What is Scheduled Routes?¶

Applies to v1.7+ · ~3 min read · Getting started

Scheduled Routes is a Windows desktop app for operations teams who plan delivery, pickup, or field-service routes every day. It takes your vehicles and the day's jobs, figures out the most efficient way to assign and sequence them, and produces ready-to-use driver manifests — all without spreadsheets or guesswork.

What the app does¶

At its core, Scheduled Routes answers one question: which driver goes where, in what order, and when?

You provide two things — your fleet and your jobs. The app's Advanced Travel Oracle engine considers each vehicle's capacity, skills, shift times, and starting location alongside each job's delivery address, time window, and size. It then produces a complete route plan: one ordered route per vehicle, with stop-by-stop estimated arrival times.

The engine gives you three ways to shape the result (called strategies):

Minimize Travel Time — least total driving across all drivers
Minimize Vehicles Used — fewest vehicles that still cover the work
Balanced Workload Among Vehicles — time and jobs spread evenly across drivers

When the engine can't place a job — for example because its time window is impossible, or a vehicle has no starting location — it lists the job as unassigned and explains why, so you can fix the data and re-optimize.

Who it's for¶

Scheduled Routes is built for dispatchers and operations staff who:

run daily or recurring delivery or pickup routes
manage a fleet of any size (a handful of vans or hundreds of vehicles)
need to hand drivers a manifest before they leave for the day

It runs locally on your workstation, so no internet connection is needed during planning.

The big-picture flow¶

You follow the same four steps every planning session:

Set up your fleet once. Import your vehicles — their capacity, skills, shift times, and depots. Your fleet carries over day to day; you don't re-import it unless something changes.
Import the day's jobs. Drag in today's delivery or pickup file. The app maps your file's columns automatically (and remembers the mapping for next time).
Choose a strategy and optimize. Pick how you want the engine to prioritize, then let it run. Review the result, check for unassigned jobs, and adjust if needed.
Export a manifest. Generate a PDF, Excel, or CSV file for each driver. Past manifests are saved in Route Plan History.

First time here?

The app opens an Onboarding wizard on your first sign-in to guide you through each step. See Onboarding wizard walkthrough.

What Scheduled Routes is not¶

Scheduled Routes handles planning — creating the optimal route for the day. It does not track live driver location or send routes to a mobile device. Once you export the manifest, dispatch is up to your team's normal process.