Vehicle Routes Optimization
Optimize Your Routes Before You Dispatch a Truck
Trusted by Growing Companies at Every Stage of Network Design Maturity
Sophus is your route strategy, not your GPS dot
Sophus operates one level above the truck. It designs the route strategy your fleet runs on, not the dot moving across a map.
What This Isn’t
Live GPS truck tracking
Turn-by-turn dispatch software
Daily route re-shuffling
What This Is
Transportation Resource planning
Strategic route optimization
Multi-stop lane design
Dedicated fleet balancing
Hub optimization
Carrier selection
The challenge, whichever way you run your fleet
Whether you run your own fleet or lean on third-party carriers, route optimization is core to how your transportation runs.
If You Run Your Own Fleet
The cost and the mix both matter
- Determining the costs associated with the transport fleet, including standing costs, driver costs, fuel, and maintenance.
- Deciding on the right mix of assets within the fleet.
- Optimizing pick-up and drop-off routes to maximize asset utilization.
Every Empty mile is money lost
- Minimizing empty movements through the efficient assignment of outsourced full truck load movements to carriers.
- Considering the use of hubs and cross docks to consolidate shipments and lower costs through increased utilization.
The Sophus Solution
How Sophus builds your route strategy
Right-size the fleet
Design the multi-stop lanes
Optimize multi-stop pick-up and drop-off routes so every asset does more with every trip.
Balance the cost
Validate against the real world
Study how the routes would actually operate in real-life situations after completing a network design study.
One data model that runs it all
Sophus X – Optimization Engine
Runs the fleet and routing decisions
Sophus X determines the right fleet size and asset mix, optimizes multi-stop pick-up and drop-off routes, and weighs route cost against the fixed cost of new assets or outsourced capacity.
Fleet size and asset mix optimization
Multi-stop routes design
Carrier assignment and cross-dock evaluation
Dastro – Data Automation
Feeds the model with real fleet data
Dastro pulls standing costs, driver costs, fuel, maintenance, and carrier rates straight from your ERP and TMS. Sophus X ends up optimizing against your real numbers,
Automated extraction from ERP and TMS systems
Fleet and carrier cost data kept current
Scheduled refreshes on the cadence you set
What optimized routing actually delivers
10-15%
Transportation cost reduction
Higher
Improved service levels
More
Increased asset utilization
Sophus vs. daily route tracking apps
Both are called “route optimization.” They solve completely different problems.
GPS Fleet Tracking Apps
Sophus
Decides today’s dispatch
Decides the network strategy
Outputs turn-by-turn directions
Outputs optimal fleet mix and lane design
Plans for the next few hours
Plans for the next few quarters
Does not address carrier choice
Recommends carrier selection
Stop tracking trucks. Start designing networks.
Put the network to work
Route strategy connects directly to how you design, cost, and monitor the rest of your network.
Freight Consolidation
Combine shipments across lanes to cut cost even further once routes are optimized.
Supply Chain Network Design
Design the facilities and lanes your route strategy actually runs on.
Cost-to-Serve
See the true delivery cost behind every route, lane, and customer.
Supply Chain Network Digital Twin
See route and fleet changes reflected in a live model of your whole network.
GHG Emission Modeling
See the emissions impact of every route and fleet mix decision you make.
Supply Network Planning
Turn the route strategy into an operating plan across your network.
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