Put An End To Your Drivers’ Wild Goose Chase

Most companies have no idea they are quietly losing money until a proper review of daily driver routines is done. 43 stops. There were six highway detours. A break split the delivery cluster in half. www.saphyroo.com/solutions/route-optimisation This isn’t due to laziness it comes down to no one examining the workflow.

The actual process of route optimisation happens the moment you challenge the routine, and the results can feel a bit embarrassing. Well, we always were doing this?

This is the main point, the shortest route isn’t always the fastest path to Point B. Traffic, time windows, vehicle capacity, driver hours, fuel costs and even weather pitch in.

A three kilometre delivery may take twice as long as a ten kilometre delivery during the daytime, or at a different time of the day. All these variables are simultaneously crunched by route optimisation software, something no human dispatcher can realistically handle at scale, however good he or she is at his job.

This was what one of the logistics managers I interviewed referred to as having got glasses after years of straining his eyes.

The gains are tangible and compound over time. Less kilometres travelled implies less fuel burnt. Lower fuel usage means fewer emissions. Reduced driving time improves on-time arrivals rather than swearing in their fourth traffic jam at 7 PM.

Companies using proper route optimisation often report 10 to 30 percent fuel savings and for a full fleet, that’s a significant financial boost.

Customer satisfaction also infiltrates, as more accurate ETAs reduce missed deliveries and fewer complaints about late or cold deliveries.

Small businesses tend to think that this form of technology is only applicable to large companies with their fleets and well-organized operations teams. That mindset is outdated.

There are plenty of modern subscription-based tools available, which can scale up to a three van business and don’t require technical mastery.

A florist having five drivers can not be worse off than a national courier. Success depends on good data input, which is to type in the right stop windows, realistic load times, and right vehicle specifications.

Like baking without proper measurements, bad input leads to bad results.