Priority Destinations – Address And Order Prioritization Route Optimization Constraint

With Route4Me, you can easily plan and optimize the most optimal, efficient, sustainable, and profitable multi-address routes. For an extra layer of route customization, you can add priority to your addresses, orders, and stops. For example, you can prioritize certain customers, insert last-minute orders that need to be visited with priority, deliver perishable and fragile items earlier on the route, etc. In this guide, you can learn how to add priority to uploaded addresses, Address Book customers, and orders, and plan and optimize routes with prioritized stops using Route4Me’s Route Planning Website.

Enable Priority Constraints

Upload Addresses With Priority To Plan Prioritozed Routes

You can plan and optimize routes with priority stops using spreadsheets. In detail, add the “Priority” column to your spreadsheet and then define the preferred priority for addresses in the spreadsheet. The highest priority starts with “1” and the lowest priority is “65,535“. Accordingly, addresses with higher priority will be visited earlier on the route, and addresses with lower priority will be visited later on the route.

Equally important, you can define priority for individual addresses, and addresses without priority will be automatically sequenced based on your optimization settings. Additionally, learn more about Uploading Spreadsheets for Planning Routes and Route4Me’s Spreadsheet Formatting Requirements.

After unloading your route spreadsheet, Route4Me will automatically verify, validate, and match column names in the header of your spreadsheet to the respective entities and attributes in the system. Accordingly, make sure that the “Priority” column is matched correctly and displayed with the “Priority” title in the verification window.

After that, Route4Me’s quickest route software will automatically sequence uploaded addresses based on the priority of each address. Accordingly, addresses with higher priority will be visited earlier on the route based on their specified priority value. Equally important, addresses without priority will be automatically sequenced based on your route and optimization settings.

To check the priority of a destination, open the route in the Route Editor. Next, click the preferred destination, go to the “Order” section, and then check the “Priority” field. Additionally, learn more about Using Route4Me’s Route Editor. Equally important, the system can plan multiple routes depending on the specified optimization settings and open planned routes in the Routes Map.

Address Book Priority – Add Priority To Addresses And Plan Routes

Moreover, you can add priority to addresses and customer contacts in your Route4Me Address Book quickest route management software and then plan routes with prioritized addresses. You can add priority to addresses when creating new addresses and when editing existing addresses. To do so, go to the “Business Details” tab of the address and then specify the preferred priority for the address in the “Priority” field. The highest priority starts with “1” and the lowest priority is “65,535“. Accordingly, addresses with higher priority will be visited earlier on the route, and addresses with lower priority will be visited later on the route.

You can add priority to addresses in your Address Book List and Address Book Map Address Routing Software. After that, you can use your addresses with priority for planning and optimizing routes. To do so, simply select the preferred addresses and specify the preferred route and optimization settings in your route planning solution. Additionally, learn more about Route4Me’s Address Book List Routing and Address Book Map Route Planning.

After that, Route4Me’s quickest route planner software will automatically sequence the selected addresses based on their priority. Accordingly, addresses with higher priority will be placed earlier on the route based on their specified priority value. Equally important, addresses without priority will be automatically sequenced based on your route and optimization settings.

To check the priority of an address, open the preferred route in the Route Editor. Next, click the preferred destination, go to the “Order” section, and then check the “Priority” field. Equally important, the system can plan multiple routes depending on the specified optimization settings and open planned routes in the Routes Map.

Order Priority – Add Priority To Orders And Plan Prioritozed Routes

Furthermore, you can add priority to your orders and then plan and optimize routes with prioritized orders. You can add priority to orders when creating new orders and when editing existing orders. Additionally, learn more about creating and editing orders.  To do so, go to the “Details” tab of the order and then specify the preferred priority for the order in the “Priority” field. The highest priority starts with “1” and the lowest priority is “65,535“. Accordingly, orders with higher priority will be visited earlier on the route, and orders with lower priority will be visited later on the route.

After that, you can use your orders with priority for planning and optimizing routes. To do so, simply select the preferred orders and specify the preferred route and optimization settings. Additionally, learn more about planning routes with orders.

After that, Route4Me’s quickest route planning software will automatically sequence the selected orders based on their priority. Accordingly, orders with higher priority will be placed earlier on the route based on their specified priority value. Equally important, orders without priority will be automatically sequenced based on your route and optimization settings.

To check the priority of an order, open the route in the Route Editor. Next, click the preferred destination, go to the “Order” section, and then check the “Priority” field. Equally important, the system can plan multiple routes depending on the specified optimization settings and open planned routes in the Routes Map.

Edit Stop Priority – Change Stop Priority And Re-Optimize Routes

Additionally, you can add priority to destinations and change their priority on already planned routes. Then, re-optimize your routes for the most optimal sequence. To do so, open the preferred route in the Route Editor. Next, click the preferred destination and open the “Order” section. After that, click the Plus Icon to open all hidden fields and specify the preferred visit priority in the “Priority” field. Accordingly, the highest priority starts with “1” and the lowest priority in the Route Editor is “255“.

After adding or changing the priority of the preferred destinations, you can re-optimize the route. To do so, go to “Route” in the top menu bar and select “Re-Optimize Route” from the menu. After that, Route4Me’s quickest route optimizer will automatically sequence all destinations on the route based on their priority. Equally important, route addresses without specified priority will be automatically sequenced based on the route and optimization settings.