What does route optimisation do for a courier company?
Route optimisation decides which stops go on which van and in what order, so a courier company delivers more stops with fewer kilometres while keeping time windows. Transportial's built-in vehicle routing solver does this in seconds for all open consignments, and planners preview the result before committing it.
Courier and last-mile planning is a vehicle routing problem: dozens or hundreds of stops, each with a time window, divided across vans with limited capacity and shifts that end at a fixed time. Done by hand, it produces routes that look sensible but cross each other and miss windows. Transportial's VRP solver takes every open consignment, every available vehicle and its capacity, the delivery time windows and the drivers' working time, and returns an optimised plan in seconds. The planner reviews the proposal in preview mode, adjusts it on the drag-and-drop plan board if needed and only then commits it. Consignments that arrive during the day can be inserted into active trips without disrupting the other planned stops. Committed routes go to the OpenMove driver app stop by stop, and operations with complex constraints, such as multi-day tours, can connect PTV's enterprise tour planning as the optimiser engine.