The Solution

Taking control of the routing process with Trimble Appian Daily Planner

Increased fleet efficiency

Decreased planning hours

Increased route adaptability

Increased fleet efficiency

Decreased planning hours

Increased route adaptability

“We take our orders through our warehouse management system (WMS), then everything goes into Appian Daily Planner. Once the routes are planned, they go back to the WMS and then into Trimble TWM.Suite TMS and onto our drivers’ tablets."

— Steven Torres, Senior Transportation Manager at Honor Foods

Planning efficient multi-stop routes that navigate Honor Foods’ complex web of urban and suburban roads within precise customer windows requires an advanced, adaptive solution. Honor Foods selected Trimble Appian Daily Planner—a key component of the Trimble Appian suite of software solutions—to address their challenges. Appian Daily Planner is specifically designed to empower dispatchers to create fully automatic schedules and dynamic routes based on Honor Foods' specific requirements.

Appian Daily Planner’s intelligent algorithms transformed Honor Foods' previous manual processes into an efficient, automated workflow.

This process factors in critical parameters such as time windows, vehicle capacity and special equipment needs. For a company like Honor Foods, with a mix of frozen and cooler trucks and various vehicle sizes, the ability to apply customized vehicle and navigation settings within Appian Daily Planner is crucial. This ensures that routes are tailored to their unique road network, accounting for factors like side-of-street adherence and specific route modifiers like traffic, avoids/favors and tolls.

The software’s user-friendly design and modern drag-and-drop functionality for route editing were particularly impactful in transforming the team’s daily work experience.

“When we started using Appian Daily Planner, our team members did not want to change. They were comfortable in what they were doing and they walked in very apprehensive. But within two weeks, they all loved it."

— James Maynard, IT Business Analyst at Honor Foods

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