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NBT Stage 2 Blog Entry Yiğit Konuk How to Ensure Driver Safety with Route Optimization Excellence in logistic operations is key to success. Whether you’re an army, a truck fleet, FMCG company or even a simple ice-cream van; it’s essential. That is why, efforts for the planning and the perfect, impeccable execution of the logistic operations have always been parallel to the importance of it. Route planning, fleet assignments, packaging and handling operations… It was an organisation within a larger organisation, all by itself. Through that pursuit of excellence and impeccable timing; one important aspect is often disregarded: driver safety. Whether it’s motored couriers or truck drivers, safety is a major issue, especially in today’s logistical environment. Well, it was until now. At the height of the digitalisation trend, Optiyol steps in to save the day for the logistic executives and the responsables in all stages of the operation with it’s digital solutions such as route optimization, which ensures drivers’ as well as the fleet’s safety, faster deliveries and reduces the operational costs. Sounds interesting, isn’t it? That’s not even half of it. Let’s dive into what Optiyol is first. Not Just a Solution, an Industrial Resolution Optiyol helps you; the organisation, to better manage your distribution network through order-based transportation planning and dynamic route optimization. With Optiyol on your side, it’s never too late and never too far. You can automate and optimize delivery planning for the optimal result and much better results in customer service. For the sake of clarity, let’s dive deeper into how it actually works. Pickup/Delivery Route Optimization Optiyol’s first and foremost solution is Pickup/ Delivery Route Optimization. This includes several services and digital solutions which ensures the safety of the drivers; optimisation of the delivery speed and thus saves time. Optiyol handles the fleet management through it’s optimization software by determining how many and what types of vehicles should be used. After that, it determines how should the orders be assigned to selected vehicles. This improves fleet safety, reduces the number of stops and efficiency. However, these are not where the magic happens. Optiyol also schedules the visits for deliveries and sequences them thanks to its route optimization software. This makes sure you’re always on-time, at the right place and in the right order. Through this, Optiyol minimizes costs for you, improves customer satisfaction, saves time as well as reducing the fuel, operation, maintenance costs. Any of these should be enough to make logistics wonders; yet Optiyol has one other trick in its sleeve. After finding the best route, planning the delivery, ensuring the fleet safety and mapping out the time windows, the dispatched fleet is monitored still. This way, driver safety and the favourable delivery pace is ensured through real time route optimization. All these combined, Optiyol ensures the logistics operations run as smoothly and optimal both cost and timewise. While single-handedly doing these, Optiyol ensures drivers’ safety and solves an age-long issue in the industry that is overlooked. How? Well, here’s how… Driver Safety with Route Optimization Through it’s algorithms, Optiyol brings together the best field teams. This not only ensures the best possible cooperation, speed and efficiency but also assigns tasks in accordance with the skills of the teams. What’s best is that through its route optimization software, Optiyol keeps the appointment times and working hours in in the database and plans visit frequencies, delivery scheduling, business volumes according to the territories. Another key factor contributing to the driver safety is through Optiyol’s ability to track fleets and individuals, thus providing visibility to managers and supervisors as well as the authorities in a case of emergency. It also ensures that every address is the right one, plans a route according to the traffic, safety, and optimal speed. All these aspects coming together, there is no hustle for the drivers or for the field teams so long as they have Optiyol on their side. And the bright side is, all it takes for it is a mobile device. From the point of view of the drivers, Optiyol makes everything much easier and more optimal with its route optimisation software. You; as a driver, can follow the planned routes smoothly with navigation via android & IOS devices. Each individual of the field team can use the barcode reader through the app and thus ensure right orders are loaded to each vehicle, perfecting the fleet management through every level of operation. Despite Optiyol’s best efforts to give you the best route, schedule and sequence the deliveries, accounting safety and the traffic; if you are still somehow miraculously delayed, no problem! You can indicate the reason of your delay through the app at an instance. You can also enable proof-of-delivery through on screen signatures, reports, or photos. Alternatively, you can always put in some human incentive to your operations as the field team is you didn’t like the route planned for you. You can make changes, create alternative routes, and ensure you do what’s best and safest for you, the field team. If any question comes to mind, it is easy to simply take up your phone and see all orders on the map or as a scrollable list, as well as their ETA’s. You can also share information with both parties related to the arrival time and order completion. More and more, any member of the field team can. Communicate with the customer, when necessary, via call, chat or push notification, keeping the customer updated. Safest and fastest routes, instant communication with both parties, detailed information on the deliveries and every available tool for the driver to track their operations? With Optiyol and its route optimization software, driver safety is a concern of the past. This right here is the future of logistics operations. Optimize your logistics Still, don’t hear it only from us. Optiyol has served the best interests and paved the way for success of major international brands, and their logistics operations. Ask for a demo yourself now, so that you can see first-hand how drastically you can enhance your logistics performance as well as the safety of your field teams, especially the drivers.