Being in the supply chain business is not an easy affair. You need to ensure that your delivery operations are well-strategized and efficiently executed to thrive in the hyper-competitive market. If you happen to be a logistics operator, keen to embrace dynamic delivery route optimisation software, you can trust ADIONA.
Logistic optimisation means optimising the whole process flow, from ordering products to delivering them to the customer. Good logistics optimisation is what separates industry leaders from followers. By making better decisions in supply chain and logistics operations, an organisation gets an opportunity to reduce costs by 10% to 40%. It makes it crucial for companies to know how their logistic optimisation is performing and how they can improve it.
Last Mile Route Optimization (also known as VRP) is a technique where you take a set of agents, say van drivers, and a set of customers, and you solve for the optimal fleet and routes to service them. Optimal routes are lower cost, lower distance, and shorter time than routes that a human planner could make for a big fleet.
Road transportation is a crucial component of business logistics. However, in recent years, it has grown more complex with the pressure to reduce costs while meeting regulatory compliance. Now, we all want a fast and easy way to find the best route for our shipments. Using an Excel spreadsheet for it is time-consuming and difficult.
This blog refers to Zones for our PDVRP algorithm only. See separate knowledgebase articles for VRPHD, DA, or others. The concept of Zones is primarily used to separate "customers/stops" geographically, such as Zone North-Sydney and South-Sydney. Think of a Zone as a group of customers that can only be served by a single driver or set of drivers from a single depot. Depots, however, can of course serve multiple customer Zones.
Adiona has parnered with Delivery Drivers Inc, a premier provider of delivery driver contractor management software and services, to expand our US footprint. This referral relationship will enable DDI customers to access Adiona's elite delivery automation platform for enterprises and mutually allow Adiona's customers to access DDI's management and driver recruitment platform.
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Winning this inaugural award at the 60th Annual ASCLA event reinforces the demand for innovation and sustainability solutions that the supply chain industry is no longer just asking for, but demanding. Read Adiona CEO Richard Savoie's thoughts on what it means for the future.
In late April we will release new features and enhancements as described below. In addition, we are adding new API endpoints (see section 4 below) that you will need to migrate to before the existing ones are deprecated. The data of deprecation is TBA and we encourage you to plan the migration as soon as possible.
The route optimization software knows that no matter what delivery tasks you have, the pizza place is always first and the flower shop is always last—therefore routing the driver to those locations in that order drastically reduces lead times in your deliveries. The software also takes into account any relevant landmarks or areas for which drivers must take a different route, as well as one-way streets, stop signs and traffic lights to further reduce lead times.