Save money and improve distribution efficiency with optimized delivery areas
Design efficient distribution zones and service areas with Paragon's territory planning and optimization software. Divide delivery regions into manageable territories with balanced workloads for improved driver productivity and transportation efficiency.
Paragon's territory planning software can help:
- Divide delivery or service regions into compact zones
- Provide a fair allocation of work to truck drivers
- Drivers develop rapport with customers
- Reduce transportation costs, improve fleet utilization and reduce overall mileage as a result of more efficient planning
When designing your delivery zones, Paragon's territory planning software uses true road-based journey calculations, taking account of highways and rivers, for example, to create compact delivery or service zones that minimize travel time between calls and provide each driver with the correct level of work each day. This enables your drivers to become totally familiar with both their work area and customer base.
"Paragon’s configurable, off-the-shelf products fulfilled almost all of our planning needs. Add to this the company’s willingness to understand our business and, in particular, enhance its Territory Optimizer module to address some very specific additional requirements and, for us, Paragon became the obvious choice." VP of Gas Supply Chain, Airgas Inc.Uses for Paragon's territory planning software
Our territory planning software is particularly well-suited to distribution, service and sales organisations. With advanced planning functions you can design service regions to suit your work profile whether you are planning zones to balance work across different days of the week, or across different drivers with their own delivery areas and regular customers.
Once efficient territories have been defined, Paragon's truck routing and delivery scheduling optimization software can be used periodically to calculate master schedules or on a daily basis to calculate routes according to the actual orders placed.
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Features of Paragon's territory planning software allow you to:
- Calculate compact zones with even workloads - each zone could represent the workload for a specific driver, day of the week, or both
- Evaluate workloads in terms of the number of driver duty days required.
- Calculate zones from scratch, or improve a current territory structure.
- Select clusters of calls to be in the same zone, which are then allocated automatically
