Chapter 3 Route Scheduling
Introduction
Route scheduling is at the core of any route-based logistics business. It encompasses the methodology of planning a vehicle route with the aim to optimise the number of drops (sometimes referred to as service visits or stops) completed per hour and per route (journey, working day). This practice is a science not an “art.” Scheduling practitioners may be referred to as either “planners” or “schedulers.”
Without a formal, structured scheduling process conducted by trained scheduling practitioners, any route-based business is almost certainly going to operate sub-optimally with the result that operating costs will be unnecessarily high and productivity (drops per route) too ...
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