Route Planning That Adapts as Your Business Changes

ROUTING & ROUTE PLANNING WITH BIZSTRIDE

BizStride Route Planning gives distributors a smarter way to evaluate, adjust, and optimize delivery routes without disrupting day-to-day operations.

You can model changes, compare scenarios, and confidently roll out improvements when the data supports it. Whether you’re managing steady growth or navigating operational complexity, Route Planning helps you make informed decisions—before those decisions hit the road.

What is Route Planning in BizStride?

Route Planning allows you to build and test alternative routing scenarios—called route plans—and compare them against your current routing baseline. Each route plan represents how deliveries would be executed over the course of a week, broken down into territories that reflect individual routes.

The key advantage?
You can explore “what-if” scenarios without impacting live operations.

Once you land on a plan that works, you can seamlessly promote it into your Route Accounting System (RAS) and move forward with confidence.

Why Distributors Use Route Planning

Distributors turn to Route Planning when they need clarity, flexibility, and control over increasingly complex logistics. Common use cases include:

Adjusting routes as customers are gained or lost
Evaluating the impact of new or closed warehouses
Responding to rising fuel or labor costs
Improving delivery efficiency without sacrificing service levels
Preparing for seasonal shifts or long-term growth

Route Planning provides a structured way to test these changes—grounded in real data, not guesswork.

What You Can Do with BizStride Route Planning

Compare Route Scenarios with Confidence

Use built-in analytics to compare route plans against a baseline or against each other. Measure changes in sales, miles, stops, and service time to understand whether a proposed reroute actually improves performance.

This makes it easier to justify changes internally—and avoid unintended consequences.

Dynamically Reroute Customers

You define the rules. BizStride does the heavy lifting.

Set parameters such as:

Service days and delivery frequency
Routing configurations
Service policies tied to customer volume

Route Planning automatically builds routes that fit within those constraints, maximizing efficiency while respecting your operational realities.

Test Strategic Decisions Before You Commit

Thinking about changing delivery days? Opening a new facility? Consolidating routes?

Route Planning lets you model these scenarios safely. You can experiment, iterate, and refine without disrupting live routing—so when you do make a change, it’s intentional and informed.

Activate Approved Plans with Ease

Once a route plan is ready, you can promote it directly into your Route Accounting System. No rework. No manual translation. Just a smooth transition from planning to execution.

How Route Planning Is Organized

While powerful, Route Planning is designed to be intuitive and accessible.

Key Areas of the Interface

Side Menu
Select territories to work with and filter by service day, week, or customer segment—making it easier to focus on the routes that matter most.
Top Toolbar
Choose the active route plan, manage service policies, apply routing configurations, and create or modify plans as your strategy evolves.
Map View
Visualize your routing with customer stop pins and territory geofences, giving you immediate spatial insight into how routes are structured.

Understanding Service Time Data

Accurate service time estimates are critical to building realistic routes. BizStride Route Planning supports multiple ways to define service time, depending on how your operation is set up.

Service Time Sources

Customer Profiles

Use fixed service times and unload rates defined at the customer level. This approach is easy to maintain and works well for static routing environments.

Service Time Templates

Apply standardized service time profiles to customer groups. Templates offer flexibility when historical service data isn’t available and allow for dynamic route rebuilding as conditions change.

Route Analytics (Actual Service Times)

Base service times on recorded, real-world data pulled from Route Analytics. This option provides the highest accuracy and is recommended for distributors using dynamic routing.

Service time sources are configured during implementation. If your needs change, BizStride support can help adjust your setup.

Territories: The Building Blocks of Routes

A territory represents a single route over the course of a week. Each territory includes:

A geographic boundary (geofence)
Customer stops, color-coded by service day
A territory ID that aligns with your load and routing structure

You can resequence stops, move customers between territories, and refine routes as needed—maintaining flexibility without losing structure.

Route Plans: Turning Strategy into Action

A route plan is a collection of territories that represents all—or part—of your distribution network.

When Route Planning is first implemented, BizStride creates a baseline plan using historical routing data. From there, you can copy, adjust, and test new plans as your business evolves.

For multi-company distributors, route plans can be organized into projects—keeping operations clean, segmented, and easy to manage.

Plan Smarter. Route Better.

BizStride Route Planning helps distributors move beyond reactive routing and into proactive optimization. With the ability to test scenarios, compare outcomes, and activate changes seamlessly, you gain control over one of the most complex parts of your operation.

The result?
More efficient routes, better service consistency, and decisions backed by data—not assumptions.

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