PlanDeliver: The Basics

Are you using Excel spreadsheets, pins in maps, inefficient rules of thumb or other manual methods to plan your routes for delivery vehicles? There’s a much better way… a way that will reduce your costs and make your job more fun.

Bottom line: planning loads and delivery routes manually is costly. Not only does it cost you time, but inefficient routes require more fuel and maintenance.

PlanDeliver is a web-based application that helps allocators build the most efficient loads and plan the routes that delivery vehicles should take as simply as possible. With PlanDeliver, you can:

• Run an optimised route and easily drag and drop to build loads to adapt to unexpected situations.
• Visualise and plan your route using Google maps or order status.
• Plan routes based on key variables such as weight, palettes and equipment needed.
• Drag and drop to build loads to quickly adapt to unexpected situations.
• See how much various routes will cost.
• Share estimated delivery times with all customer-facing staff.
• Print a test schedule.

The result: with PlanDeliver you can plan your routes in about one-third of the time it would take to do so manually.

Depending on your role, route planners have different benefits. Click on the links below to learn more:

I’m a manager. I want to understand how PlanDeliver will help me save costs and become more efficient.

Read PlanDeliver: The Manager’s Perspective

I am an allocator/dispatcher. Tell me how your interface will make my job easier.

Read PlanDeliver: The Allocator’s Perspective

I help companies reduce carbon emissions. Tell me how PlanDeliver can help reduce emissions.

Read Reduce Emissions With PlanDeliver

While you are just beginning your search and you may not want to know all of the ins-and-outs of PlanDeliver, here is one important difference to note: PlanDeliver is unlike any other route planner on the market because it uses the best of software and humans. Essentially, you add orders, the most obvious sequence and route will be automatically mapped, and then allocators can manually make changes to improve the route (the PlanDeliver interface makes this very easy to do). Of course, drivers can make changes to the routes to improve them even further.