Acumatica Route Optimization Software

Acumatica Powers Growth. Locate2u Scales Your Deliveries.

Acumatica is the cloud ERP designed for growing mid-market businesses. It handles financials, distribution, manufacturing, and CRM. But as order volumes increase and delivery operations expand, Acumatica users discover a critical gap: there is no route planning or optimization capability within the platform.

At 10 deliveries per day, manual planning is tedious but manageable. At 20+ deliveries, it becomes a bottleneck that consumes hours and produces suboptimal routes. At 50+, it is simply impossible for a human to determine the best stop sequence across multiple drivers. Locate2u connects to Acumatica via its open REST API, imports delivery orders, and produces optimized routes that allow your delivery operations to scale as fast as your sales.

The Problem

The Delivery Scaling Wall for Acumatica Users

Manual Planning Hits a Ceiling at 20 Stops

When your Acumatica-powered business grows from 10 to 20 to 30 daily deliveries, the dispatcher who used to plan routes in 20 minutes now needs over an hour. At 40+ stops, manual planning becomes a full-time task that still produces routes with 25-30% more driving than necessary. Growth stalls because you cannot plan routes fast enough to keep up.

Adding Vehicles Masks the Real Problem

Many growing businesses respond to delivery volume increases by adding vehicles and drivers. But without route optimization, each new vehicle runs suboptimal routes. You might need 4 vehicles with manual planning to handle the same volume that 3 vehicles with optimized routes could cover. That fourth vehicle costs tens of thousands per year to operate unnecessarily.

Customer Time Promises Increasingly Broken

As delivery volumes grow, the complexity of honoring customer time windows increases exponentially. A dispatcher can juggle time slots for 15 stops mentally. At 40 stops across 3 drivers, it becomes impossible to ensure every customer is reached in their preferred window without algorithmic support.

No Data to Guide Fleet Decisions

When should you add your next vehicle? Which territory needs more capacity? Are some routes profitable and others not? Without route optimization data flowing back to Acumatica, these critical growth decisions are based on gut feeling rather than operational metrics.

How It Works

From Acumatica Order to Optimized Route in Three Steps

1. Import Orders from Acumatica

Locate2u connects to Acumatica's REST API to pull sales orders and shipment records. Delivery addresses, item weights, quantities, and customer notes flow into the optimization engine automatically as orders are created.

2. Optimize Routes for Your Growing Fleet

The AI engine assigns orders to vehicles and sequences stops for minimum drive time. Whether you have 2 vehicles or 20, the optimizer handles your current scale and scales seamlessly as you add capacity.

3. Deliver and Sync Back to Acumatica

Drivers follow optimized routes on the mobile app. Delivery confirmations and proof of delivery sync back to Acumatica shipment records automatically, keeping your ERP current as deliveries complete.

Feature Highlights

Route Optimization That Grows with Your Acumatica Business

AI-Powered Optimization

Handles 20, 50, or 200 stops with equal ease. The algorithm that optimizes your 3-vehicle fleet today will seamlessly handle your 15-vehicle fleet tomorrow without configuration changes.

Time Window Constraints

As your customer base grows, time window management becomes increasingly complex. The optimizer handles hundreds of overlapping time windows simultaneously, ensuring on-time delivery at scale.

Capacity Constraints

Uses item weight and volume from Acumatica to prevent vehicle overloading. As order sizes vary, the optimizer dynamically balances loads across your fleet for maximum utilization.

Real-Time Re-Routing

New Acumatica orders arriving after routes are dispatched are automatically inserted into active routes. Cancellations trigger re-sequencing. Your drivers always have the most current, most efficient route.

Multi-Vehicle Planning

Optimize across your entire fleet in one run. As you add vehicles to support growth, the optimizer automatically redistributes stops for maximum efficiency across the expanded fleet.

Drag-and-Drop Adjustments

Review optimized routes and make manual adjustments when needed. Reassign stops between drivers or reorder sequences with instant metric recalculation. Simple enough for growing teams without dedicated dispatchers.

Route Optimization Impact for Growing Businesses

27%

Reduction in fuel costs from optimized routing

55m

Daily planning time saved per dispatcher

Additional deliveries per driver per day

97%

On-time delivery rate with time window optimization

FAQ

Route Optimization for Acumatica -- Common Questions

No. Acumatica is a cloud ERP for growing businesses that handles financials, distribution, CRM, and project management. It can manage sales orders and inventory but has no delivery route optimization, stop sequencing, or fleet management capability. As delivery volumes grow past 20 stops per day, Acumatica users need an external route optimization tool to scale efficiently.

The tipping point is typically 15-20 deliveries per day. Below that, manual route planning with Google Maps is workable though still inefficient. Above 20 daily stops, manual planning consumes over an hour per day, routes become significantly suboptimal, and the cost of wasted mileage and driver time justifies algorithmic optimization. Many growing Acumatica users hit this ceiling and need to automate route planning to continue scaling.

Locate2u integrates with Acumatica via Acumatica's REST API and contract-based web services. Sales orders, shipment records, and customer delivery addresses are pulled into Locate2u automatically. The optimization engine sequences stops and assigns them to vehicles. After delivery completion, status updates and proof of delivery sync back to Acumatica shipment records.

Yes. Route optimization removes the manual planning bottleneck that limits growth. Without optimization, adding more deliveries requires proportionally more planning time and often more vehicles. With Locate2u, going from 20 to 50 daily deliveries requires no additional planning time and often no additional vehicles because existing routes are optimized to fit more stops per driver.

Growing businesses using Acumatica typically save 20-30% on fuel costs, reduce planning time from 60+ minutes to under 5 minutes daily, and fit 4-6 more deliveries per driver per day. At the growth stage where businesses adopt Acumatica, these savings often mean the difference between needing to hire another driver or scaling with the existing team.

Route Optimization Software for Acumatica