Key players operating in the route optimization software market have adopted various strategies to increase their market penetration and strengthen their position in the route optimization software market. We have designed and developed our own algorithm that gives a significant competitive advantage.
1. Innovation: We use artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to solve large routing problems. We have designed a fast and effective hybrid genetic algorithm from scratch for the optimization of NP-hard problems in large-class vehicle routing problems. Hadiway optimization has been able to show better speed and performance in solving large-scale problems than many other competitors. We have benchmarked our solutions against other competitors in our core industries and come out the winner time and time again. This algorithm, by measuring its efficiency at runtime can change its optimization method quickly and tune itself to reach a higher speed and efficiency. Also, as every city has its own unique traffic structure, we can tune our algorithms for solving VRP for specific cities & metropolises for higher performance.
2. More Software Features: We study the market and user feedback of other competitors and also recognize the main requirement of businesses; therefore, we can provide comprehensive software features and also can be successful in user acquisition. Some of these features are:
- 14 day full feature free trial (no credit card required).
- Easy and Effective UI/UX: drag and drop, Support Mass Uploads Points (Copy & Paste, Spreadsheets, Json)
- Set up individual drivers profile (with different shift schedules, start and end locations, capacity, trip limitation, service area)
- Reorder stops in the optimal sequence easily with a drag and drop interface. Sometimes CRMs tell us that one particular customer is special and so you might want to deliver their item first.
- Round trip: When drivers need to come back to the warehouses to continue their deliveries (Backhauls)
- Multiple Time Window
- Different cost structures for minimizing
- Support VRP Variants (VRPPD, VRPP, VRPTW, CVRP, OVRP, MDVRP)
- Mobile app for drivers
- Customer Notification
- Proof of Delivery: Hadiway Route Planner facilitates paperless data capture by helping drivers collect signatures and capture photos of each successful delivery they make.
- Delivery management with advanced analytics platform
- Track drivers live progress from the dashboard (speeding, hard braking incidents)
3. Traffic: Hadiway takes traffic into account. While in many big cities with traffic congestion, finding the fastest route and also predicting the travel time can be complicated. Many competitors do the optimization only by minimizing the travel distance or calculate the same travel time in different hours.
4. Third-Party Services: Besides, Hadiway has its own enhanced direction service. It allows the user to use other third-party direction services in addition to using this service.
5. Third-Party Logistics: Hadiway can help companies in the optimal use of their fleet, furthermore, can also help companies that don’t have their own exclusive fleet or don’t have enough fleet. By receiving the demands of these companies, social commerce or individual and performing optimization, Hadiway offers them the fastest and best price available courier services or third party logistics, while almost all competitors lack this feature.
6. Optimization + Tracking + Management tools: While many of our competitors only provide route optimization or only tracking and delivery management service. Hadiway can easily integrate several different services. And provide route optimization and operation management at the same time. And with the driver mobile application that we developed, we can track the status of the fleet and services at any moment and announce the exact delivery time to the customers.
7. Service Customization: We are a customer-oriented company and we are ready to design or revise our software as per our client requirements as we have our in-house team to facilitate our clients. Most of our competitors that are active in this field have already developed their apps and systems based on their company requirements and services to their clients. Hence, it would be a bit difficult for them to amend their system as per their new clients’ requirements. But we are ready to attract these customers to consult them and develop according to their specific requirements. This allows us to penetrate this market and grow rapidly.
8. Easy Integration: Hadiway let other developers use its services through APIs to develop their solutions or integration.
9. Competitive Price: As a small but agile startup, we can offer a competitive price due to low overhead costs.
10. Independent Infrastructures: We develop our many infrastructures components in-house (e.g. routing, map services), which will reduce costs and increase flexibility in our products.
11. Various Services: We are delivering a broader kind of service, like Tour optimizations, iso-chron, geocoding, routing while most of our competitors are servicing in route planning only.
12. COD: Support cash on delivery (COD) orders (next stage)