Aptean Routing & Scheduling
Unified, Intelligent Logistics for Modern Distribution
Aptean’s Next Generation Routing & Scheduling is a cloud-native, AI-powered platform that centralizes route planning, dispatch, execution and DSD and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) into one intelligent workspace. Built on Aptean AppCentral, it replaces fragmented systems to drive smarter decisions, faster collaboration and scalable logistics.
Built for industries like food and beverage, manufacturing, retail and wholesale distribution, the platform adapts to complex delivery models and supports both daily execution and long-term planning.
It centralizes transportation data, automates workflows and uses embedded AI to enable smarter, faster decisions.
The platform integrates with business software including enterprise resource planning (ERP) and warehouse management systems (WMS), to support coordination across supply chain operations. Its flexible design reduces IT overhead, accelerates deployment and enables scalable, future-ready logistics operations.
Real Benefits That Move Your Business Forward
» Smarter, unified logistics: Teams gain a single, connected workspace that eliminates fragmented processes and leads to faster coordination, fewer errors and more consistent execution across planning, dispatch and delivery.
» Faster, predictive decisions: Predictive AI empowers planners to act earlier and with more confidence. By anticipating demand and resource availability, they reduce missed time windows, avoid overtime and improve customer satisfaction.
» Collaborative execution: Cross-functional teams work together in one plan and in real time improving schedule accuracy, speeding up approvals and ensuring accountability across roles.
» Optimized use of resources: With visibility into resource availability and compliance, your team avoids having too few or too many resources—allowing routers to plan proactively instead of being reactive and hiring additional resources.
» Strategic growth enablement: Leaders can plan for expansion with clarity. Modeling future scenarios helps evaluate fleet changes, depot additions and customer growth without disrupting operations.
» Performance visibility: Decision-makers gain insight into what’s working and what’s not. With clear metrics on driver and route performance and asset utilization, they can identify issues early and drive continuous improvement.
» Future-proof architecture: Aptean’s AppCentral platform is built on a secure foundation that supports real-time access across all users and with role-based access. It allows you to unlock a growing suite of transportation and enterprise applications, with ongoing enhancements in AI, analytics and automation.
Key Capabilities That Power Every Step of Delivery
» AI routing assistant: Your AI agent learns from user behavior to suggest route changes, optimize assignments and improve over time. It interprets historical data and manual adjustments to continuously refine routing logic, helping your team make smarter decisions faster with less manual effort.
» Dynamic rolling schedule engine: Provides forward and backward visibility across each day’s routes, orders and depots for continuous planning. It connects route data across multiple days, allowing planners to account for delays, asset availability and driver hours when building future schedules.
» Integrated resource management: Centralized workspace for managing drivers, vehicles and assets with real-time updates. It enables dispatchers to respond quickly to driver callouts, shift changes or breakdowns, ensuring schedules remain compliant and operationally sound.
» Route execution control tower: Tracks plan vs. actual performance with exception filtering and driver playback. It provides live visibility into operational KPIs, route progress, highlights anomalies like missed stops or delays, orders not delivered in full and allows teams to investigate and adjust future plans based on actual delivery behavior.
» DSD and Electronic Proof of Delivery integration: Seamless connection to DSD and POD systems for delivery confirmation and final-mile visibility. It captures OTIF performance with signatures, timestamps and status updates, linking them directly to route data to reduce disputes and improve customer transparency.
» Strategic route optimization: Supports long-term planning through scenario modeling and AI-driven recommendations. It allows logistics teams to simulate the optimal depot network, fleet changes and sales order growth, helping them evaluate operational impact before making decisions.
» Persona-based workspaces: Tailored user-based interfaces for routing, dispatch, resource management, customer service and executive roles, enabled by a true multi-user, multi-tenant environment. Each user sees only the tools and data relevant to their role, improving focus, reducing training time and accelerating task completion.
» Embedded analytics and GenAI queries: Natural language queries deliver instant insights across metrics like cost per mile, cost per case, missed deliveries, driver time and asset utilization. Users can ask questions like “Which depots had routes below 80% utilization last week?” and receive visual answers instantly, supporting faster analysis and team-wide visibility.
Partner With Aptean for Smarter, Scalable Logistics
With Aptean’s Next Generation Routing & Scheduling, you gain a unified, AI-powered platform that streamlines planning, execution and delivery across your logistics operations. You can make faster, predictive decisions, collaborate across teams in real time and scale your delivery model with confidence. As your trusted partner, Aptean brings deep industry expertise and a proven track record—recognized as Featured Customers’ 2025 Market Leader in Route Planning for customer satisfaction, success and impact, and honored with the 2024 Top Software & Technology Solutions Award by Food Logistics and Supply & Demand ChainExecutive for driving innovation across the supply chain.
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About Aptean
Aptean is one of the world’s leading providers of purpose-built, industry-specific software that helps manufacturers and distributors effectively run and grow their businesses. With both cloud and on-premise deployment options, Aptean’s products, services and unmatched expertise help businesses of all sizes to be Ready for What’s Next, Now®. Aptean is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia and has offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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