# Cut Delivery Costs with Locus Dispatch Planning Software

Locus Dispatch Planning Software streamlines dispatch workflows by automating route optimization, scheduling, shipment processing, and capacity planning. It helps enterprise logistics teams save time, reduce delivery costs, and improve delivery performance across all-mile fulfillment operations.

## Make Deliveries More Efficient

Locus Dispatch Planning is a complete set of solutions designed to bring efficiency at scale to fulfillment operations. It reduces manual dependency across key processes such as parcel sorting, route planning, and capacity management.

By minimizing operational errors, optimizing routes in real time, and ensuring adequate capacity to meet demand, Locus helps drivers complete more deliveries in a single shift while improving reliability.

**Reported impact:**

- **1.22B+** deliveries optimized
- **$303M+** savings in logistics costs
- **99.5%** on-time deliveries

## Dispatch Planning Capabilities

### Hub Operations

Increase operational efficiency in delivery operations and reduce time spent on shipment processing by reducing manual dependencies in hub workflows.

### Capacity Management

Plan driver schedules, track resource availability, and allocate shipments efficiently with integrated shift and roster management. Locus helps teams prepare capacity in advance while accounting for holidays, driver days off, and sick leave.

### Route Planning

Optimize routes for time, distance, and more than 180 operational variables. Locus helps delivery teams complete more drops per route while reducing misrouting and route redundancies.

## Increase Speed to Dispatch with Powerful Automations

### Intelligent Resource Allocation

Locus uses on-ground execution data and order-specific attributes to assign shipments to the best-suited driver and vehicle.

The system helps reduce misroutes and delays by simplifying shipment sorting, accurately mapping delivery addresses, and printing route information on shipping labels so the right parcel is loaded into the right vehicle.

### Integrated Roster Management

Plan driver shifts and vehicle availability in advance to improve resource utilization and ensure capacity is available when demand peaks.

Locus helps operations teams account for holidays, planned absences, and unplanned driver availability changes so daily dispatch schedules remain resilient.

### Route Optimization for Efficiency

Locus optimizes routes using built-in intelligence based on service locality, drop density, distance, traffic patterns, and other delivery constraints.

The platform can analyze and optimize existing route plans as ground conditions change, helping improve first-attempt delivery rates and reduce failed deliveries. It also clusters deliveries by zone and allocates the best-suited resources to reduce route redundancies.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What is Locus Dispatch Planning Software?

Locus Dispatch Planning Software is the dispatch and execution layer of Locus’s Decision-Intelligent TMS. It automates hub operations, driver allocation, route optimization, and real-time re-dispatch to help enterprise logistics teams maximize delivery throughput while reducing cost per drop.

### How does Locus Dispatch Planning Software reduce delivery costs?

Locus reduces delivery costs by optimizing routes across real-world constraints such as vehicle capacity, driver shift windows, delivery time slots, route density, and traffic. This helps eliminate manual planning errors, remove route redundancies, and increase deliveries per shift without adding headcount.

### What are the main features?

The core features include:

- **Hub Operations** for automated shipment processing
- **Capacity Management** for shift planning, roster management, and resource availability tracking
- **Route Planning** for optimizing routes by service locality, drop density, distance, and traffic patterns

### How does the software improve resource allocation?

Locus uses order-level attributes such as weight, service window, vehicle compatibility, and drop density to match shipments with the right driver and vehicle.

AI-validated geocoding supports accurate sorting and sequencing, helping ensure the right parcel is loaded into the right vehicle and reducing failed first delivery attempts.

### How does Locus handle capacity management?

Locus organizes driver schedules, tracks available resources for shipment allocation, and incorporates holidays, driver days off, and sick days into daily plans so teams can secure capacity when it is needed most.

### Does Locus optimize routes in real time?

Yes. Locus monitors live execution signals such as driver app updates, traffic feeds, and exception alerts, then re-optimizes routes when delays or exceptions occur. Planners retain override control while the system works to maximize first-attempt delivery rates without manual replanning."