Why you should test the AntsRoute software

You are looking to make travel miles profitable and save planning time to focus on your customers.

Duration

Required time: 2 hours

Purpose of this test

During this test, we will ask you to analyze a delivery day and carry out a comparison between the routes planned by your schedulers in 1 or 2 hours and those determined by AntsRoute in 10 minutes.

The objective of this test is not to assess the performance of your schedulers. The objective is to evaluate a decision making support tool that will help schedulers to cut down planning time and focus on customer support.

Scope

2 to 5 vehicles around a depot.

The 3 stages necessary to test the AntsRoute route optimization software

1. Prepare required data (30 minutes)

What data is needed to test the AntsRoute route optimization software in the field of fuel delivery?

First, you must prepare the data about your vehicles to carry out this test:

• Number plate,
• Number of compartments and the volume of each compartment,
• Brand of volumetric flow counters if trucks are equipped.

Then, you must give information about depots:

• Address of depots,
• For each depot: Number of loading docks, Fuel products available.

The analysis will be then about drivers:

• Usual working hours,
• Type of break: time slot, duration of break.

Finally, you must provide excel file with your planned routes on a typical day. For each order of the route, the test requires the following information:

• Customer last name and address (it can be the depot if it is a loading),
• The product and the quantity delivered,
• Customer promise in terms of delivery time (time slot),
• The truck assigned and the order of this delivery in the route planned by your schedulers.

2. Start your free trial (5 minutes)

After gathering required data to carry out the test, you can create your account (no credit card required) directly via our interface https://app.antsroute.com/subscription to ensure the data privacy.

3. Contact the AntsRoute experts (45 minutes)

Once your subscription is done, contact us (via the bot available on the website) or by phone at +33372744971. We will turn your newly created account into a “fuel” account and we will make the first import of routes together. It will take only 45 minutes to become autonomous with the software during your free trial.