03/07/2023
How quickly will automatic routing pay off for a small business with its own delivery service?
Many small business owners believe that automatic route planning systems are only for large corporations with thousands of orders and hundreds of couriers per day. However, in our practice, hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses with 50-100 delivery orders per day, handled by three to five couriers, use routing. What tasks do they solve with an automatic route planning system?
First and foremost, this is the task of changing the route planning process. Very often, routes are planned by customer department managers who spend several hours a day on this task. Sometimes even the owner has to plan the routes - in both cases, there can be no talk of any efficient delivery.
Sometimes routes are not built at all. For example, the owner thinks, why spend money and time on building routes when you can print a list of orders and give it to the couriers? In this case, the courier builds the route themselves. As a result, the courier does not have time to deliver the goods on time or does not bring them at all on the appointed day.
At some point, the company owner notices that the couriers have approximately the same salary, but they work differently - someone manages to do twice as much as someone else. Customers complain about the lack of service and do not want to place repeat orders.
By optimizing delivery routes, automatic routing can help small businesses reduce fuel and labor costs, improve delivery efficiency, and increase customer satisfaction. Automatic routing can also help small businesses save time and effort spent on manual route planning and correction, allowing them to focus on other aspects of their business.
As for cost savings, research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) showed that route optimization can save small businesses up to 30% of fuel costs and up to 10% of total vehicle mileage. In addition, the same study showed that implementing route optimization software can pay off within 2 months.
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