Route Optimization

Selecting the right route is often more important than rearranging the stops within a route.

We generally think of optimization as taking the six or seven addresses someone’s visiting in a day and figuring out the best driving directions to string them into an efficient route.

However, our customers often see the greatest impact by using the map to decide which route is the best fit. We call this assignment optimization as opposed to turn-by-turn optimization. If you assign a job to the wrong route, no amount of turn-by-turn efficiency will make that route less onerous.

DayBack gives you visual tools to pick the best route.

Here is what assignment optimization looks like in DayBack:

DayBack has all kinds of shortcuts to help you pick the correct route, but it’s essentially a visual decision. Schedulers are looking across all the routes for the day and selecting the ones that pass closest by the unassigned opportunity. They often try one or two routes before they find one where adding this new stop doesn’t make the day too long or add too much drive time.

Being able to quickly drag an opportunity to a route and then drag it to another one is essential. DayBack encourages this kind of playful scheduling.

Learn more about maps and drive times in our documentation, or see more of the map in action here. Once we have enabled the map for you, check out the Map Core Extensions to add map and distance behaviors to your DayBack.