New Route Optimization Constraint: Plan Routes With Maximum Revenue per Route

Route4Me already permits you to plan an optimized route with numerous constraints:
- Customer Start Time and Customer End Time (with multiple time windows)
- Maximum number of vehicles/users/drivers
- Maximum duration of each route
- Maximum distance that each route can reach beyond the departure
- Maximum number of pieces per route
- Maximum weight in pounds or kilograms per route
- Maximum cubic volume per route
- Priority per stop, so that higher priority stops are moved towards the top of each route
Now, you are able to also have set a maximum revenue constraint so that each route does not exceed a maximum amount of “Revenue”.
- Some examples include:
  - If planning routes for territories, this can ensure each rep does not get assigned more sales revenue per route
  - Each vehicle may only be insured against theft or other damages for up to $100,000 per occurrence. In this case, you can build routes that ensure you won’t exceed certain business constraints.
  - If your users/drivers are collecting COD (Cash on Delivery), you may not want them to carry more than a certain amount of cash on their person. If you set a maximum of $10,000 in revenue per route, drivers will never be routed to customers where they can exceed total revenue amount (in aggregate) for the entire route.
Remember, all constraints can be combined, so when doing territory management, you can do comprehensive routing and territory management optimization such as:
- A rep can’t have more than 20 stops per route, and the total revenue of those stops can’t exceed $500,000 in annual sales, and the maximum distance from their departure location cannot exceed 50 miles