# Create Cost-Effective Routes and Maximize Fleet Efficiency with Route Planner

Automatically apply your unique constraints to route plans for faster route optimization. With Route Planner from Wise Systems, you can:

- Better utilize vehicle capacity while limiting miles during route execution.
- Free up time for your teams to focus on customers or other tasks.
- Execute the routing strategy that works for your business.
- Enable static, dynamic, and hybrid static + dynamic routing strategies.

How Route Planner works

### See how powerful route optimization software fits your operation

1. **Input stop and order data via file upload or via robust API integrations.**  
   Give Route Planner your operational constraints, fleet data, and past routes. Then feed or upload data on future stops, tasks, and customers.

2. **Let Route Planner handle route optimization.**  
   Route Planner does the heavy lifting here, planning routes in minutes based on the data you’ve provided.

3. **To simplify route planning for your team.**  
   Route planners and dispatchers can make quick adjustments to route plans in matrix or map views before dispatching.

### Routing and dispatching starts with a plan.

Input

#### Successful route planning relies on data.

Effective route planning requires large amounts of information from many different sources. See how you can put data to work with Route Planner.

Get the right data at the right time  
Send data via multiple sources, including file uploads and integrations with systems of record. Integrations with other data providers support continuous data input for more accurate predictions.

Enable better decision making  
Ensure the most efficient routes with varied data points that include customer time windows; geographic zones; vehicle capacity, weight limits, and types; predicted traffic; driver constraints; and other operational requirements.

Plan for more stops  
Ensure your teams can create and adjust plans for numerous complex, multi-stop routes via support for large data file uploads and continuous data input via API.

### Create

Quickly visualize routes and stops  
See how a modern interface enables faster route planning, empowering teams across your operation to increase productivity.

Ensure efficient routes  
Ensure customer and business constraints as well as predicted day-of, on-the-road conditions are taken into account during route planning for full route optimization.

Improve driver satisfaction  
Ensure routes are optimized for drivers based on their schedules, availability, and preferred geographic zones.

Visualize large volumes of stops  
Say goodbye to cluttered map views and quickly drill down into routes with stop clusters.

### Modify

#### Route planning driven by data, powered by people

Ensure your trusted teams can preview and adjust suggested route plans before dispatching. Route Planner lets your teams make edits on an interactive map, dragging and dropping stops to make changes; assess the impact of your edits before dispatching, and lock routes that don’t need further optimization.

#### Powered by the Dynamic Optimization Engine (DOE)

Learn how Wise Systems applications rely on the DOE to make decisions, automate tasks, and offer suggestions that help your organization optimize routes during planning and execution. Respond to delays and keep everyone up-to-date — ultimately improving experiences for employees and customers.

### Frequently asked questions

**What is Wise Systems Route Planner?**  
Route Planner is the daily route optimization product in the Wise Systems platform. It takes the day’s delivery and pickup tasks, assigns them to drivers, and builds fully optimized routes in a single click — minimizing time and distance while respecting time windows, vehicle capacity, and driver shifts. Where Strategic Planner sets the long-term network structure, Route Planner turns that structure into the executable routes your drivers run each day.

**What is the difference between static, dynamic, and static + dynamic routing?**  
Most traditional delivery fleets have used static routes, built manually or with legacy routing software, to determine a fixed sequence of stops for their drivers. This strategy is time-consuming and usually inefficient. Dynamic routing gives fleets the power to do more with their existing resources by considering many factors (new orders, traffic, weather, etc.) and developing fresh routes every day. However, making the move from static to dynamic routing requires a transition plan that often includes a Static + Dynamic hybrid strategy that integrates both fixed and dynamic stops, providing continuity to key customers.

**How does zone-based routing work?**  
Zone-based routing can help your drivers by assigning them to specific geographic regions. This can also be a key step in migrating your team to dynamic routing, optimizing routes without having drivers leave their designated geographic zone.