IER offers solutions for scheduling and optimizing pickup and delivery trips, which, as they are designed by industry professionals, improve the quality of customer service while reducing costs.

Scheduling for an optimized rhythm of pickups and deliveries
IER offers a scheduling solution that enables express package delivery operators and couriers to position the pace of pickups and deliveries in their pre-established transport plans optimally and taking full account of recipients’ constraints.

Pickup and delivery trip optimization
IER’s software solution for optimizing goods pickup and delivery trips automatically calculates and proposes an optimal itinerary, on the basis of the list of points to be served and taking into account the constraints of both the recipients and the company.
Based on a powerful calculation engine, the optimization solution, simple to implement, allows you to define:
 The positioning of the platforms and addresses to be served.
Simulation of the positioning of a new warehouse or a new address
Definition of the territorial split, according to the company’s own optimization criteria
Calculation of the new target distribution costs
Computation and comparison of the differences in distribution costs

    Territory splits
Division of a geographical zone into sectors by allocating customers and entire regions to territories
Definition of territories according to the addition or removal of certain delivery points
Inclusion of new cost parameters, such as order volume or order frequency forecasting
Optimization of the division according to your specific criteria: resizing of your distribution fleet, change in range of hours of standard trips
Immediate notification of new split-ups to your ERP.

Trip optimization
Reduction in the total number of miles covered by your fleet and thus reduction in your distribution costs
Inclusion in the calculations of a range of constraints: a customer’s opening and closing times, special services to be performed, vehicle fleets (quantity, capacity and type of trucks, sub-contracting), road constraints (Navteq or Tele Atlas maps),
Scanning of trips and readjustment in light of areas that are not subject to modeling,
Calculations of fixed transport plans for frequent customers
Dynamic meeting setting management, on-line or over the phone.

Geographical scheduling and optimization of trips: many benefits

• Reduction of the time required to calculate trips
• Elimination of useless trips
• Optimization of drivers’ schedules
• Productivity gains
• Reduction in ride time
• Reduction in the number of miles travelled and fuel costs.