Route planning and scheduling

We draw the routes and schedules your fleet runs in advance: zone boundaries, stop sequences, time windows, depot loading waves and the shift patterns that carry them. Each plan is costed per route, per vehicle and per drop.

• A zone and route design with stop counts, distances and drive time for each route.
• A depot wave plan fixing load times, cut-off times and dock sequence.
• Shift templates by day type, with the overtime they intentionally allow.
• A route cost model giving cost per stop, per kilometre and per vehicle-day.
• A planned-versus-actual review format that tells the dispatcher why a route drifted.

• Stops per route hour are counted for every route, so a slow route is visible.
• Kilometres per drop are reported, and overlapping routes show up in the number.
• Your board sees the share of routes finishing inside the planned shift.
• Overtime is planned into the shift templates.
• Fill rate of vehicles on departure is measured for every depot wave.

Routes tend to be inherited from the first driver who learned a district. They carry old customers, outdated time windows and loops that no longer match where orders come from. Vehicles leave half empty and return late, and overtime becomes normal.

• Two vehicles serve the same street on the same day.
• Drivers finish at very different times on routes that look the same on paper.
• Overtime is paid every week and no one has planned it.
• Customers in one district are promised windows the depot cannot meet.
• Adding a new customer means asking a driver where he can fit it.

Distributors, retail chains, grocery and subscription businesses and 3PL operators with scheduled volume, and boards watching fuel, overtime and vehicle hours grow faster than deliveries.

Qasim Abbas has spent more than 16 years inside Gulf family-based and venture-backed groups, and treats a route plan as a cash decision before an operational one. Your schedule is built to end in a cost per drop the board can sign.

We build the plan in a model we hand to you, load it into whatever planning or dispatch software the group runs and test it by simulating a past week. See how fees work.

How do you handle customers with fixed delivery days?

Fixed days become constraints in the model, and the paper shows what each one costs. Some customers will accept a different day for a small incentive.

How does route planning connect to dispatch?

Planned routes feed the dispatch rules that assign each order on the day, and the planned-versus-actual review shows the dispatcher why a route drifted.

What does the board sign?

A cost per drop. Every plan is costed per route, per vehicle and per drop before the first vehicle leaves.

Give us one depot's route list at a private briefing. We tell you how many of its routes overlap and what that costs each month.