Linking Route Planning and ERP boosts your revenue.
Experience from manufacturing companies shows that a direct integration between route planning software and the ERP system can quickly impact the bottom line. When the route planner pulls live data on orders, stock and capacity from the ERP, you not only get more accurate delivery schedules, you also reduce wasted kilometers, minimize the need for buffer stock and create a better basis for “production to order”.
In short, the integration gives you control over the entire chain – from production order to delivery – and frees up resources that can instead be used to create value for customers.
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Internal savings by linking route planning and erp
With a modern route planning solution that is closely connected to your ERP system, you can reap many measurable and tangible benefits – but what would they actually mean for your business?
Fuel and energy consumption:
A reduction of eight, ten or maybe twelve percent per kilometer.
Extra earnings, extra deliveries or service visits, less environmental impact.
Driver time and overtime:
If your drivers each save a good hour of wasted time daily, this affects overtime payouts, compliance with driving/rest times and, not least, job satisfaction.
Multiple orders can be served with the same staffing.
Vehicle and tire wear:
Fewer stops, smoother acceleration and shorter trip distances reduce stress on brakes, tires and powertrain.
Impact on annual workshop bills and lifetime per vehicle.
IT and administration efficiency:
Every order that flows flawlessly from sales to logistics without manual keystrokes saves both minutes and potential errors. Eliminating five or six keystrokes per order, how many hours would your administration gain back each week, and what more value-adding tasks could they do?
Capital tied up in the fleet:
Better capacity utilization means the next car purchase can be postponed.
Extend the life of the existing fleet, freeing up cash.
External benefits of route planning + erp integration
When route planning and ERP integration start to impact the market and customers directly, the benefits quickly turn into fierce competitiveness – but what will they actually do for you?
Fewer delivery errors and penalties:
Better route planning ensures fewer penalties when the number of faulty deliveries drops significantly.
The company’s earnings are affected if there is a 35% drop in fines.
In addition, customer service no longer has to spend time handling complaints.
Stronger SLA compliance:
Increasing your delivery accuracy from 92% to 98% has a significant impact on how many more reorders or framework agreement extensions can be negotiated.
Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty:
Automatic ETA text messages, live tracking and fewer errors have a positive impact on customer loyalty and satisfaction, affecting sales, your churn rate and offer hit rates.
Visibly lower carbon footprint:
A reduction of 120 tons of CO₂ per year can be converted into tangible ESG points, which are decisive in many tenders. New customer segments and public contracts could become a reality with a focus on carbon footprint.
Fewer claims and insurance claims:
Quieter driving and fewer start-stops minimize damage. A decrease in fex 18% means lower deductibles and premium reductions. Wasted time in the workshop and claims reporting will also be affected in the right direction.
Route planning environment and erp coupling
Beyond the financial gains, intelligent route and ERP optimization provides a number of very tangible environmental benefits that translate directly into both ESG points and competitive strength.
A better driving profile means fewer cold engine starts and up to 10% lower fuel consumption – but what would that CO₂ reduction mean for your Scope 1 reporting and ranking in the next sustainability rating?
Less idling and less harsh acceleration also cuts down on NOₓ and PM₂.₅ particles, which are under increasing regulatory pressure especially in urban zones; how many green zones could your cars travel in now without additional taxes?
Fewer stop-and-go maneuvers reduce tire wear and release fewer microplastic fibers into the roadside ditch – an often overlooked but growing focus area in EU legislation.
An even load on batteries and regenerative braking extends the range of electric vehicles, reducing the number of charging cycles and wear and tear on expensive lithium-ion cells; what would this mean for the lifetime cost of your electric fleet?
Finally, the system facilitates your data capture: fuel sensors, GPS logs and ERP transactions are merged into one reliable source that can feed both CDP reporting and carbon accounting – how much time and consulting fees could you save by automating that process?
Future solutions
Today we already connect route planning solutions with many ERP solutions, see a selection of the solutions here: LINK
Furthermore, our goal is to support route planning with features that show the consequences of changes you plan to make BEFORE you make them.
In the future, route planning will also pre-calculate which actual costs are to be included.
Operating costs car, staff, in addition, there are many external factors today such as tolls, environmental zones, multimodal routes, differentiation on fuel (EL, Diesel, HVO etc.).
This will mean a circular value back to the sales and / or pricing department.
Pre- and post-simulation of logistics will play a bigger role in determining where optimization and thus increased profitability can be achieved.
Route planning+erp=increased earnings
We mean business, your business!
Solutions must create value for users. Through experience and technology, linking systems has become commonplace. Set against the potential value of route planning + ERP, it’s a great solution to look into.
What does it mean for production and warehousing? Can we simulate scenarios based on anonymized data?
Value of route planning + erp
Searching the web and estimating profit potential yields the following sobering values: 19% revenue growth, 30% time and fuel savings and up to 82% shorter planning time. Up to -30% lower transportation costs, faster planning (hours → minutes) and more deliveries per car per day. Users achieve 25-75% shorter planning time, 5-20% fewer miles driven and measurable revenue growth through real-time optimization. 41% of companies that adopt advanced IT report higher profits.
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