Route planning example, from a waste disposal company.
Collecting waste for municipalities. Waste is being collected each day from apartments and private houses, according to a fixed schedule.
Residents can send special visit requests that are added to this schedule. Read more »

Part B – How to use a territory management tool?

When you start working on your territories, first you should determine the number of territories needed based on your criteria. Criteria can include equitable distribution of leads or workload, account assignment, number of sales people, travel time, location of distributors, and other variables relevant to your business. Read more »

Part A – Why use a territory management tool?

The opportunity to increase sales can sometimes be found in balancing territories. In today’s competitive world, no company should stick to inefficiently aligned territories, especially with automatic territory tools that make it so simple and easy to handle. Read more »

Companies should always think about ways to make their transportation and logistics become a competitive advantage. With fuel costs constantly rising, there is even a greater need for a better transportation management and for an optimization process to come into the picture. Read more »

4 out of the many reasons for using territories with route planning:
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1. Reduce costs by avoiding coverage overlap. When you assign responsibility of a territory to a single sales person,
you reduce the chance of calling the same customer twice by different team members.
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Learn what territory means and how it is used in route planning:
A territory according to Wikipedia is a geographical defined area, including land and waters, considered to be a possession of a person, organization, institution, animal, state or country subdivision.
A territory can serve multiple people or institutions and may be defined in multiple different ways according to their goals and priorities. Read more »

The process of optimizing multiple addresses (any size) has 3 steps:
The first step is Geo-coding. This is when we validate the address and get its location (x,y coordinates). You see it as your addresses turn into green / yellow / red. Once we validate an address we turn it to green (or yellow if it’s not detailed) and we display its location on the map. If we are not able to geo-code an address, we turn it to red and we ask you to further verify it by adding more details or select between several alternatives.
This step usually takes seconds, even for a list of 100 addresses or more. Read more »

Providing routing delivery solutions to medical providers?
Collect test samples from clinics and hospitals to labs
Deliver medications from pharmacies to patients’ home
Transport blood between blood banks and hospitals
Plan efficient courier routes to minimize drive time/mileage. Read more »

The nature of heuristic algorithms is such that they may look optimal for one set of data and suboptimal for another. The meaning of this in the route planners world is that when you use a routing tool and get your route plan, you cannot always be sure that it is the best and there is a chance (even if a small one) that there is a better route plan hidden somewhere under the data. In addition, a route plan may look optimal to one user and less optimal to another. The minimum distance or minimum time are not always the only parameters that affect the optimality of the solution. Read more »

Service Time is the time you spend at each location. With this feature you have the ability to put pause durations at each waypoint so that the route calculation includes the time spent at each of the sites you visit. Fill this parameter to define how long you will stay at each location.
If all locations require the same service time, you should set it as Default Service Time. Read more »