Products move over complex networks including raw material depots, manufacturing plants, central and regional warehouses and crossdocks until reaching the final retail points. Optiyol helps to optimize transportation along the network covering both the long-haul and last mile transportation by tailor-fit algorithms for your business.
SEE THE PRODUCT REQUEST A DEMOSome examples of last mile commercial operations include transportation from regional warehouses to shopping malls, retail stores, convenience stores, gas stations, hotels, restaurants and cafes. These stores can be visited based on dynamic orders or based on pre-agreed weekly or monthly frequencies. Optiyol offers two solutions:
Automate and optimize route planning
Optiyol algorithms will automatically create the best routes, taking into account order locations, order sizes, fleet options, all restrictions, preferences, road distances, traffic and costs.
Dynamic fleet selection and order allocation
Optiyol suggests just enough number of vehicles with the right features to meet pickup and delivery requests on-time. Orders are allocated to vehicles to minimize both fleet and mileage costs.
Respect vehicle-type restrictions
Only certain types of vehicles are allowed to carry some orders (e.g. chemicals) or some customer locations may have upper limits on the size of vehicles. Optiyol suggests the right type of vehicle for each route.
Respect time-windows for customers and drivers
Earliest and latest delivery or pickup times for each customer are taken into account to increase on-time service levels. Preferred working hours for each driver and vehicle are considered in order allocation.
Make sure you are visiting the right addresses
Optiyol helps you to verify and correct customer addresses with mapping support. Best parking locations for each customer is also learned by utilizing tracking data from the driver app.
Respect business preferences
Restrict certain assignments of customer orders to different types of vehicles. Restrict certain pairs of order types to be carried on the same route. Restrict certain pairs of locations to be visited in the same route.
Respect vehicle capacities
You can define multiple capacity limits such as weight, volume, box, pallet or maximum number of stops for each vehicle and automate the allocation of orders within capacity limits.
Track orders and vehicles to provide visibility
Optiyol Driver App (Android & iOS) helps drivers to smoothly follow planned routes and update order statuses to track which orders got completed, are on-the-way or got cancelled.
Automate and optimize route planning
Optiyol algorithms will automatically create the best routes, taking into account order locations, order sizes, fleet options, all restrictions, preferences, road distances, traffic and costs.
Respect visit frequencies
Each customer is scheduled to be visited at the desired weekly or monthly visit frequencies. Best set of days for multiple visits in a week or month is selected for each customer to minimize overall costs.
Balance business volume among territories
Make sure the workload for different drivers is distributed fairly during territory allocation. For sales operations, it’s also possible to balance the expected revenues among territories.
Respect time-windows for customers and drivers
Earliest and latest delivery or pickup times for each customer are taken into account to increase on-time service levels. Preferred working hours for each driver and vehicle are considered in order allocation.
Make sure you are visiting the right addresses
Optiyol helps you to verify and correct customer addresses with mapping support. Best parking locations for each customer is also learned by utilizing tracking data from the driver app.
Balance visit costs and expected revenues
You can run multiple optimization scenarios under varying fleet size and customer visit frequencies to balance transportation costs against expected additional revenues.