Take the Wheel With Routing Software for Logistics

Definitely—Aptean's routing and scheduling software, Paragon Route 360, lets you manage vehicle resources across any number of depots, and it works for integrated fleets by allowing you to plan vehicle resources across multiple sites as a single transportation resource. The route planning functionality can be configured according to your requirements, whether your vehicles have fixed depot assignments or variable. The solution can also help you move goods between sites and use backhaul capabilities to increase efficiency.

With business intelligence functionality, our routing software enables you to sort data, filter for what you need, configure custom tables and generate reports based on either pre-built templates or your specifications. Customizable and persona-based dashboards help you identify meaningful trends and areas for improvement like imbalanced vehicle utilization or excessive fuel costs by visualizing key performance metrics.

Additionally, AppCentral’s generative AI can answer natural language queries, giving you instant insights into your business data without having to hunt down the facts and figures you need. And because the platform automatically integrates all your Aptean solutions, this intelligent assistant provides responses that account for the data across your entire operation, so you can be sure that all its suggestions are made with complete context.

While our routing engine automates the planning process, your planners can customize and configure the rules according to your planners’ local knowledge, and our built-in AI routing assistant will learn from their changes to improve routes in the future. You can also edit maps and configure zones according to your requirements. That way, you can ensure that your vehicles have the smoothest and most efficient route possible given the conditions.

The dynamic rolling schedule feature of our route planning software lets you view all in-progress routes and adjust future routes to accommodate delays and changes. But for full visibility and control, route execution capabilities are the perfect complement to route planning software. After all, even the best route plans are useless if your drivers choose to rely on their navigation systems instead. And that’s why we offer a Live Routing Toolkit for Paragon Route 360.

Its waypoint mapping feature feeds plans to your drivers’ navigation systems, providing turn-by-turn instructions. The software also lets you proactively track conditions and re-allocate loads as needed with the dynamic tripping tool. What’s more, our solution makes running multi-trip routes easier, mitigating and sometimes altogether preventing exceptions and delays—keeping both customer service and efficiency on track.

No problem—with our home delivery software, you get the power of a real-time routing engine built for organizations with omnichannel operations or customer-specified delivery times. It offers a real-time routing engine that builds schedules dynamically as orders are received. You’ll be able to present tailored time slots to your customers that both meet their needs and ensure efficiency for you. That means you can shape demand to your operation and set expectations you can consistently meet.

As you know, routing and scheduling software lets you optimize routes, manage vehicle utilization and model scenarios for strategic route planning, helping you reduce transportation costs and making your operations more efficient. If your company is a logistics and transportation business, or a manufacturer that transports its own goods, you can benefit from this solution.

A transportation management system (TMS) facilitates shipping and logistics processes, whether it’s moving raw materials from suppliers to producers or finished goods from warehouses to customers. If your operation is a logistics provider, distributor, shipper or other transportation business, you should consider TMS, with some systems suiting certain operations better than others.

For more, check out the full scope of transportation management solutions, as well as the many manufacturing software systems.

While individual situations vary, our average implementation time for Paragon Route 360 is 10-12 weeks. This can be accelerated by choosing to deploy from the cloud on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, which requires no additional hardware, provides world-class cybersecurity protection and greater scalability as your business grows.

We help you create a roadmap with milestones to achieve and also ensure that the software is configured to your operation’s unique requirements. Leading up to, during and after system rollout, you receive ongoing support and training from dedicated and knowledgeable professionals. Plus, AppCentral’s built-in knowledge base provides a wealth of educational material to lower the learning curve for employees so they can drive value from day one.

When the Paragon solution suite was added to our portfolio, we knew we needed to carry on that brand’s heritage of trusted logistics and delivery systems. Everything that made Paragon's software great is intact in our next-generation routing and scheduling system, Paragon Route 360, and we've simply built on and refined it to make it better and easier to use.

Brands like Martin Brower and Warburton's chose Paragon to provide their mission-critical route optimization solution, and they’ve stuck with Aptean as a recognized leader in enterprise technology. In other words, we're continuing Paragon’s 30-plus-year legacy and are dedicated to continuous development and improvement of our solutions to better serve our customers.