Can logixcentral deal with multi-depot vehicle scheduling?
Yes. It is possible to fix, partially fix, or allow logixcentral free reign on selecting which depot would be best to serve each order. Using the ‘depot zones’ setting you can force certain depots to serve certain orders within specific zones. This could be the case for all of your orders or just specific orders. If logixcentral is allowed the choice of service depot, its standard allocation routine will choose the depot closest to each order by road travel time. However, logixcentral is clever enough to appreciate that if a vehicle is leaving Depot 1 to complete orders right on the edge of its travel time boundary, it would be more efficient to allow that vehicle to complete orders in the same geographical area that are actually closer to Depot 2. Similarly, if Depot 2 has insufficient resources to handle all of its geographical orders, then logixcentral will make the most of any spare resources from Depot 1 in order to complete as many unallocated orders as it can that fall into Depo
