This web service allows you to define optimum routes while minimising operating costs by taking into account the following: road mapping data and road characteristics data in relation to the profiles of the vehicles used - «Business» constraints that relate to (A) the «Clients» to whom deliveries will be made, who will be visited or at whose premises technical interventions are performed, and (B) the «Resources» who will be responsible for implementing the above tasks.
The optimisation service allows us to determine the best possible distribution of clients in relation to resources. It is based on:
- the geographic positions of the full set of clients and resources: a distance matrix is calculated beforehand by the route calculation functions and takes into account the profile of the vehicles used, heavy goods vehicle attributes, …
- customer constraints: time windows, quantities to deliver, special conditions or requirements, …
- parameters for resources: working hours, cost of the resource, …
The optimisation is performed by searching for the solution with the lowest overall cost on the basis of costs of resources as supplied by the user, or using the default costs supplied by the optimisation module.
