Your delivery manifests get created in the sequence that you have specified when creating your Site Delivery Routes, the deliveries are then displayed in this order on the mobile app.
You can optimise your delivery routes to minimise the amount of travelling that your drivers are doing and this can be done on either a per-day or permanent basis.
Optimise on a per-day basis
For this Manifested delivery on this specific date we want to order the sites in the optimised sequence. This is particularly useful for driver sickness or holiday.
- On the Home page, click Manifesting
- Click on the Manifest (Route) tab
- Use the search filters to find the delivery that you want to optimise and select it in the grid
- Click the Options button on the toolbar, expand the Routing sub-menu and click Optimise Route
- The map will be displayed with the original route displayed.
- Click on the Optimised tab to view the suggested route.
- Click the Accept Optimised Route button
- You will be prompted if you are sure you want update the delivery sequence. Click the Yes button.
- You will be taken back to the grid view and the sequence for this delivery will have been updated
Optimise on a permanent basis
Moving forward when creating the manifest we want to order the sites in the optimised sequence.
- On the Home page, click Scheduling
- Click on the Route Admin tab
- Use the search filters to find the sites that you want to optimise, for example a route or everything with a postcode starting “NR1”
- Click the Optimise Route button on the toolbar
- All sites currently in the grid will be optimised and the map will be displayed with the original route on
- Click on the Optimised tab to view the suggested route.
- Click the Accept Optimised Route button
- You will be prompted if you are sure you want update the delivery sequence. Click the Yes button. You will be taken back to the grid view and the sequence for the sites in your search will have been updated
A complete video walkthrough of optimising a route for both scenarios can be found below: