Smith Brothers Farms Optimizes Delivery Routes with RouteSmart for ArcGIS

Smith Brothers Farms partnered with RouteSmart to accurately model and optimize their delivery routes. They began by focusing on a single region, collecting and evaluating service time for each customer. The analysis of travel speeds and the flexibility of RouteSmart's street network attributes led to the creation of highly accurate routes. The company then modeled routes based on four-day work weeks instead of five-day, allowing for the elimination of one truck for every five routes. This approach enabled milkmen and women to rotate among trucks, fulfilling the requirement of reducing the number of vehicles without eliminating jobs. Using RouteSmart for ArcGIS, Smith Brothers created geographically compact areas for each day, generating and sequencing new routes. RouteSmart solvers quickly modeled various scenarios, and the best ones were selected and polished using RouteSmart’s route editing tools. The success in the initial region convinced Smith Brothers to expand the optimization to the rest of their service area.