Built for busy delivery operations
When you’re managing multiple vehicles, drivers, delivery jobs and customer requirements, route planning can quickly become difficult to manage manually. Podfather gives planners one central system to organise delivery activity, allocate work and create clear, practical route plans for the day ahead.
From multi drop route planning to job management and driver allocation, Podfather helps your team reduce manual admin, improve visibility and keep deliveries running smoothly.
Core route planning features
Our route planning functionality is powered by advanced and intuitive algorithms that are developed by our in-house team of engineers.
Route optimisation
Ensure that vehicle route plans are optimised, cost-effective, resource efficient and meet customer time window expectations.
Job management
Automatically upload jobs into Podfather from your ERP system using our API, sFTP upload process or enter them manually.
Bulk logistics planning
Manage all your bulk aggregate and muck away loads from one screen using our intuitive drag-and-drop feature to create plans.
The benefits of using our route planning
Save money
Efficiently planning jobs to minimize logistics costs will lead to massive bottom-line savings for your business.
Improve delivery visibility
Combining delivery route planning and optimisation with ePOD gives you real time visibility across your whole operation.
Save planning time
Replace manual planning processes with route planning software that helps your team build delivery schedules faster and reduce day-to-day admin.
Enhance business efficiency
Allocate jobs across drivers and vehicles more effectively, helping your team make better use of available fleet capacity.
Need to optimise routes too?
Route planning gives your team the structure to organise jobs, drivers and vehicles. Route optimisation helps improve those routes for efficiency, mileage, vehicle capacity and delivery windows.
Podfather supports both, with dedicated route optimisation functionality for teams that need to build more efficient delivery runs and reduce unnecessary mileage
Optimised route planning for IG Doors
For IG Doors, a leading housing supplier, Podfather’s software automates job scheduling and optimises delivery routes, factoring in customer time windows and vehicle capacities. Real-time tracking and automated ETA updates give IG Doors’ customers full delivery visibility, reducing service calls and improving reliability across projects.
Further route planning features
Job template & ePOD PDF customisation
Use our self-serve job template and ePOD PDF editor to create the job templates and ePOD PDFs that you need to run your business.
Multi drop route planning
For businesses handling high delivery volumes, our multi drop route planning software helps reduce manual work, improve schedule accuracy and keep drivers moving with clear route information.
Last mile delivery
Ensure drivers reach their destination on time every time, and in the most efficient way, with Podfather’s last-mile delivery software.
Efficient Route Planning for Temperature Sensitive Deliveries
For Run It Cool, a leader in temperature-controlled distribution, Podfather automates route planning and delivery management, enabling efficient scheduling of thousands of weekly deliveries to clients like Hilton and Waitrose. With Podfather’s electronic proof of delivery (ePOD), drivers capture real-time details, including timestamps, signatures, photos, and temperature records, ensuring reliable service for temperature-sensitive deliveries across the UK.
Related functionality
Route planning works best when it connects with the rest of your delivery management workflow. Explore the Podfather software features that help teams check vehicles, track delivery progress, capture proof of delivery and report on performance.
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.
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.
Test drive this feature
Look at our route optimisation solution in action. We think you’ll be impressed by our planning and optimisation capabilities. We’re relied on by over 30,000 users every day so we must be doing something right.