How To Map Multiple Locations For Efficient Last Mile Routing
Mapping multiple delivery locations manually is time-consuming and often leads to inefficiencies. To ensure your drivers visit each stop in the most optimal order, you need to account for variables like customer time windows, vehicle capacity, traffic, and other routing constraints. Without route planning software, managing these factors is nearly impossible at scale. Route4Me, the most used route planning software in the world in 2025, simplifies this process, helping you generate optimized routes and achieve efficient last mile routing. This guide shows you how.
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1. Import Delivery Addresses & Map Multiple Locations
The first step when routing multiple locations with the Route4Me Route Planner is to upload spreadsheets with addresses or drop pins on a map and use them as route stops. Furthermore, a multi stop route planner will enable you to import customers’ routing data from your devices, the cloud, your CRM system, or eCommerce platform.
2. Specify Route Parameters and Business Routing Rules
Next, set up optimization constraints and business rules such as delivery time windows, fleet vehicle capacity, traffic jams, weather conditions, revenue per route, etc. During this step, you will also want to specify the number of available drivers, the number of routes you want to plan, and other optimization parameters. By doing so, you’ll have more control over the route planning outcome so it will be tailored to your business needs.
3. Sequence Driving Directions After You Map Multiple Locations
After specifying your routing parameters, the route planner will map multiple locations and create optimized routes with optimal visitation sequences for your delivery drivers. Instead of trying to solve this complex problem manually, you can plan optimized routes with multiple stops and customer shipping or delivery addresses in minutes instead of hours. At this stage, all of your customer locations are ordered in the most time-efficient and cost-effective way so that your drivers can spend fewer hours behind the wheel. This reduces the need for overtime and minimizes fuel and payroll-related expenses.
4. Navigate Multi Stop Routes Using Mobile GPS Navigation
The last step in mapping multiple locations is navigating the planned multi stop routes. For a seamless and continuous process – from route planning to delivery – your drivers can use the in-app GPS navigation inside the route planner Android or iOS app. Alternatively, your delivery drivers can get driving directions from other iOS or Android GPS navigation apps for the routes planned on the route planner.
When choosing to use third-party navigation apps – such as Google Maps, Waze, Apple Maps, etc. – you might not get the most of your optimized routes since not all of these apps account for weather conditions, traffic jams, roadworks, and other unpredictable obstacles that your drivers might come across.
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