What is Dynamic Route Planning?

In conventional delivery route planning, logistics managers use pen and paper methods to plan day-to-day dispatches and come up with fixed delivery routes for their delivery agents. However, with changing consumer expectations of faster and on-demand deliveries, this method is not ideal as it cannot accommodate last-minute on-demand requests. Dynamic route planning is the ability to include last-minute customer requests with previously scheduled orders and reroute dynamically to customer locations.

Dynamic route planning is effective and useful for carrying out successful all-mile operations in e-commerce, food delivery, grocery delivery, home services, etc.

Benefits of implementing dynamic route planning in your supply chain

• Dynamic route planning can accommodate additional business orders in real-time
• It helps in improving rider productivity, by allocating tasks to riders who may be able to finish extra deliveries within working hours
• Dynamic routing improves customer satisfaction as orders can be allocated and completed soon after being placed
• It is a great way to accommodate return requests while delivery agents are already on the ground

How Locus helps businesses with dynamic route planning

Advanced geocoding of delivery addresses | Preference-based dynamic routing | Historical data inspection | Live tracking and notifications | Smart rider allocation | Analytics and insights