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Route Optimization
The next chapter in route optimization will factor in additional constraints that are applied to jobs and destinations on daily routes. This means that route optimization will now take into account:
- Departure Time
- Departure Location
- Drive time between each stop
- Service duration of each job and destination
- Appointment times (access hours) of each job
- End location
- Traffic (based on the average traffic for that day and area for the past two years)
Why is this so special?
Here are a couple of scenarios to better describe how route optimization will work smarter and harder for you from now on:
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The new route optimization will put stops in an optimal order. For example, if you have a combination of jobs and destinations like this:
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Also, the new route optimization will let you know when you won't make it to a job on the route in time. For example:
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What else is impacted by this change?
Route Optimization from the Schedule
When you click "Optimize Day" from any view of the schedule, you'll see a few more options, including:
- Departure Time
- Departure Location
These two pieces of information will be used to calculate the optimized route. Here's a screenshot of what this will look like:
Saved Routes
To make these improvements to route optimization, there has been a slight change to how the starting location for saved routes will be handled. When you Create a Route in Settings > Schedule > Routes, you will now be required to choose a starting Location and Departure Time for each route.
Learn More
To learn more about route optimization, please visit these additional help articles:
- Optimize Daily Routes and Saved Routes
- Glossary of Route Optimization Errors
- Add Service Durations to See Total Service Time on Routes
Improved
- Recurring Invoices: When you create a new recurring invoice, or edit an existing recurring invoice, at least one email address will now be required in order to submit the form if the "Preferred Communication" field is set to "Email".
Fixed
- Ready for Invoice > Jobs: The Accounting > Ready for Invoice > Jobs list has been updated to no longer show completed "Destination" jobs.
- Edit Payment Form: An issue has been fixed on the "Edit Payment Form" where invoices that were selected on page two or higher would become uncheck upon submitting the form. If invoices are selected on the form, and those invoices appear on page two or higher, when saving the payment form, the invoices will stay selected in the invoice list, and the invoices will retain their links to the payment that was edited.
- Complete Job Form: The job completion pop-up has been updated to no longer display two vertical scroll bars in certain web browsers.
Webinar
Webinar for PROs: Costs & Efficiencies
Join ServiceCore as Pete, the host of Get Flushed, partners with John Gadeken to discuss: inflation, pricing, and inefficiencies in waste companies.
Pete's webinar with ServiceCore last December, "Trends for 2021", was so accurate that we just had to set up another webinar with him to see what other valuable information he has to share. The last 10 minutes will be a live Q&A, so bring any questions!
The Details
- Who: Everyone in the portable toilet industry
- When: Wednesday, December 1st from 1:00PM-1:45PM MT (and via recording)
- Where: Online
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Coming Soon
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