the results were not what was expected. And, in many of these cases, a considerable amount of time and money was spent before abandoning the implementation.
How To Reduce Route Planning Costs
When discussing optimization when planning routes, trips, or loads, the first thing that comes to mind is that the optimized end result reduces transportation costs by a significant amount. But there are other savings to be gained as well. The time needed to plan those routes, trips, or loads can take quite a long time every day.
Route Optimization Reduces Costs
Businesses are always in the process of reducing costs. Last mile product delivery is one place where costs can be reduced. Any business that does not use some type of route optimization or dynamic routing is leaving money on the table.