RouteCTRL™ for Dynamics 365 SCM
RouteCTRL for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a fully embedded extension module, designed to function seamlessly alongside other standard D365FO modules. By accessing your sales, purchase, and transfer orders, RouteCTRL empowers authorized users to plan and release dynamic, traffic-aware routes in real time. Integrated with RouteCTRL’s advanced cloud platform, the module offers a single, centralized point for all your route management needs, delivering seamless coordination and enhanced operational efficiency.
Key Features
Route Tracking
Unlock the power of real-time route visibility with RouteCTRL Live Tracking feature, a cutting-edge tool that integrates live route tracking directly into Dynamics 365. RouteCTRL is optimized for trucks and other vehicles, accounting for vehicle dimensions and road restrictions using advanced traffic-aware truck routing functionality.
- Dynamic Route Display with Vehicle Restrictions
Tailor your route views in real-time, tracking multiple drivers and routes on the same map. Easily view vehicle-specific road restrictions, such as weight limits and restricted road types, ensuring compliance and smooth routing throughout active routes.
- Live Notifications & Auto-Route Plotting
Receive live notifications as route statuses update and watch as drivers’ locations adjust on the map. If a driver deviates from the expected route, RouteCTRL automatically plots the best path to the next stop, displaying the change live in Dynamics 365.
- Interactive Map with Detailed Stop Insights
Make granular adjustments to the map display and click on individual stops for detailed, real-time information. Stay informed about the progress of each route leg and access key data to monitor every aspect of the delivery.
Dispatch Management
Seamlessly manage your dispatch operations with RouteCTRL’s dynamic dispatch planner, offering powerful tools to optimize lane assignments, reduce delays, and ensure timely deliveries to customers. Enhance your scheduling efficiency and stay in control of every dispatch.
- Interactive Dispatch Planner
Effortlessly create and assign dispatch slots and lanes. Drag and drop planned routes into their designated slots, and quickly adjust schedules as needed. The dispatch planner automatically notifies you when drivers check in, ensuring their availability is considered during route assignment.
- Route Affirmation and Release
Affirm routes directly within the dispatch planner and release them seamlessly for dispatch. This ensures only confirmed routes are processed, streamlining your workflow and eliminating guesswork.
- Consolidated Route and Driver Overview
Monitor available routes, as well as driver availability from check-ins, in one centralized view. Get real-time notifications when drivers check in. This ensures you can assign available drivers to the right routes, optimizing dispatch operations and preventing delays.
Route Planning
Streamline your logistics with RouteCTRL’s powerful route planning feature. Consolidate orders, estimate optimal routes, and maintain full control of your fleet’s movement through an intuitive map planner. Ensure vehicle capacity is optimized and routes are dynamically adjusted to meet your operational needs.
- Efficient Route Estimation
Calculate the most efficient routes by factoring in vehicle and road restrictions, while displaying an estimated cost breakdown and arrival time to ensure operational efficiency.
- Interactive Map Planner
Visualize and adjust routes directly from the map planner. Resequence and reorganize stops by simply dragging and dropping, or merge and split routes to optimize the path to match your needs.
- Comprehensive Stop and Route Details
Access detailed information about each stop and view a summary of the route, including estimated costs and time. Ensure you have full visibility and control over the entire route.
Shipment Cost Management and Billing
Our freight cost management and billing feature allows your business to estimate shipment costs with precision, and compare final costs based on actual data. Automatically manage driver payments as vendors and apportion shipment costs to customers by route, enhancing profitability and delivering greater value to your clients.
- Accurate Freight Estimation
Generate precise shipping cost estimates for all deliveries, offering transparent pricing for customers and improving your budgeting and forecasting processes.
- Detailed Cost Analysis
Break down transportation costs by vehicle, driver, and route. Identify opportunities for savings and optimize resource allocation to minimize overall expenses.
- Automated Payment and Cost Apportionment
Automatically generate purchase orders to drivers’ vendor accounts for timely payments, while applying shipment costs directly to customer source orders for accurate billing and efficient cost management.
Checklist Management
Ensure safety and efficiency with RouteCTRL’s fully customizable checklist management feature. Tailor pre-trip inspection checklists to keep your fleet road-ready, minimizing downtime, avoiding costly repairs, and enhancing operational reliability.
- Customizable Inspection Checklists
Create tailored checklists with specific sections and items suited to your fleet’s needs. Include multi-option fields and configure them to match your operational standards.
- Flexible Configuration
Configure checklists to be mandatory before starting a route or route leg, ensuring thorough pre-trip inspections. Checklist completion requires a physical sign-off by the driver, supports photo uploads, and tracks the location where the checklist was completed.
- Instant Response Retrieval
Instantly access and review completed checklists to track compliance, quickly address issues, and maintain a detailed record for safety audits and assessments.
Integrated Live Communication
Streamline your logistics communication with RouteCTRL’s integrated live chat functionality. Facilitate real-time conversations between drivers, dispatchers, and warehouses with ease.
- Driver/Warehouse Chat
Facilitate bidirectional communication between drivers and their dispatch or destination warehouse through the integrated driver app, allowing for quick, real-time updates and responses from both sides.
- Shipment Chat
Empower drivers, warehouses, and customers to engage in a three-way chat for each shipment, providing real-time updates and quick issue resolution.
- Seamless Text and Image Sharing
Support both text and image sharing, allowing all parties to communicate effectively, provide updates, and address any issues without delays.
Shipment Notifications & ePOD
Keep your customers informed at every stage of their shipment with RouteCTRL’s fully integrated notification and ePOD (Electronic Proof of Delivery) feature. Customize communication across WhatsApp, email, and SMS using dynamic templates, ensuring timely updates and consistent messaging.
- Customizable Notification Templates
Create and manage custom notification templates directly from Dynamics 365 for WhatsApp, email, or SMS. Choose from standard prebuilt templates or tailor them to reflect your brand’s style and professionalism, ensuring consistent customer communication at every stage of the route.
- Status-Triggered Notifications
Configure notifications to be sent automatically based on route statuses, such as pickup, delivery, or delays, keeping customers informed in real time.
- Seamless ePOD Integration
Automatically send electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) upon successful delivery completion, offering transparency and ensuring smooth communication throughout the shipping process.
Route Analysis (Actual vs Planned)
Gain deeper insights into your logistics operations with RouteCTRL’s Route Analysis feature. Visually compare estimated routes with the actual paths driven by truck drivers, helping you identify discrepancies and opportunities for improvement.
- Visual Route Comparison
asily compare pre-estimated routes with the actual routes taken, displayed side-by-side on a map. Spot deviations and analyze how they impact overall efficiency.
- Cost and Time Tracking
Analyze route performance by comparing estimated versus actual costs and time. Use this data to improve future route planning and enhance decision-making.
Third-Party Carrier Shipping Integration
Effortlessly manage and track your shipments with top carriers like FedEx, DHL, Royal Mail, and Australia Post—all managed within RouteCTRL for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management. Expand your shipping options and streamline logistics with real-time updates and carrier flexibility. Stay tuned!
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Frequently asked questions
Yes, RouteCTRL is fully capable of managing complex dispatch scenarios. Whether it’s coordinating pickups from one warehouse and delivering to a final destination or handling multi-stop routes with varying pickup and delivery points, RouteCTRL ensures smooth and efficient route planning and execution for even the most intricate logistics operations.
Yes, RouteCTRL allows full customization of shipment notifications. You can create and manage custom templates for WhatsApp, email, and SMS notifications directly within Dynamics 365. These templates can be tailored to reflect your brand and can be configured to trigger automatically based on specific route statuses, ensuring consistent and professional communication with your customers.
Yes, RouteCTRL fully automates route planning, calculation, generation, and dispatch.
It can automatically assign drivers and vehicles, as well as include new orders into existing planned routes based on specific criteria. Routes are released automatically depending on warehouse work completion percentages, ensuring seamless and efficient logistics management while adapting to your operational needs. This automation boosts productivity and ensures smooth, accurate dispatch operations.
Yes, RouteCTRL can automatically geocode addresses, simplifying the process of planning efficient routes. This feature ensures that all delivery and pickup locations are accurately mapped, reducing errors and improving route optimization.
Absolutely. RouteCTRL allows both manual and automated grouping of sales, purchase, and transfer orders based on specific criteria. It also integrates with the Dynamics Warehouse Management app, enabling you to group warehouse work orders by generated routes, making picking and warehouse movements more efficient.
Empower Your Drivers, Enhance Your Operations
Take control of your fleet’s performance using the RouteCTRL Driver App. From real-time tracking to hands-free navigation, see how this powerful tool connects with RouteCTRL’s end-to-end logistics solution.