What is Maven Route Planning?

CONTENTS

1. What the product does

2. Who uses it

3. Where it fits in the workflow

4. Key concepts & terminology

5. What the product does NOT do

What this product does

• Takes orders/stops plus constraints (time windows, capacities, rules)

• Automatically builds efficient routes

• Is used in two main ways:

  • Route Planning (Value Assessments / What‑ifs) – compare a customer’s current routing to “Maven‑optimized” routing

  • Inbound Planning (Daily Operations) – generate tomorrow’s route plan that will flow into Dispatch

Who uses it

• Sales / solutions teams

  • Run Route Planning value assessments and ROI studies for prospects

• Planners / dispatch leaders

  • Use Inbound Planning to create the daily/shift route plan

• Operations leaders / analytics

  • Review KPIs (routes, miles, hours) and use scenarios for decision‑making

Where it fits in the workflow

A. Route Planning (Value / What‑If Mode)

• Input: historical or extracted live data (orders, routes, constraints)

• Engine: Maven optimizes routes on that dataset

• Output: comparison of current vs Maven‑planned KPIs (routes, miles, hours, cost)

• Used for:

  • Sales ROI/value stories

  • Scenario and network what‑if analysis

B. Inbound Planning (Operational Mode)

• Input: live or near‑term inbound work (orders/stops) plus business rules

• Engine: Maven builds a proposed plan for tomorrow’s routes

• Planners/dispatch leaders:

  • Review and adjust the proposed plan

  • Approve routes and push them into Maven Dispatch

• Dispatch then sends routes to drivers via the Maven Driver App and manages same‑day changes

Key concepts & terminology 

• Optimization run – a single execution that converts eligible work into routes

• Baseline – the customer’s current or historical routing plan

• Maven‑optimized plan – routes produced by the optimization engine

• Constraints – time windows, capacities, geography, driver rules, customer rules, etc.

• Proposed plan – the draft set of routes from an Inbound optimization run

• Approved plan – the final plan planners/dispatch accept and send to Dispatch

• KPIs – (Key Performance Indicator), number of routes, miles driven, driver hours, cost or other metrics

• ROI - (Return on investment), measures how much value you gain compared to what you spend

What this product does NOT do