Newspaper Routing for Home Delivery and Single Copy Distribution
The best news yet in route management
Frustrated with trying to keep up with routing tasks for your home delivery or single copy distribution operation? RouteSmart software might be the best thing to happen to the newspaper industry since the printing press! RouteSmart routing solutions automate home delivery and single-copy route planning activities reducing the daunting daily administrative burdens associated with maintaining routes.
Automated routing of your delivery force — no driving required.
Stop talking into tape recorders and sending district managers on the road to transcribe route sheets that become outdated the next day! RouteSmart software provides sequenced delivery lists for your carriers and distributors at the push of a button — complete with street-by-street, turn-by-turn directions — without tying up management resources (or relying on carriers to tell you what to do!).
Benefits newspaper organizations large and small
RouteSmart Technologies is a trusted, proven solution provider to newspaper distribution operations around the globe. The RouteSmart package is uniquely tailored to meet the demanding requirements of high-density and neighborhood-oriented home delivery operations. Unique features and benefits of the RouteSmart solution include:
- Automatically sequences and balances routes based on actual street network.
- Incorporates new subscribers and alternate products into the route lists on a daily basis.
- Balance routes based on 4 unique user-specified variables such as total route time, number of subscribers (draw) per route, total number of routes desired within an area/depot, or preferred geographic location for each carrier/distributor based on their familiarity with the area.
- Perform route splits on the fly to better manage down routes or late arriving third-party products at the depot.
- Conduct route costing and carrier subsidy analysis based on planned time and distance for the routes.
- Convert youth routes to motor/adult routes.
- Specify the desired start or end time for the route. Great for meeting new delivery commitments!
- Generate routes that are zone pure (ad zone, postal codes, etc.) for maximizing target marketing effectiveness and advertising revenue.
- Perform home delivery and single copy route planning in one integrated system. Full support for TMC operations also
- Integrates with existing circulation management systems. Supports both full file and transactional file uploads on a daily basis.
- Daily routing performed via an unattended batch routing process for up-to-date delivery lists.
- Secure intranet deployment with browser-based access to reports, sequencing and down route management.
- Rebuilds router/street files automatically via street file transfer back to circulation systems.
- Create multiple routing schemes to account for variability due to seasonal fluctuations of delivery.
- Visualize routes and demographic data on a map of your service area to make better planning decisions for advertising and marketing initiatives.
- Hosted and on-premise solutions available as well as RouteSourcingTM—our cost effective means of helping you with your routing project work.
Contact our industry expert directly:
Jason Fry
8850 Stanford Boulevard, Suite 3250
Columbia, MD 21045
800.977.7284
jfry@routesmart.com
Client Profiles
RouteSmart Maps a Winning Solution for Small Daily Newspaper
RouteSmart Delivers Smart Service Solution for The Virginian-Pilot
The New York Times
RouteSmart Secures Home Delivery Routing Automation for San Diego Union-Tribune
Columbus Dispatch Optimizes Delivery Zones to Increase Revenue and Efficiency
Demos
For further information, click here to view the RouteSmart WebAccess demo.