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Vehicle Routing: Direct Route™

Direct Route™ is a class-leading vehicle route optimisation solution. Efficient, flexible and easy to use, Direct Route enables you to optimise the efficiency of your vehicle fleet by dynamically scheduling pickups and deliveries.

Direct Route allows you to produce optimised delivery schedules that take into account extensive routing rules and parameters specific to your company, thus ensuring that you not only meet your customer requirements but that you do so whilst also complying with real world operating constraints.

With Direct Route, orders can be typed into the application, they can be imported from a number of existing ERP or ordering systems including Transtech’s VMI scheduling package ePlan, and they can even be imported from Excel spreadsheets in less dynamic environments.

Mapping offers Routing Accuracy

Maps are drawn with the routes and jobs plotted on them to allow a visual appreciation of the topography of the route.
Mapping data includes up-to-date information about road types, directions and restrictions.
Superior map graphics instantly zoom from a regional overview to detailed street maps.
State boundaries, highways, roads and major streets are standard with Direct Route
Routes and schedules are accurate because they do not rely on straight-line estimates but on actual road network drive times.

Easy Route Adjustments

Easy viewing and modification of routes is available on full colour, high-resolution, Australian maps and via spreadsheet updating.
You have the flexibility of quickly changing your work rules and running a new route solution or modifying routes on the map rather than having to shuffle through a stack of reports.
The program develops detailed delivery schedules and maintains statistics for each route such as total drive time, work time, miles driven, capacity utilisation, transportation cost, etc.
If you decide to move a stop to another route, you instantly see the impact on each affected route as well as the impact on your total costs.
Save and re-open multiple route solutions and choose the solution that you want to utilise.

What-If Analyses for Better Business Decisions

For the analyst in your business who is charged with the task of maintaining minimum costs and efficient operations, Direct Route can be used to perform “what if” analyses.
It gives the planner the opportunity to consider different business options and can answer questions such as “What if I changed my service guarantees?” or “What if I expand my service territory?”

Competitive and Intelligent Bidding

Direct Route serves as a valuable bidding tool. By entering the requirements and constraints of a contract and combining the information with your current orders, you can measure the demands of the additional business on your resources to determine if the contract is feasible.
The system also determines the incremental cost of the additional business to provide the information you need to make competitive bids for contracts.

Route Reports and Exports

Direct Route allows a user to print and export routes and utilise reporting many ways:

Print detailed route manifests including turn-by-turn driving instructions.
Export routes to Web Report Module for wide-area access and visibility of operations.
Import GPS data into Web Report Module for real-time updating and historical reporting.
Export route data to GPS units, Accounting System, Warehouse Management System, etc.
Print detailed street route maps for your personnel.
Print detailed street route map sections.
Print detailed stop-by-stop route maps.
Export route manifests to text file for Email.

For information on Transtech's consulting services for Direct Route click here.