Use cases
Common use cases are described here.
Possible logistic scenarios
- Delivery from one depot
- Cargo collection to the depot
- Start or end of the route at an arbitrary point
- Pickup & delivery: collecting and delivering cargo at arbitrary points
- Delivery from one of several depots
- Routes with several depots: visiting an additional depot
- Routes with several depots: start of a new run from a different depot
- Routes with several depots: choosing the optimal depot to start from
- Delivery to one of multiple locations
- Receiving cargo at one of the possible locations
- Planning multiple runs from the depot for one courier
- Cross-docking
- Cross-docking: planning without accounting for the delivery distance to the cross-dock
- Pickup & delivery via cross docking
- Delivery with vehicle parking before the walking part of the route
- Using a trailer
Example settings for business cases
- Planning the loading of your own couriers
- Simultaneous planning for couriers who drive a vehicle and who use public transport
- Simultaneous planning of current and next-day orders
- Planning orders that can be rescheduled / Planning part of the orders
- Planning with uniform shift time violation for drivers
- Transport with different load capacities
- Experienced and novice couriers
- Priority couriers
- Restriction on arriving at the point early
- Using your own and hired transport at the same time
- Minimizing waiting time for couriers
- Minimizing the number of couriers
- Priority orders
- Grouped routes
- Reducing the number of delays
- Planning routes by geofence
- Priority areas for couriers
- Planning orders for multiple days
- Multi-day routes
- Vehicle with multiple compartments
- Depot departure time
- Pricing by geofences