Enhanced Vehicle Routing & Fleet Optimization for Ultra Competitive Companies

David Mercer
Towards Data Science
6 min readJul 17, 2020

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Businesses can slash supply chain costs associated with the ‘last mile’ . Picture by wiggijo from Pixabay.

The so called “last mile” can incur up to 30% of the entire supply chain cost, making this a prime target for innovative new technologies.

Vehicle routing problems are notoriously difficult to solve but in recent years, however, a slew of route optimization services have popped up promising to drive great efficiency and lower costs.

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