Route planning combined with route execution, that is enabled by telematics, enables you to monitor actual routes taken against plan. So you will gain the opportunity to fix problems and increase efficiency:
- Monitor routes and address non-compliance. When you combine route planning with route execution, enabled by telematics, you can monitor actual routes taken against plan. This means you can identify habitual delays or diversions from plan, generating the opportunity to fix problems and increase efficiency (and reduce fuel usage) further. Integrating these two systems allows you to automatically identify discrepancies between planned and actual performance and adjust accordingly. Benefits include:
- ETA: Improved customer communication. Live ETA updates and “running late” alerts allow you to update customers about their scheduled deliveries; drivers and customers can communicate in real-time.
- Dynamic route planning – Continually improved routes: When live GPS data is fed into advanced routing software, exceptions to the plan are flagged that help identify problems, such as habitual delays at a particular customer drop or regular traffic jams at specific times in specific areas. With these insights, you can update data so future plans are more accurate. With the help of dynamic route planning, delivery address can be changed on the go and you have the option to assign another available vehicle to complete the delivery process.