What better delivery visibility actually returns
10 %
increase in laden mileage
Tarmac
25 %
fleet saving
Salvo
2
less people needed for planning
Noxdown
40 %
cut in planning time
Mechanical Air Supplies
Smarter routes, fewer miles, lower costs
Plan routes faster
Turn delivery jobs into practical daily routes across drivers and vehicles, reducing the time spent planning schedules manually.
Cut wasted mileage
Optimise multi-stop routes around locations, delivery windows and vehicle capacity, reducing unnecessary journeys.
Lower delivery costs
Make better use of your available fleet, helping reduce fuel, vehicle and planning costs across each delivery day.
Build more efficient routes
Turn your delivery plan into cost-effective routes that account for journey times, customer time windows and vehicle capacity. Podfather’s route optimisation software helps create efficient schedules that are practical for both drivers and customers.
- Optimise complex multi-stop routes
- Balance jobs across available vehicles
- Reduce mileage, fuel use and vehicle wear
Put every route in your drivers’ hands
Send routes, job details and delivery instructions straight to the Podfather driver app. Drivers have everything they need on their phone, while the office can monitor progress throughout the day.
- Routes and job details sent directly to drivers
- Clear instructions for every delivery
- Live updates as each job progresses
Turn completed routes into better plans
Compare planned routes with what actually happened on the road. Podfather’s dashboards and reports help you identify delays, improve planning assumptions and make better decisions about drivers, vehicles and customer commitments.
- Compare planned and actual performance
- Review OTIF and delivery KPIs
- Export and share reports across your business
How Run It Cool tripled in size without expanding its back-office team
Podfather has helped Run It Cool triple in size and manage 2500 weekly deliveries without expanding its back-office team. Automated route planning balances vehicle capacity, driver hours and delivery windows, while reducing mileage and improving fleet use.
Podfather, built to fit your operations
Flexible job imports
Bring delivery jobs into Podfather through integrations, file uploads or manual entry.
Configurable route planning
Set up planning rules around your drivers, vehicles, delivery windows and customer requirements.
Connected delivery workflow
Link route planning with the driver app, live tracking, customer notifications and ePOD.
Route planning is stronger alongside the rest of your operation
Most teams use route planning with one or two of these delivery management features. Here’s how they fit together.
Monitor progress against the plan in real time using our Android or iOS app.
Automatically send customer notifications and live tracking links, via email, text, or our online portal; keeping customers informed in real-time.
Streamline your proof of delivery process. Log and share job completions, scan barcodes, and capture signatures and photographs in real-time.
Get real-time notification of item adjustments, job cancellations and make delivery discrepancies a thing of the past.
Make sure all necessary vehicle checks have been completed and logged before vehicles leave the depot.
Maintain compliance with real-time visibility and full-time accountability online. Empower your drivers with vehicle check confirmation at their fingertips when out on the road.
FAQs
Look for software that reflects the way your operation actually works. It should account for factors such as vehicle capacity, driver availability, delivery windows, multi-stop routes and changing priorities.
It is also worth checking how easily jobs can be imported, whether routes can be sent directly to drivers, how live progress is tracked and what reporting is available after delivery. The strongest systems connect planning with the rest of the delivery process, rather than treating routing as a standalone task.
Route planning organises jobs, drivers and vehicles into a workable schedule, while route optimisation improves that schedule by considering factors such as distance, journey time, delivery windows and capacity.
Yes. Podfather can plan routes involving multiple delivery stops, customer time windows, different vehicle capacities and other operational constraints.
Yes, jobs and route information can be sent to drivers through the Podfather app, keeping the office and drivers working from the same plan.
Yes, Podfather can connect with existing ERP, sales order, warehouse management and invoicing systems, allowing jobs to be uploaded and completed proof of delivery data to flow back into your business systems. Integrations can use web services or sFTP, with XML, JSON and CSV file formats supported.
Once you submit the form, our Business Development team will get in touch within one business day. They can discuss your requirements, provide a live product demo, explain the available pricing tiers and answer any questions you have.
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We’d love to show you how we could help your business through improved logistics planning. Get in touch today and let’s talk about what challenges you are currently facing in your business and how we could help you to overcome them with smart, easy to use delivery management software that delivers real results.