Supply Chain & Distribution Specialist
Delivery route planning is the practice of organising deliveries so drivers spend less time driving and more time delivering: cluster orders by area, sequence stops efficiently, and schedule around customer time windows and driver capacity.
Every kilometre a delivery vehicle drives that doesn't move a product is pure cost. Poor route planning shows up as fuel bills, overtime, late deliveries, and drivers quitting. Good planning fixes all four.
Start with the fundamentals before buying any software.
Every evening, run the next day's plan: pull confirmed orders, cluster them, assign routes, and share the manifest with drivers. A 15-minute routine beats an ad-hoc scramble every morning.
Track stops per hour, kilometres per delivery, and on-time rate. When one of these drifts, fix the plan, not the driver — the data shows where the problem lives.
Organising deliveries so drivers spend less time driving: clustering stops, sequencing trips, and respecting time windows.
Cluster orders by area, sequence stops to avoid backtracking, respect time windows, and balance driver loads.
Stops per hour, kilometres per delivery, and on-time rate.
Daily, the evening before, once orders are confirmed — a 15-minute routine beats a morning scramble.
Yes. Retten Work manages dispatch, manifests, and delivery tracking from one dashboard.
