Features
Route planner
Builds every van's round automatically, in driving order, and rebuilds it the moment a late order lands.
Route planner, from Market Run by Titan Studio AI, splits a day's orders across the vehicles a food wholesaler actually owns and builds each round in driving order, respecting time windows, payload, chilled space, licence class and drivers' hours. It rebuilds automatically the moment a late order or a short pick changes it.
A whiteboard and a person's memory of the roads can plan two vans. It struggles at six, and it cannot see a driver's hours or a chilled compartment already full. Route planner uses the same information a good dispatcher already uses - it is simply built every day, for every van, in the time it takes to read this sentence.
How it works
- 01Every priced order for the day feeds the plan, with its delivery window - the hours a customer has agreed to accept a drop in - and what it actually weighs.
- 02Drops are spread across the vans you own, respecting payload, chilled compartments, licence class and each driver's hours.
- 03The round is built in driving order, not the order the orders arrived in.
- 04A late order can join a round that has not left yet, without disturbing what has already been picked.
- 05The driver's phone shows one thing: where next, and how to get in. Not a spreadsheet to interpret.
What one day's plan looks like
What it replaces
Route planner replaces a whiteboard and a person working the round out by hand. What took half an hour to plan is built in a few seconds once the orders are in.
What it works with
- Buy listThe picking sheet behind a round comes from the same day's buy list.
- Driver's phoneThe finished round loads straight onto the driver's own phone.
- Google Maps, Apple Maps, WazeEach stop opens in the driver's own maps app, in the order the round was built.
Plainly
What it will not do on its own
- It does not choose your vans or your drivers for you. It plans against the fleet and the shifts you give it.
- It will not route around a closure it has not been told about. A driver can still override a stop order.
- It does not replace a driver's own judgement at the door. It gets them there in the right order.
What it replaces
A whiteboard and a person working the round out by hand.
Time it saves
A six-van night that takes the best part of half an hour to plan by hand is built in a few seconds once the orders are in.
Worth in money
Say that half hour is a dispatcher on £13 an hour - a bit over £6 back every night the round is built, about £35 across a six-night week.
Questions people ask
- What does route planner actually do?
- It splits a day's orders across the vehicles a wholesaler owns and builds each round in driving order, respecting time windows, payload, chilled space, licence class and drivers' hours, rather than leaving a person to plan it on a whiteboard.
- Does it work with more than one van?
- Yes. It plans across however many vehicles are entered, including different compartment types for chilled and ambient stock.
- What happens if an order comes in late?
- It can be added to a round that has not yet left, without disturbing the pick already done for the rest of that round.
- Does the driver need signal?
- The round loads before the van leaves and works with no signal in a loading bay, catching up once there is a connection.
Give us one night.
Send us one evening's orders. We run the night next to you. In the morning you compare the two.