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Insights, tutorials and release notes from the Tarot Routing team. Page 3 of 4.

Tarot Routing tracking stage showing a central Sydney delivery run with its stops and the Tracking panel
Tutorial

Tutorial - How to Run your First Optimisation in Tarot Routing

So, you've created an account, started a Free Trial. This tutorial will detail how to run your first optimisation in Tarot Routing

Tarot Driver App unloading screen for Job 21, with one of its two units ticked off without a barcode scan
Tutorial

Tutorial - How to track deliveries and Units with no barcode scanning

How to track deliveries and Units with no barcode scanning

Territories drawn over Melbourne in Tarot Routing, shown as coloured areas on the planning map
Tutorial

Tutorial - How to set up Territories and Territory Groups

How to set up Territories and Territory Groups to optimise driving routes in Tarot Routing

Scenario Template form in Tarot Routing with drivers, territory groups and a default date of today, tomorrow or the next business day
Tutorial

Tutorial - How to use Scenario Templates in Tarot Routing

How to use Scenario Templates to make your deliveries even more efficient in Tarot Routing.

Tarot Routing's question to ChatGPT about route optimisation and transport sustainability goals, and the start of ChatGPT's answer about reducing fuel use
Insight

How can route optimisation help you reach your sustainability goals? - We asked ChatGTP

Can a robot (ChatGTP) write a route optimisation blog?

Territories drawn over Melbourne in Tarot Routing, shown as coloured areas on the planning map
Insight

5 Reasons Why You Should Use Territories for Route Planning

(Even though you will get less efficient routes)

Diagram: optimised routes lead to fewer kilometres, which lowers both emissions and costs such as fuel, wear and driver hours
Insight

This One Weird Trick Improves Your ESG AND Saves You Money

ESG: The Other Bottom LineAs we get further and further into the 2020s, all stakeholders within companies are caring more and more about ESG: Environmental and Social Governance, as well as several related concepts: • Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR) • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) • Environmental and Social Governance (ESG)And we’re seeing it from all stakeholders: • Investors • Business Owners • Employees • Customers The fact is, that if your company doesn’t focus on ESG, it

Timeline of orders arriving until a 10:00 cut-off, with drivers departing at 10:30, leaving 30 minutes to plan, pick and load
Insight

Why Late Cutoff Times Eat Into your Margin

The Last OrderWe have a handful of Tarot Routing users in specific industries where the Last Order Cutoff is less than 30 minutes before the drivers depart.Specifically, this means: • Orders (to deliver something) can be placed until 10am, for example • then the drivers leave the warehouse to start delivering at 10:30am.This is great for their customers.Some of our users even flaunt it as part of their competitive advantage.And in some industries, like automotive parts delivery, the end customer

Time Windows title card with the Tarot Analytics logo
Insight

Route Optimisation Constraints – Time Windows

Or how can I plan optimal driving routes that consider my customers delivery time preferences and requirements.

Tarot Routing's redesigned planning map showing Australia with the Drivers, Jobs and Scenarios panels
Insight

Three new things you can do with Tarot Routing map redesign

What's new in the map redesign in Tarot Routing

Tarot Routing tracking view of several delivery runs across Sydney, with the run list on the left
Insight

Do I do enough deliveries to use route optimisation?

How many deliveries per day does your business need to do to justify investing in route optimisation?

Diagram of the two parts of route optimisation: allocation, which vehicle performs which delivery, and sequence, the order of each vehicle's deliveries
Insight

But... we can ONLY optimise the Sequence!

When planning delivey routes companies should consider both Allocation and Sequence in their optimisation.