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Time estimation consists of two parts – driving time and time at the customer. Optrak4 uses historical road speeds to predict journey times between sites. A study showed that the improved accuracy from this alone, resulted in a 4% improvement in routing efficiency.

To improve accuracy of time at customer, Optrak can be linked to your own POD or tracking data to achieve a more accurate model of the time at each customer site – allowing different profiles for each customer if required. This same analysis can be used to identify consistently slow-loading customers to allow sales or operations staff to negotiate directly with the customer to improve performance.

With Optrak4 , you can add new collection orders to the plan. These orders are checked against the existing routes – taking into account what has already been delivered and picked up – to see if they can be inserted without impacting the time windows/delivery capacity for already routed orders.

All trip building actions, whether optimisation or interactive trip editing are always checked against the appropriate loader for the vehicle (and you can have different loaders for different vehicle types in the same data set). Any infringement of loading rules is immediately indicated to the user.

On a daily basis, Optrak4’s integrated carrier functionality plugs your 3rd party carrier options into the optimiser to identify which areas could be run more cost effectively by a subcontractor – calculating against total cost to the route of tasking vehicles for specific regions or jobs.

At a strategic level, “What If?” analysis can be used to review long-term decisions over where to route directly and where to negotiate more permanent 3rd party arrangements.