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Route
Planning

Real world ready route planning with Locus Fireworks Routing, an intelligent & intuitive proprietary rule engine that solves the most complex routing challenges in the last mile.

Scale last-mile efficiencies with optimal routes

Locus’ Route Planning System leverages advanced algorithms to plan ideal routes for scheduled, dynamic, and recurring fulfillment models on a unified platform. It helps businesses manage vehicle journeys and schedules while improving driver performance and distribution operations, to deliver more on a single route.

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Why a Route Planning System?

Real-time re-optimization against exceptions on the ground

Real-time re-optimization against exceptions on the ground

Automatically identify instances of current and potential delays in real-time and course correct to accommodate SLA breaches or ad hoc tasks

Dynamically plan routes and vehicle assignment across legs

Dynamically plan routes and vehicle assignment across legs

Leverage capacity-led routing for route first, mid and last mile with high delivery efficiency and minimal cost. Utilize cloud-based system intelligence to ensure every shipment moves through the right nodes for effective cost control and robust chain of custody.

Drive on-ground resilience with predictive routing

Drive on-ground resilience with predictive routing

Automatically reassign unplanned tasks or at-risk SLAs to best-suited service technicians to ensure task allocation accuracy and fairness

Stay on time, every time

Stay on time, every time

Reconfigure at-risk SLAs and ad hoc tasks within minutes to always stay SLA compliant. High SLA adherence enhances customer experience while boosting brand trust and recall.

How Locuscan helpyour business

99.5%
On-time deliveries
$275m+
Dollars saved
850m+
Total deliveries across the globe
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What is Route Planning in Logistics? Definition & Overview

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How to Choose the Right Route Planning Software

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How Advanced Route Planning Benefits Fleet Drivers

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Frequently asked Questions

Route planning software is a powerful tool that utilizes advanced algorithms and machine learning to efficiently map customer addresses and create optimal route plans. By considering various business constraints like business goals, on-ground limitations, and other factors, it determines the most efficient sequence for deliveries, appointments, or stops.

Yes, you can. With Locus’ route planning software, you can effectively eliminate route redundancies and overlapping. By intelligently routing and allocating the most suitable resources to various delivery zones, the software ensures that there are no route redundancies or overlapping of routes.

Yes, you can. Using Locus’ route planning system, your company can create routes for schedule, dynamic, and recurring orders from a single dashboard. This centralized approach streamlines the process and enables efficient route planning across different fulfillment channels.

With its intelligent order grouping, automation of shipment return workflows, and effective driver allocation, Locus’ route planning software maximizes resource utilization and minimizes transit distance. It continuously learns from the daily on-ground execution data and decision-making to improve future deliveries.

Locus’ route planning software takes into account over 180 real-world constraints to generate optimal routes for each order. By considering factors such as traffic conditions, vehicle capacities, driver performance, and distribution operations, the software plans cost-efficient routes tailored to your specific requirements. This enables businesses to manage vehicle journeys and schedules and improve driver performance and distribution operations.

Yes, you can. With Locus’ route planning solutions, your enterprise can plan shipment schedules well in advance. By doing so, you can effectively balance driver workloads, reduce time spent in planning, and secure vehicle capacity for future orders.

Certainly! By leveraging Locus’ route planning software, your business can club the forward and reverse logistics orders in a single route plan. This consolidation improves driver productivity and maximizes resource and capacity utilization.

Yes, it does. With the Locus route planning software, your business can quickly respond and assign on-demand orders while managing real-world delivery exceptions. It creates new routes or resequences deliveries and auto-assigns them to the best-suited resources. It also takes into account previously scheduled tasks, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), delivery windows, the current location of the vehicles, and driver availability to ensure that the on-demand allocation of tasks is seamless and efficient.

Yes, it does. The Locus route planning software proactively takes into account factors such as traffic, route deviations, and road deviations like halts, roadblocks, or diversions. So, it proactively notifies customers of potential SLA breaches in advance. This seamless, quick, and timely communication of SLA breaches makes it easier for customers to reschedule, wait for the order, or cancel it, facilitating effective communication and customer satisfaction.

Yes, it does. Locus’ route planning software factors in work-hour restrictions, time-critical SLAs, and capacity limitations to generate smart routes for businesses. It enables enterprises to plan for existing routes and extended trips and use vehicles best across the first to last mile on a unified platform. This makes it easier for businesses to plan for complex logistics operations with unmatched ease.

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How can Locus help manage your logistics?

  • Locus’ proprietary geocoding engine converts the fuzziest of the addresses into precise geographical coordinates thereby helping your on-ground executives locate addresses easily.
  • Digitize all your operational variables such as fleets, delivery persons etc. to come up with the best route plan every day.
  • Track your orders in real-time with the Locus Live Dashboard. Locus’ last-mile delivery app Locus On The Road (LOTR) helps delivery partners process orders.
  • Visualize and tweak your scheduled plans via three key metrics— geography, time, & vehicle (fleet)—with a birds-eye view of your entire operations.
  • Build your own reports and analyze important parameters that you need to make key decisions.

Join Industry Leaders:

68m+ miles

Reduction in distance traveled

12m+ kgs

Reduction in GHG emissions

$330m+

Savings in logistics costs
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