TourSolver for Windows lets you optimize delivery and pick up route plans. It is the ideal easy-to-implement office solution for companies wishing to adopt a simple tool with a rapid return on investment.
Locating customers and resources
Easy integration and automatic placement of customers and resources on the map.
Sophisticated constraint configuration
User-friendly wizard for configuring customer, agent and vehicle constraints.
Optimization of group plans
Reduction in distance covered and logistics costs, fleet sizing, emergency management.
Geographical representation and analysis
Resource assignment, districting, definition of delivery areas, siting of depots
Positioning customers and vehicles
Addresses are geo-coded by logging into the databases or simply by dragging and dropping the file on the map. The solution can also display vehicle location in real time.
Configuring constraints
TourSolver takes account of all business constraints, no matter how complex:
- customers: hours, visit frequency… ;
- mobile field forces: working hours, overnight stays, skills… ;
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vehicles: capacity, traffic constraints… ;
- operating costs: hourly costs, fixed costs using the vehicles or not, overall journey cost or by distance threshold…
Route optimization
TourSolver defines the optimal scheduling of your routes. You track the cost changes and savings generated by the optimization. In an emergency, you directly amend the visit sequence in the Gantt chart.
Route plan simulation
Simulate adding vehicles and the cost impact, calculate the advantages or otherwise of subcontracting rather than bringing deliveries in-house… : the planner can study different scenarios and make the best decisions.
Publishing the optimized routes
TourSolver for Windows enables you to export the schedules and routes of each of the drivers in Excel, Word, text or GPX format.
The optimization results can also be sent to vehicle tracking services, on-board navigation systems or electronic diaries.
Geographical analysis
Optimized resource allocation, definition of realistic delivery areas, simulating the siting of depots… The geographical analysis features in TourSolver for Windows* enable you to make the best decisions in terms of organization and sales development.
* in combination with the Geoconcept GIS