Manual planning and configured planning, looked at plainly

NODE 01 - WHY COMPARE

Different tools for different parts of the same job

Most dispatch teams already plan routes by hand, and often plan them well, using years of knowledge about particular streets and particular customers. A configured step does not replace that knowledge. It changes what the dispatcher starts from each morning.

The comparison below keeps to what can be said without measuring your fleet. Measured differences only appear in a review of your own records.

NODE 03 - OUR APPROACH

Configuration around your constraints, not a fixed template

We do not apply one general routing model. The setup starts from the four constraints on the home page (driver hours, vehicle capacity, agreed delivery windows and street access) and configures the planning step around those.

A dispatcher can override any suggested sequence. A day's local judgment, such as a road closure or a customer who called in, carries information that an order list does not.

NODE 04 - WHAT A REVIEW LOOKS FOR

Where the difference, if any, would show up

A utilisation review looks for journeys running well below capacity, routes that overlap between vehicles on the same day, and weekdays where fleet size and demand do not match. Some findings point at the planning step; others only need a schedule change on the planning board you already use.

Where a configured step is introduced, the month-one review compares it with earlier manual plans on equivalent days. We report what that comparison shows for your fleet, and we do not carry a figure over from anywhere else.

NODE 05 - WHAT THE FEE COVERS

Setup work, not a software licence

The fees on the offers page cover the configuration or review work itself: looking at your data, building constraints into the planning step, training dispatchers and the follow-up review. No ongoing software licence is bundled into the starting prices. Anything outside the scope in the written proposal would be agreed separately.

NODE 06 - OVER TIME

Neither approach is a one-time fix

Road works, seasonal demand and staff changes shift what a good plan looks like. A configured step needs a periodic look to stay useful, much as a hand-kept route book does. Likewise, manual planning is not inherently slow or careless; it simply takes more of the morning once a fleet grows.