Route Planning for Efficient Food and Beverage Logistics

Boost your food and beverage logistics performance by efficiently planning routes while ensuring the right vehicle types, categories, and dimensions are matched to each order.

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Tackle Real World Constraints with NextBillion.ai's Advanced Routing Solutions

Multi-Dimensional Capacity Planning

Efficiently plan deliveries for temperature-sensitive and refrigerated goods alongside regular shipments.

Optimizing Costs with Mixed Fleets and Smart Carrier Selection

Manage rising transportation costs by optimizing mixed fleets of private and contracted vehicles & leveraging flexible cost models.

Delivery Truck Compliant Routes

Enhance route efficiency by generating routes based on cargo type, restricted areas, and truck dimensions.

Seamless Management of Large Scale Deliveries

Ensure timely deliveries and reduce logistics costs by implementing optimized routing and scheduling solutions to manage frequent and large scale delivery needs.

Streamlining Delivery Complexity With Time Constraints

Manage delivery complexity by incorporating all necessary parameters and time constraints like working hour limits, break requirements, etc.

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Solve Challenges around Food and Beverage
Delivery Instances

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Wholesale Food Distribution

Get optimized long-haul routes to support bulk delivery of food and beverages to wholesalers, distributors and retailers

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Cold Chain
Logistics

Optimize routes for refrigerated and non-refrigerated deliveries, ensuring timely arrivals and minimizing transit time.

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Grocery & Supermarket Distribution

Efficiently manage multi-drop routes to ensure timely fulfillment of high-demand beverage and food deliveries.

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Food Manufacturing and Processing Distribution

Streamline long-haul routes with efficient facility coordination and specialized transport for bulk and hazardous food-grade materials.

Why Food and Beverage Delivery
Companies are using NextBillion.ai

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Industry
Expertise

Proven industry expertise in food and beverage delivery, ensuring optimized solutions tailored to your business needs.

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Flexible
Pricing

Experience flexibility in your payment model—choose between asset-based pricing or task-based pricing for your food and beverage delivery solutions.

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One-Stop
Solution

Access end-to-end APIs, SDKs, and mapping tools to effortlessly scale your existing food and beverage delivery solutions.

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Exceptional
Support

Stay connected with our support teams to ensure a smooth and seamless transition from testing to deployment.

Integrate Seamlessly With Top Enterprise Clouds, ERPs and CRMs

Add advanced routing and dispatch capabilities to your telematics and ERP systems.

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Frequently asked questions

Features

Optimized routing helps in enabling food and beverage delivery businesses to incorporate real-time traffic insights into their existing routing plan. This dynamic optimization helps in enhancing the quality and SLA adherence of food and beverage delivery processes. Read here in detail about the Route Optimization API.

Yes, with multi-dimensional capacity planning, food and beverage delivery businesses can plan to keep refrigerated and non-refrigerated deliveries simultaneously. Based on the specific order requirements, operations managers can enroute the deliveries to the selected fleets. Learn more.

By leveraging dynamic scheduling and real-time route optimization, the solution helps in ensuring the efficient planning of multiple deliveries within tight time frames, reduces operational costs, and adapts to fluctuating demand.

Yes, the platform is designed to support both large-scale and small-scale deliveries with its scalable and flexible architecture. It efficiently handles high delivery volumes for large-scale operations, such as corporate events or retail chains, while also optimizing routes and resources for smaller, individualized deliveries.

The solution leverages advanced algorithms to match delivery demands with the existing fleet availability. It considers factors such as vehicle capacity, load weight, volume, and delivery constraints to allocate resources efficiently.
By optimizing load distribution across the fleet, it minimizes empty miles, reduces costs, and ensures maximum utilization of available vehicles while maintaining timely and accurate deliveries.

By integrating advanced route optimization API that considers multiple parameters such as delivery windows, driver working hours, service times, and transit limits, businesses can smartly manage and optimize the route planning and delivery.
Real-time data and predictive analytics ensure dynamic adjustments to routes, accommodating delays or priority changes. By balancing these constraints with operational efficiency, the solution ensures on-time deliveries, compliance with regulations, and optimal resource utilization. Learn more.

Custom cost parameters can be incorporated into route planning by tailoring the optimization algorithm to account for specific business needs, such as fuel costs, toll charges, driver wages, and vehicle maintenance expenses. Learn more about custom cost parameters.

Pricing

The solution offers flexible pricing options, allowing you to choose between asset-based pricing or task-based pricing, tailored specifically for your food and beverage delivery needs.

There are no hidden charges involved. You will be billed based on your usage or the pricing model you select. Additionally, if you choose any add-on features, they will be charged separately. For more information around pricing, you can visit this link.

Yes, we do offer flexible pricing plans based on your specific business sizes. You can connect with our sales representatives to understand in detail about our pricing plans.

If you choose for high delivery volumes, you might opt for a pricing structure that supports specifically either asset based pricing or task based pricing. Based on your usage, you will be billed and you can also ask for group discounts in case of bulk delivery volumes.

Yes, with the optimization of tasks and routes, you can expect more deliveries from a single fleet. This reduces the fuel consumption, idle time of resources and allows maximum deliveries in one go. This will result in reducing the overall logistics cost of your business.

Speed, Security & Scalability

The platform suggests the most optimal route along with real-time insights like traffic conditions, any road closures nearby and more. These suggestions help in generating a quick route plan that supports fast and safe deliveries.

The platform features geofencing capabilities, enabling the setup of virtual boundaries for your moving fleet. If a vehicle takes an unexpected turn or deviates from its designated route, automatic alerts are triggered, ensuring that relevant stakeholders are notified immediately. Check more details around geofencing here.

Yes, with the optimized routing algorithm the platform can accommodate fluctuations in order volume, ensuring seamless operations even during peak periods.

Scalability boosts operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, minimizing downtime, and ensuring seamless performance during demand surges. It reduces costs, enhances customer satisfaction with reliable service, and enables businesses to adapt quickly to market changes.

Testing and Deployment

Based on the API calls used, complexity of the system and the architectural requirements, the timeline might differ. However, to know in detail about the timeline, you can discuss the specific use case with our experts.

The nextbillion.ai platform supports seamless integration with multiple and diverse systems in the logistics ecosystem. You can go through the integration document here to understand it better.

A dedicated account manager will always be there round the clock to help you and your team in case of any query or challenge that might occur during the testing and deployment phase.

Yes, we can easily customize our deployment process based on the specific requirements of the businesses. In case of any specific ask, please feel free to speak with your account manager or sales representative.