Route Planning Vs. Optimization: 4 Ways to Identify The Right Strategy to Maximize Efficiency

Delivery and dispatch logistics can be a pain to deal with, especially in retail and the field service industry. And you know how much your business will benefit once you figure out how to optimize and make it efficient.

Logistics in field service business

You know that you need to ensure you can accomplish three crucial things:

  • First, deliver the goods and services to each customer as soon as possible.
  • Second, finish more job orders every single day.
  • Third, reduce overhead costs such as filling up your fleet of vehicles with gas, which typically make up around 59.8% of your operational costs per mile. (1)

Achieving all three equates to efficiency, fewer expenses, and more profit.…

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