Whether you need to optimise routes daily, manage fixed delivery runs or compare different route options, Podfather gives your team the tools to make delivery routes more efficient. Our route optimisation software helps planners improve route order, reduce mileage and build delivery runs that reflect the real-world constraints of your operation.
Optimise delivery runs in the most mileage-efficient order while accounting for SLA time windows, delivery frequencies, vehicle capacities and driver schedules. Podfather automatically calculates route mileage and drive times, giving planners a clearer view of route performance before vehicles leave the depot.
The benefits of using our route optimisation software
Reduce delivery costs
Optimise routes to reduce unnecessary mileage, improve vehicle utilisation and control day-to-day logistics costs.
Save planning time
Use automated route optimisation tools to reduce manual admin and help planners build efficient delivery runs faster.
Keep customers happy
Ensure customer satisfaction with a route optimisation system that can optimise routes to hit delivery windows.
Increase delivery visibility
Connect optimised routes with live tracking and ePOD, so your team can monitor progress from dispatch through to completion.
Core route optimisation features
Optimise route plans
- Build optimised routes that make the best use of your drivers and vehicles. Ensure you maximise every driver hour and vehicle mile by building optimised, yet realistic routes, as this will improve operational efficiency and lower costs.
Optimise route to hit time windows
- With a route optimisation solution you can generate routes that take customer time window preferences into consideration, automatically. A properly optimised route will ensure you arrive on time, every time.
Easy to use route optimisation
- Our system is designed to make it easy for you to optimise your routes. The manual alternative can take valuable time from the teams' working day. A route planning software solutions enables them to optimise routes quickly and then use their expertise to refine the result.
Further route optimisation features
Last mile delivery
Getting your last-mile delivery operation right can have a huge impact on customer satisfaction and repeat business. Plan and manage it well and your customer satisfaction scores will soar. Plan last-mile deliveries badly and it can have a direct impact on your bottom line.
Optimised routes for Marrfish
Challenge
With 16 vehicles delivering to over 700 trade and home customers located around the country, Marrfish needed a proven route optimisation software solution that could help the team scale up its service quickly and efficiently.
Solution
Podfather allows jobs to be efficiently planned across drivers and vehicles. Our advanced algorithms ensure routes are cost-effective, resource efficient and meet customer time window expectations. Routing takes a matter of minutes and once complete the route information is automatically shared with drivers via the Podfather smartphone app which is used to track delivery progress and capture electronic proof of delivery information in real-time.
Related functionality
Route optimisation 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 or arrive on site.
Drivers login to the Podfather app which runs on the most basic of smartphone and is available for both Android and iOS. Using their handheld devices drivers capture all the necessary pre-departure vehicle check information required to help your fleet stay legal when out on the road.
Monitor progress against the plan in real time using our app. Automatically send customer notifications via text or email.
We track via our Driver app so there is no need for costly third party telematics. We’ll give you live tracking updates on the day and your customers benefit too with a range of notification features and live tracking links available as standard.
Streamline your proof of delivery process. Log and share job completion, scan barcodes, capture signatures and photographs.
With ePOD you are removing the need for paper tickets. If you are looking to streamline your processes, improve visibility across your operation and minimize costly delivery disputes this is the solution for you.
Use our reporting options to review and refine business performance. Includes On Time In Full (OTIF) reports and dashboards.
Reporting on actual performance helps our customers plan for the future. Refine your planning parameters, customer drop times or service commitments based on what’s actually happening out on the road. Share information with ease.
