Route planning software and route optimization

Forward-looking route scheduling with PLANTOUR

Route planning software and route optimization

PLANTOUR – the cross-industry route scheduling

Discover PLANTOUR 23, the best route planning tool we have ever developed.

PLANTOUR integrates seamlessly and easily into your system landscape and supports you in the execution of all scheduling business processes from strategic, tactical and operational planning to execution and subsequent controlling.

Safe in the hybrid cloud

PLANTOUR relies on the full scope of MAPSERVICES and provides all functions as a hybrid cloud installation, i.e. all storage-intensive calculations take place in the ISO-certified PASS Cloud, but your data remains in-house. No sensitive customer data is transferred to the cloud for planning and optimization. So you get the best of both worlds: Your data secure on your network, and powerful route optimization with minimal local hardware requirements.

Cloud is a no-go for you? Of course, there are also complete on-premise installation options.

Our route planning with PLANTOUR is so easy and user-friendly.

Savings Calculator

Determine your cost reduction through optimized route planning

Find out how much money you can save by using our intelligent route planning software PLANTOUR! Our savings calculator shows you your individual cost saving in real time.

 

May we introduce - your digital dispatcher 4.0

Thanks to the interaction of PLANTOUR and MAPSERVICES, we deliver an optimization approach that is unique on the market. Using artificial intelligence methods, our PASS Optimization Services (POS) replicates the procedures and strategies of a human dispatcher, combines them into different variants, takes into account the planning preferences and wishes of the human dispatcher, and performs countless planning operations in the millisecond range to produce the best result for you.
Tell POS your preferences on how you want your result to look like, and POS tries to take this into account. Interrupt the optimization at any time and continue it at a later time, even with changed parameters. POS remembers the previous good results and builds on them. This way, POS permanently learns what your preferences are and will generate disposition suggestions based on this.

And the best thing is: we can usually teach POS new strategies or individual rules with little effort, in order to precisely map your individual planning preferences. While classical route planning methods work with specialized algorithms or heuristics, which have different strengths or weaknesses depending on the task, POS enables a very broad approach, which solves your requirements PASS-exactly.

Core features of our route planning software

Different planning options

Different planning options

Free route optimization, framework route planning or manual planning via drag & drop - or all together. You plan, we deliver the tool.

Individual & current road network

Individual & current road network

Benefit from the automatic updates of the road data and edit the road attributes according to your needs and requirements.

Multiday planning

Multiday planning

Whether single or multiple use of vehicles over one or several days with and without overnight stay. Just as your business needs.

Modern design

Modern design

Our complete design was revised according to modern UX aspects and new visualization elements were created to provide an even better overview.

Key figure-based planning

Key figure-based planning

Define when planning is good with your own quality criteria. Our tour planning software allows you to model individual KPIs.

Live tour handling

Live tour handling

Use your existing or one of our telematics systems to track live scheduled tours and respond to schedule deviations.

Customizing

Customizing

Our scheduling software adapts to your workflow without programming - and not the other way around.

Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid Cloud

Sensitive data on your premises, compute-intensive operations anonymously in the ISO-certified PASS Cloud. This keeps your local hardware requirements to a minimum.

Further features of PLANTOUR

  • automatic set-up and expansion planning
  • can be integrated into terminal server environments
  • simulation of various planning variants

  • planning on the map, the grid or both at the same time
  • detailed authorization management
  • multi-user & multi-organization through client servers

  • individual KPIs for measurement of planning quality
  • quick help via remote support
  • multilingual - more than 10 languages

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Benefits of our route planning software

dispatcher

dispatcher

  • Expert system saves time and frees up space for other activities
  • Quick overview of planning-relevant key figures and on the map
  • Simple digital interface to drivers via apps
company

company

  • Cost optimization through route planning
  • Transparency through complete digitalization of the supply chain
  • Professional tools simplify complex route planning
customers

customers

  • Increased customer loyalty through adherence to schedules
  • Fast response to schedule changes
  • Digital integration into the delivery process
environment

environment

  • Reduction of CO2 emissions by:
    • Saving kilometers and
    • Conservation of resources

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Cross-industry route planning software and route optimization

Our customers come from more than 20 different industries. Is your industry not included? Contact us, we can certainly help you and check your individual requirements.

Food and non-food retail

Food and non-food retail

Food and non-food retail
  • Orders up to colli level
  • Support of multi-day tours
  • Empties and pallet management
Furniture trade

Furniture trade

Furniture trade
  • Planning of 2-man crew and rendezvous transports
  • Consideration of work values
  • Collection in external warehouse
Forwarding and transport

Forwarding and transport

Forwarding and transport
  • Different delivery addresses and one-time customers
  • Direct transports (pickup & delivery)
  • Planning according to postal code areas
Beverage wholesalers and breweries

Beverage wholesalers and breweries

Beverage wholesalers and breweries
  • Consideration of complicating factors and special vehicles (side loaders)
  • Driver-customer loyalty through frame tours
  • Empties management
Building materials and construction industry

Building materials and construction industry

Building materials and construction industry
  • Planning in bulk or general cargo
  • Consideration of hazardous material points (ADR)
  • Alternative loading points
Money and value transport

Money and value transport

Money and value transport
  • Cash in / Cash out / Pickup / Delivery
  • Special personnel / vehicle group restriction
  • Rendezvous orders, e.g. for ATM special filling
CEP services

CEP services

CEP services
  • Consideration of standard delivery areas
  • Special planning mode for areas / neighborhoods
  • Collection and distribution
Pharmaceutical and pharmacy delivery

Pharmaceutical and pharmacy delivery

Pharmaceutical and pharmacy delivery
  • Cut-off times for individual orders
  • Consideration of fine-granular time windows
  • Strategic planning for outsourcing

Lightweight web app and integration of route planning into your in-house systems

Do you only plan sporadically or do you only have a very small fleet, so that a tour planning system is supposedly not worthwhile? Or are you looking for a solution that you can transparently integrate directly into your own ERP or TMS systems? Then find out more about our MAPSERVICES.

Our customers

These companies already use route scheduling today:

Logo Ahlers Getränke

PASS is your competent partner

for more than 30  years

more than 100  installations

mor than 500  users

in 7  European countries


Our added values for your company

Industry know-how

  • We understand the language and requirements of the industries
  • Solution for special challenges such as customer opening times or availability of the orders
  • Reference installation for companies operating nationwide

Algorithm know-how

  • Algorithms developed by PASS for strategic and operational optimization tasks
  • Result of several man-years of development, tried and tested in practical applications
  • Meeting industry-specific requirements by means of targeted algorithms

100 % autonomy

  • PASS is a true optimizer with no third-party components, no white labeling of basic components such as geocoding or optimization algorithms
  • TomTom as partner for geodata in raw format for optimal network coverage

Additional logistics solution

Take advantage of another program from our logistics portfolio directly in PLANTOUR. The complete integration enables highest efficiency in the evaluation of location issues.

 Location planning and optimization

Location planning and optimization

Location matters: strategic location optimization

Evaluate and optimize cost structures on the basis of customer and depot locations by means of a simulation directly on the basis of operative data from route planning and thus improve your supply structures.

Supplemental add-ons

In addition to the integration of further logistics software, our route planning software can be extended with further components to add functionality.

 

Packaging materials management

No more lost pallets

Do you want transparency with regard to your loading equipment in circulation? The loss due to lost loading equipment quickly amounts to several thousand euros, even for small businesses.

Forget about the use of paper-pallet notes. With the loading equipment management in PLANTOUR and the connected telematics, you automatically manage the loading equipment account towards your customers during order processing with the mobile terminal. You are now able to evaluate the account balance in the planning center. The module can be used for any type of loading equipment as well as for empties.

Delivery notification

Inform your customers directly from the planning stage

Offer top service and avoid waiting times by using the notification module. After completion of the planning process, the planned arrival time is communicated directly from PLANTOUR via mouse click.

If you use our route planning software together with the telematics solution, planning deviations can be transmitted automatically or automatic reminders can be sent by using geofencing such as: “Your order will be delivered to your location in approximately 60 minutes”.

Tour number matrix

Complex score tours without ERP system

You have complex distributed branch deliveries throughout the week, and would like to display these in score tours? Usually, score tours are specified by the ERP system in which the route number for an order has already been specified before the route scheduling.

With the Tour Number Matrix Module, you can also model complex score tours in PLANTOUR without an ERP system by simply specifying the number per weekday with the customer. You work independently from the ERP system and control the scheduling from where it belongs: directly in the route planning software.

PLANTOUR Business Intelligence

Informed at a glance

Our standard route planning software already offers comprehensive reporting options, both with pre-defined standard reports and with the option of integrating individual customer reports.

We have created the PLANTOUR BI interface for those who would like to gain a deeper insight into the data. The module allows you to integrate the PLANTOUR database into your existing business intelligence tool or you can entrust us with the implementation of your individual analysis requirements in a BI tool.

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Frequently asked questions by our customers

Michael Bils

Business Development Manager Logistics

PASS Consulting Group

+49 60 21 . 38 81 75 46

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