Master Routes Case Study: Milk Delivery
The Challenge
We were approached by a dairy farm to help optimize their milk deliveries in two cities in India, Mumbai and Nashik. The depot in Mumbai had 297 contracts that were serviced by 12 moped drivers while the depot in Nashik had 599 contracts that were serviced by 24 drivers. For both cities, the drivers completed their routes in about 1H30M (Mumbai = 1:33 / Nashik = 1:27).
The Solution
The assigned rep was removed from the contract and MasterRouter was allowed to select which rep would visit a customer and some wonderful results were produced.
While drivers in both cities maintained an average route time of about 1H30M, Mumbai could complete their routes with 9 drivers instead of 12 and Nashik needed 20 drivers instead of 24.
Obviously, with a decrease in the number of drivers but also with better routing, the total distance travelled by drivers dropped by 43%. The average distance driven dropped by 28%.
Zooming into the area surrounding the depot, you can see that MasterRouter has produced excellent results. The customers to the south of the depot are visited by one of three drivers where as previously it took four drivers and an additional four had also been driving through the same area.
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