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Multi window routes

Multi window routes

Create a fleet, vehicle depot, fleet management, add vehicle, routing configuration, planning window Service calendar for pickup location

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Written by Bror Roger Mathisen
Updated over 2 years ago

Multi Window routes - means that you combine long route duration with shorter delivery windows (customer delivery promise). This means that you can combine the customer's wish for e.g. delivery within a specific time, while the carrier has the option of handling the delivery on a route with a longer duration.

Example: The carrier has routes with a long duration, e.g. from 08:00 to 15:00. However, the customers on route want their goods delivered between 08-10, 10-12, 12-13 and so on.

There are often many deliveries on a route and each individual customer may want the delivery to take place when they have the opportunity to receive the goods. Retailers can comply with this request by making available delivery windows in e.g. the online store - that will automatically be organized with different route duration as desired - e.g. 1, 2, 4 or 7 hour etc. for multi delivery windows throughout the day.

The Zoopit route engine will then organize all deliveries according to route duration, e.g. 08:00 to 15:00 in an optimized delivery sequence that takes care of the customer's desire for a delivery time (delivery promise), for example, one customer wants delivery between 10-12, and another wants delivery between 12-14 and so on. Which means that the carrier collects all the goods for the route by 08:00 (when starting route) and delivers to the customers according to the delivery sequence until the route duration ends at 15:00.

Multi window routes are created by following this steps:

Step 1. - Create a fleet

Step 2. - Create a vehicle depot

Step 3. - Add vehicle

Step 4. - Create a routing configuration

Step 5. - Create planning window

Step 6. - Service calendar for pickup location

STEP 1. - CREATE A FLEET

The first thing to do is to Create a fleet.

  1. Tap on Menu

  2. Tap on Routing

  3. Tap on Fleet management

STEP 2. - CREATE VEHICLE DEPOT

  1. Add vehicle depot

  2. Fill in the depot address

  3. Check location on map and GPS coordinates

  4. Give the depot a name

  5. Select a carrier

  6. Save vehicle depot

STEP 3. ADD VEHICLE

1. Add vehicle to depot

2. Name the vehicle

3. Add vehicle capacity and route duration in minutes

Note - Vehicle capacity is a number that could be wight, volume or load carrier units)

4. Add costs (optional)

5. Add carrier connected to the vehicle for this pickup location

6. Save vehicle

STEP 4. CREATE ROUTING CONFIGURATION

(Enable vehicles and multiple pickups for ‘multi windows routes’)

Go back to Menu and tap Routing

  1. Tap ‘Manage routing config’

  2. Tap ‘New routing config’

  3. Give the new routing config a ‘Name’

  4. Add ‘Location’ (pickup location)

    1. Add or create Label for route config (optional)

  5. Choose from ‘Routing preferences’ how route should unfold

    1. If courier are allowed to do multiple pick-ups in between deliveries - activate Multiple pickup button

  6. Choose Vehicle’s in ‘Registered vehicles (capacity)’ and numbers of ‘Fallback vehicles’

    1. Registered vehicles should be the ones created in Fleet management for location and if required the ones for Multiple window

    2. Fallback vehicles are backup vehicles in case of need. E.g. when Routing preferences dictate that the number of vehicles are not enough to handle the volume of deliveries for a specific delivery window - backup is needed.

  7. ‘Reset’ or ‘Save Routing config’

STEP 5. CREATE PLANNING WINDOW

Create planning window with that routing config (and enable new flags)

Example: Multi window route: 08:00-15:00

Go to Menu and tap Routing - then;

  1. ‘Add a routing planning’

  2. Give the planning a ‘Name’

  3. Select:

    1. Carrier

    2. Pickup location

    3. Use Routing config

  4. Add ‘Routing lead time’

  5. Add ‘Planning days and time’

  6. ‘Enable Flags’ (optional) - how should the planning window unfold regarding :

    1. Enable routing planning - to enable the planning window

    2. Enable within planning window - needed for Multi window routes

    3. Enable pickups at beginning of window (first stop on route) - needed for Multi window routes

STEP 6. SERVICE CALENDARS FOR PICKUP LOCATION

Service calendars in service zones within the planning window.

Eksample: Delivery window 08:00 - 15:00

Go to Menu and tap Routing > Routing preferences> select -Pickup location

  1. Tap on ‘Delivery window’ you would like to explore

  2. Check preferences, - Remove or Edit

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