Routing and scheduling help

Plumbing World offers a one stop shop stocking in excess of 10,000 products available for ‘click and collect’ from its central warehouse or for delivery across the West Midlands.

“At the start of our journey with Maxoptra we operated a small fleet, mainly delivering within a 40-mile radius of the warehouse,” commented Danny Welch, warehouse and operations manager. “As the business continues to expand, and with the support of Maxoptra, we plan to increase the size of the fleet and expand our delivery area.”

Following the introduction of Maxoptra’s automated route planning and scheduling, Plumbing World has been able to reduce the time taken to plan routes from 3-4 hours per day to minutes.

“The streamlined workflow that Maxoptra provides has significantly reduced the planning task allowing us to reinvest this resource in other areas of the business,” continued Welch. “Looking into the additional functionality offered by Maxoptra we are excited by the automatic ETA notifications and the electronic POD process, which could further reduce the administrative resource of delivery planning and reporting.”