Smarter routing. Lower costs. Better service.

Pin Routes is a powerful, web-based route optimisation and planning platform that gives organisations full control of their distribution networks. Designed for teams managing complex collection, delivery, and service routes, it helps you reduce mileage, improve delivery times, and cut logistics costs while improving service performance across your entire network.

Pin Routes’ browser based, design ensures route planning and visibility are always accessible, whether working in the office or from a remote location. With no local installation required, organisations can deploy the platform quickly without reliance on IT installations or specialist hardware.

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Seamless integration and automation

Pin Routes integrates easily with existing systems through flexible data import and export using flat files or APIs. Operational data such as orders, locations, vehicles, and schedules can be imported automatically, while optimised routes and plans can be exported back into execution and reporting systems.

Powerful API automation enables end-to-end routing workflows, allowing organisations to trigger optimisations, update data, and retrieve results programmatically. This reduces manual effort, improves data accuracy, and supports scalable, high volume routing operations. It also enables organisations to build fully automated, scalable routing workflows that adapt as operational needs evolve.

Manual Modification

Once routes are optimised in Pin Routes, they can manually modify routes using the map, timeline, or schedule view. Users can select individual visits or a group of visits, reorder them, add or remove them, and adjust route sequences using intuitive drag‑and‑drop controls. As changes are made Pin Routes automatically checks the updated plan against the configured routing rules (for example work rules and time window requirements). If an adjustment causes a route to break one or more rules, Pin Routes will display the broken rules as violations, making it clear where the solution is no longer feasible and why.

Intuitive and easy manual modification allows users to fine‑tune stop order, and allocations with full visibility of the impact on arrival times, distances, and overall route performance, enabling quick adjustments based on operational knowledge or changing requirements.

Advanced and complex routing features

Pin Routes is designed to handle complex, real‑world routing requirements through a comprehensive set of advanced features and configurable constraints. Support for tractor and trailer functionality enables accurate modelling of articulated fleets, ensuring routes respect vehicle compatibility, capacity, and operational rules.

Soft time windows provide additional flexibility by allowing jobs to be completed slightly early or late, with configurable tolerances and penalties applied during optimisation. Vehicle‑level controls such as maximum distance, maximum empty mileage, job count limits, and service radius ensure routes remain practical, cost‑effective, and aligned with fleet policies.

Pin Routes also supports paired and grouped job logic, including consolidation, precedence, and “keep together” requirements, ensuring related collections and deliveries are planned and sequenced correctly on the same route while maintaining solution feasibility and operational realism. Some other advanced features include unserved penalties, and optimal late order scheduling enabling users solve complex logistics challenges.

Reporting, analytics, and sharing insights

Pin Routes provides flexible and powerful reporting, analytics, and sharing capabilities to support operational review, decision‑making, and clear communication of routing outcomes. Standard reports such as route summaries, route manifests, and all visits reports are available directly within the platform, enabling users to review planned routes, stops, schedules, and resource usage in a clear, structured format.

For deeper analysis and visualisation, Pin Routes integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Power BI. Users can access integrated dashboards that provide immediate visibility of operational performance, including fleet utilisation and job distribution, supporting both day‑to‑day operational oversight and longer‑term performance review. In addition, bespoke Power BI dashboards can be created to analyse additional metrics or support tailored business objectives. These custom reports can be uploaded to Pin Routes, viewed directly against live routing data, or exported for use outside the platform.

Optimised routing solutions can be shared easily with planners, operations teams, and stakeholders through exported reports or browser‑based access to the solution itself. Users can view routes on the map, review route and vehicle utilisation, and compare alternative scenarios, ensuring optimisation outcomes are transparent, easy to understand, and simple to communicate across the organisation. By combining reporting, analytics, and dashboards in one platform, Pin Routes enables organisations to transform routing data into meaningful insights that support informed decision‑making, continuous improvement, and strategic planning.