Wednesday, March 29, 2006

If you have to make multiple stops during a day then it can be frustrating working out the order in which to make the calls - do you go to customer A first or customer B, which order should I deliver these parcels in, what is the optimum route for my journey?

Thankfully there is a solution.

The Magellan Roadmate 800 has multiple destination route optimisation. Enter a number of different destinations and the system calculates the optimum sequence in which to visit them.

Consider the average day for sales rep or courier - look at the appointments/calls that need to be made today, get the map, decide roughly in which order to visit each location.

Or, enter all the destinations in the Roadmate 800, click "optimise" and then start your journey!

The savings from such a system could be tremendous - consider just how many miles the average courier/sales rep covers each year - just a 5% saving (which I would imagine is more than achievable) will cover the cost of this unit in a short time relative to the lifetime of the system.

This is the sort of productivity investment that really makes sense, especially considering the recent increase in fuel prices and the detrimental effect that has had on the profitability of a lot of businesses.

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