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Here at Viamente we like to think we have developed a tool which is not only efficient, but also flexible enough to provide for the most varied usage scenarios. The following story proves how the Viamente Route Planner can be successfully adopted even by unconventional Users.
It is true that most of our Users are professional dispatchers and field service team leaders who need to route multiple vehicles on a daily basis. They need to make their fleets/teams efficient, maximizing the results of their mobile workforce while cutting costs and reducing the planning effort.
But the same need for efficiency can become critical, if only once a year, even for an unexpected User like an elementary school.
Liz Shayne, interim Head of School at The Schoolhouse Learning Centre, an independent Vermont elementary school, had a problem and was looking for a solution: “We stumbled upon the Viamente Route Planner when we were desperately looking for a simpler way to map the driving routes for a Mother’s Day Fundraiser our school does every fall — selling, assembling and delivering (door-to-door) over 500 individual “brunch bags” as gifts to loved ones, friends and colleagues”.
She needed to serve as many waypoints as possible with limited resources: a real logistics problem.
“Finding Viamente was a really lucky stumble”, she continued. “We were thrilled that we could cut many, many, many hours off of our mapping and planning (disposing of paper maps and freeing up at least 6 adults for other tasks)”. The Route Planner gave Liz not only optimal routes, but also the chance to reassign her resources to other important issues.
One of the things Liz and her team appreciated the most, was the intuitive drag & drop feature for modifying assignments manually: “It was extremely easy for us to use and flexible enough for us to make last minute changes. We were able to map efficient and reasonable routes for all 20 of our drivers and successfully made over 500 people smile.”Riccardo Bocci | May 18, 2012
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“When we received Kate’s letter, we were deeply touched and happy that our software had been able to help her build Routes and assignments for her non-profit project for low-income, first generation college-bound students.” says Antonio Perini, Viamente CEO.
Kate’s story is a story of successful optimization of Routes and resources, serving a particularly noble cause.
Kate Hiester, Career Pathway Program Manager at Eastside College Preparatory School (a non-profit Northern California school, run entirely on donations) needed a flexible tool for her career-orientation event. The event, aimed at familiarizing students with possible careers after they graduate, saw high school seniors shadowing for a day over 60 professionals in 27 businesses around the Bay Area. Most students did not drive, so they needed to be transported to destination in 6 school vans.
“The company sites ranged from the Presidio in SF to San Jose, and we had just enough seats to accommodate the students. I was not sure that I could get them all where they needed to be while still fitting into their hosts’ schedules” said Kate.
Then she found Viamente.
“I chose Viamente because it is intuitive” continued Kate. “It works the way I’d design it. It was easy to import all the information and have it plan the routes for me. I was able to compare multiple scenarios within the first few hours of use, helping me settle on the best approach”. Of course there were also special considerations which came up after she had started planning and modifications needed to be done. Kate said that without Viamente she would have probably lost the day adjusting all the Routes, whereas with the Drag & Drop function she was able to solve the problem and send out the corrected Routes to the Drivers within the hour.
“I do want to thank you for creating a really great product!” concluded Kate. “It has been invaluable in my planning. I can’t really imagine another way I could have planned for 44 students to get to 27 different companies in 6 vans within 90 minutes. :) Truly amazing.”Riccardo Bocci | March 19, 2012
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We are proud to announce that Viamente, the easiest Fleet Route Planner ever, is now ready to help Fleet Managers, Field Service Team Leaders and Drivers plan optimal Route Plans in Australia too!
The maps of Australia are finally available and Viamente’s network of satisfied Users (thousand Drivers and Managers worldwide use its online/mobile product every day) is bound to expand even more.
Thanks to Viamente’s flexible monthly subscription system and its full-featured Free Trial, Users can immediately verify the benefits of the only web-based Route Planner which allows even Smaller Fleets to take advantage of a superior Routing engine at an affordable price.
For the benefit of our Aussie Users, let’s see what are the advantages they will get when they create their Free Account.
The Viamente Route Planner intuitively displays Work Orders and Drivers on a map and suggests the Smartest Multi-stop Routes and which vehicle should serve which location. The optimal Scheduled Sequences of Stops are calculated by proprietary algorithms on the basis of the Constraints set by Users (Driving Times, Service Times, Time Windows, required Driver’s Skills and Load Capacity are the most important ones).
All this computation is done automatically and in seconds, making the Multi-vehicle Planning and Dispatching process easy and effortless.
So what are you waiting? Hop on board and create a Free Account!Riccardo Bocci | February 20, 2012
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Small and Medium Fleets are served. Viamente, the easiest Fleet Route Planner ever, brings to the Routing Optimization industry the same disruptive innovation that has revolutionized CRM: Self-Provisioning SaaS.
Historically, small and medium businesses rarely adopted Routing Optimization tools because of excessive complexity and inaccessible prices. Thanks to the technological revolution of Location Intelligence, Viamente fills the gap with an intuitive and self learning tool designed to help small Fleets grow.
Multiple addresses in complex road networks, limited and expensive resources, demanding customers and time constraints call for a Routing Optimization solution which must be not only smart and efficient, but quick and easy to set up.
With the full-featured Free Trial and the simplified Pay-As-You-Go model launched today, Viamente meets this previously unmet demand by removing the barrier of upfront investment. Mobile Enterprises can now experience the creation of better Mobile Workforce utilization and Logistics Efficiency from the very first moment they access the Viamente Route Planner.
Field Service Team Leaders and Transport Fleet Managers gain the opportunity to implement Smart Dispatching in minutes: with just a few clicks, Work Orders are assigned automatically to Drivers and Technicians, in compliance with all logistic constraints and customers’ expectations. The optimized Route Plans can be sent directly to GPS devices and Smartphones and result in better Service Level and lower Operating Expenditures.Riccardo Bocci | January 9, 2012
