Time & windows
Multiple time windows on the same stop
A customer open 8-12 and 15-18 gets served in one of the two windows, declared exactly as they are.
OptivoRoute — Route Optimization
From your Excel routes to optimal plans, in minutes
OptivoRoute is the route optimization software for last-mile delivery: upload the file as-is, the AI cleans the data and computes the best routes within your real constraints.
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Manual planning doesn't scale. Optimization does.
Every morning, hours lost building routes in Excel without knowing if they're actually the most efficient. OptivoRoute computes optimal routes considering time windows, capacity, LEZ/ZTL and driving times, and adapts to the way you already work, without disrupting your processes.
OptivoRoute — Route Optimization
Optivo's AI engine calculates optimal routes considering all your business constraints. Upload your data, launch the optimization, and in minutes your routes are ready.
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No data preparation
Orders that come in through intake feed the engine directly. No retyping, no spreadsheet to normalize before you can run the optimization.
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Multi-constraint optimization
Time windows, vehicle capacities, multiple warehouses, priorities: the engine considers all constraints simultaneously.
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Customizable constraints
Constraints built specifically for your industry: fixed points, owner-operators, mandatory sequences, specific restrictions.
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eFTI documents
Automatic generation of transport documents, waybills and digital delivery notes compliant with European eFTI regulations.
- -20%
- Distance Traveled
- -15%
- Emissions
- +20%
- Efficiency
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Constraints
The constraints that break a route
Optimizing is not lining stops up on a map. A route breaks because of a detail the software never knew it had to respect. The van carrying three temperatures at once, goods picked up in the morning that have to go back out in the afternoon, a transfer that happens in a lay-by rather than at the depot. The constraints below are already built and ready to switch on, not custom development to quote for.
Variable capacity and reconfigurable compartments
Vans with separate compartments for ambient, chilled and frozen goods, whose geometry can change. The engine accounts for which goods fit which compartment and for how the usable volume shifts.
Paired pickups and deliveries
Goods collected at one point have to be delivered across several later stops on the same route. The two halves stay tied together: if the pickup fails, the deliveries that depend on it fail with it.
Return, sort and head back out
The route that comes back to the depot mid-day, sorts the load and leaves again for a different area. Two trips that are really one shift, same vehicle and same driver.
Transfers away from the depot
Moving goods from one vehicle to another at a meeting point that is not the warehouse. The engine treats it as a constrained stop for both vehicles, not as two unrelated routes.
Time windows, fixed sequences and anchored stops
Multiple windows on the same customer, visit orders imposed by contract, stops that have to stay first or last on the route.
Mixed fleets, owner-operators and urban restrictions
Own vehicles and external carriers with different costs and availability, plus restricted traffic zones, low emission zones and city size limits.
Search the constraint library
The engine manages more than ninety optimization parameters, each documented in a versioned technical sheet. Below are the main ones already available, searchable by keyword or filterable by family. These are examples, not the boundary: parameters combine with one another, and the combinations are beyond counting.
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Time & windows
Depot opening window
Vehicles do not leave before opening time and return before closing.
Time & windows
Vehicle shift
A vehicle starts its route no earlier than one time and wraps it up by another.
Time & windows
Delayed departure for perishable goods
An order forces its route not to leave before a set time, so fresh goods load last and leave late.
Time & windows
Guaranteed return by a set time
The route serving that stop must close by the given hour, for deliveries that have to make it back.
Time & windows
Maximum tolerated lateness
How much window overrun is acceptable, per stop or across a vehicle's whole day. Zero included.
Time & windows
Service time per stop
Every stop has its own loading or unloading time, and the calculation keeps it inside the window.
Time & windows
Dock slots at the DC
The booked dock slot becomes a hard window on that stop, and the route is built around the time you were given.
Time & windows
Dock capacity
Every visit to the DC has its own slot and the plan fits them together without overlaps. Vehicles arrive in sequence, not in a queue.
Time & windows
Parking time
For the vehicle and for the single stop, like the old town where you circle for ten minutes before you can unload.
Vehicles & capacity
Capacity across several dimensions
Weight, volume and packages together. The vehicle is full when the first of the three runs out.
Vehicles & capacity
Vehicle-order permissions
An order tagged LEZ or Frozen only travels on vehicles carrying the same permission.
Vehicles & capacity
Maximum vehicle size per stop
The customer down the alley only the small van can reach, regardless of capacity.
Vehicles & capacity
Fleet by vehicle class
Define the type once (van, rigid truck, articulated) and how many vehicles you have per type.
Vehicles & capacity
Daily caps on distance, hours and orders
Three separate ceilings on daily distance, time away from the depot and number of deliveries.
Vehicles & capacity
Electric vehicle range and charging
The battery is a capacity that drains with distance and renews at charging points. The range to respect is the vehicle's real one, not the brochure figure.
Vehicles & capacity
CO2 emissions per vehicle
Declared grams per kilometre per vehicle, and the route's total emissions for environmental reporting.
Goods & priorities
Paired pickup and delivery
The pickup is always served before its linked delivery, and the two stay tied in the same flow.
Goods & priorities
Separate compartments with movable walls
Ambient, chilled and frozen on the same van, with volumes that shift. Built for a real customer.
Goods & priorities
An order bigger than the vehicle splits itself
A 150-unit order with 40-unit vehicles becomes four coherent deliveries, no manual work.
Goods & priorities
Four-level priority
From low to critical. When vehicles cannot cover everything, a rule decides what goes out first, not chance.
Goods & priorities
Forced position within the route
The stop that must come first, or at least before others, with a sequence priority inside the route.
Zones & depots
Same vehicle for the same area
Orders sharing a label end up on the same vehicle, and the customer always sees the same face.
Zones & depots
Areas that never mix
Territorial labels that keep two different areas off the same route.
Zones & depots
Multi-depot, different start and end
Each vehicle has its own start and end depots, or you let the system choose.
Zones & depots
Fixed pairing between order and vehicle
A customer tied to a specific vehicle or a fixed route stays there, even while the whole plan is reoptimized around it.
Zones & depots
Fixed routes on a weekly calendar
Monday has its routes, Thursday has its own. Recurring routes live on a calendar and get reoptimized without losing their shape.
Zones & depots
Open routes
A vehicle can start at its first stop or finish at its last with no return leg, like owner-operators who keep the van.
Zones & depots
Transfer at a meeting point
Goods moving between two vehicles in a lay-by or a car park, treated as a constrained stop for both.
Zones & depots
Mid-day return and second departure
The route that comes back to the depot, sorts the load and leaves again. Two trips the system treats as one shift.
Drivers & breaks
Balanced routes across drivers
Stop counts can be balanced across all vehicles or within the same class. Fewer routes ending at noon next to routes running past the shift.
Vehicles & capacity
Soft preferences
The constraint that is better honoured but must not block the plan. The system tries and, when it cannot, it says so instead of stopping.
Vehicles & capacity
Maximum number of routes per vehicle
The same vehicle can go out more than once per shift. You decide how many times, and capacity resets at every return.
Drivers & breaks
Driving and rest times (Reg. 561/2006)
Breaks after driving hours, a daily cap, shifts that end on time. Plans are born inside the limits instead of discovering them at day's end.
Drivers & breaks
Mandatory breaks with duration and window
The lunch break that must start between 12 and 3pm, up to five breaks per vehicle.
Drivers & breaks
Maximum daily driving time
Pure driving, excluding breaks, waits and unloading. It is the constraint that keeps plans within driving-time rules.
Costs
Hourly cost and cost per kilometre
Each vehicle class has its own, and the optimization minimizes real money, not abstract kilometres.
Costs
Fixed deployment cost
The extra vehicle goes out only when the savings repay the cost of sending it out.
Costs
Cost per delivery
The owner-operator paid per delivery coexists with your own vehicles paid by the hour, in the same calculation.
Costs
Overtime at a higher rate
Past a certain number of orders or kilometres the extra rate kicks in, and the system uses it only when it pays off.
Costs
Emissions as the optimization goal
The cost per kilometre can be the vehicle's emission factor. The engine minimizes grams of CO2 the way it would minimize euros.
Costs
Costs decide who goes out
Not just accounting. The order in which vehicles are deployed follows the cost parameters you declare.
Data & computation
Several orders at the same address, one stop
Five deliveries in the same building count as one stop for route costs and limits, not five.
Data & computation
Double geocoding of addresses
Every address is normalized by two independent engines, Google Maps and HERE.
Data & computation
Address not found, controlled snapping
An unresolvable stop snaps to the first valid address within a radius you set.
Data & computation
Adjustable computation depth
More quality or more speed. You choose the search level, and routes can be kept compact on the map.
Can't find it under this name?
Cards carry one name each; real constraints answer to many. And if what you need is not listed, that does not mean it cannot be done. The library grows with our customers.
Describe it in a demoIf the constraint you need is not in the library, we build it with you, starting from how you actually work.
Simulate scenarios before you decide
Beyond the everyday routes: with OptivoRoute you simulate operational decisions before making them. Recalculate the impact of one more or fewer vehicles, evaluate a new client on a fixed route, estimate the marginal cost of an expansion.
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Real-time what-if
Add or remove a vehicle, shift a time window, change a constraint: see the effect on distance, time and cost instantly.
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Fixed-route decisions
Even fixed routes need re-optimizing. Check whether a new client fits the existing route or whether the network needs rethinking.
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Clear marginal cost
Estimate the incremental TCO of one more vehicle or area, with objective data instead of gut feeling.
OptivoRoute — Driver App & Proof of Delivery
A web app the driver opens in the browser on their own phone. Three taps to close a delivery, and the same sequence holds from the first stop to the last. It is built to work for people who use their phone mostly to make calls.
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Three taps to close a delivery
Pick the delivery, take the photo or collect the signature, confirm. There is nothing else to learn, and it is the same sequence at every stop.
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Nothing to install, no app store
Works on any smartphone from the browser. The driver signs up with an email and a password and gets going. No download, no updates to manage, no compatibility issues.
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Works for drivers who are not your employees
An owner-operator working with you for a single week signs up and starts the same day. Nothing to configure vehicle by vehicle, no training session to organize.
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Delivery list
Drivers see the complete list of stops with times, notes and transport documents.
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Digital Proof of Delivery
Digital signature, delivery photos and notes. Proof of delivery reaches the dispatcher in real time.
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Integrated navigation
Navigate to the next stop with one tap. Support for new stops added during the route.
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OptivoRoute — Control Tower
The big picture of your entire fleet and deliveries. For dispatchers and logistics managers who need to manage the day in real time.
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Centralized view
Map with vehicle positions, delivery status, delays and progress for every route.
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Alerts & notifications
Automatic alerts for delays, missed deliveries, route deviations and anomalies.
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Dynamic replanning
Add new stops during the day. The system recalculates routes automatically or suggests the best solution.
Concrete results
−2 trucks/day
Bonduelle, first OptivoRoute optimization tests
Industry benchmark: 10-20% fewer km, 10-15% fuel saved, and planning from half a day to a few minutes. On a 20-vehicle fleet that's tens of thousands of euros a year.
Frequently asked questions
How route optimization works
Do I need to format the Excel file in a specific way?
No. You upload your working file as-is: the AI recognizes addresses and businesses, retrieves historical data from previous deliveries, and flags only the information that's genuinely missing. It's the lowest adoption barrier on the market.
Does OptivoRoute handle LEZ/ZTL, time windows and vehicle capacity?
Yes. The engine optimizes considering time windows (including multiple), vehicle capacity and type, multiple warehouses, priorities, owner-operators and restrictions such as low-emission zones. All at once. Beyond these, the library covers less common and harder cases: reconfigurable multi-temperature compartments, pickups to be redelivered on the same route, transfers away from the depot.
How long does it take to plan a route?
A single calculation takes from a few seconds to about 3 minutes. The whole process—import, optimization, any recalculations to the best solution—takes 5 to 30 minutes, versus half a day or more with manual planning.
Does OptivoRoute account for tachograph driving times?
Yes. For fleets subject to the EU Mobility Package, the optimization can respect the driving and rest limits of Reg. 561/2006 when building routes, so planning is compliant by design.
Can I use optimization without fleet tracking?
Yes, OptivoRoute and OptivoTrack are independent. You can use route optimization only, tracking only, or both together. The driver app can already provide basic tracking with no devices.
Does it generate transport documents?
Yes. OptivoRoute automatically produces waybills, delivery notes and transport documents compliant with the European eFTI standard, ready to print or export.
Resources and deep dives
Go deeper on route optimization
Calculator: how much can you save on delivery routes?
Free tool: vehicles, stops, km and planning hours → an honest estimate of the annual savings, as a range.
How to optimize delivery routes
The practical guide: the constraints that matter, mistakes to avoid, and the jump from manual to automatic.
From Excel to automated route planning
Why the spreadsheet doesn't scale and how to move to a system that recalculates in minutes.
Delivery time windows: how to manage them
Handling multiple time constraints without breaking the routes.
The ROI of route optimization software
How to quantify the savings in kilometres, fuel and planning hours.
Planning routes with owner-operators
Optimizing a mixed fleet of owned vehicles and owner-operators with different constraints and costs.
Optimizing fixed routes in pharma distribution
Even fixed routes need re-optimizing: the intermediate distribution case.
Find out how many km and hours you can save on your delivery routes.
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