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Vancouver Start-up Routific Announces Launch of Fleet Management Cloud Software Deployments
Tuesday, August 5, 2014Company Profile | Follow Company
Vancouver, BC, August 5, 2014--(T-Net)--Vancouver, BC-based startup Routific announced today that it has launched deployments of its fleet management platform, and deployments are currently live now in Vancouver, San Francisco, New York City, Paris, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore.
The Routific product was soft-launched as a service in the cloud earlier this year in May.
Routific is a new Vancouver-based startup providing optimization of delivery routes around the world. The product automates and optimizes routing and scheduling operations, taking into account the number of destinations and drivers, as well as time windows and capacity loads.
Routific is the winner of Vancouver's 2012 Startup Weekend and the 2013 Novex Challenge for environmentally, socially and economically sustainable businesses.
Routific is currently being accelerated by Axiom Zen, a startup foundry that creates, scales, and invests in technology companies building the future.
Without Routific, operations managers are forced to plan and schedule their deliveries manually, often with pen and paper and a painfully complex spreadsheet. It's a time-consuming and cumbersome process, and many owners and managers are recognizing that their precious time could be better spent growing their business, according to the company.
With Routific, in a matter of seconds, Routific's routing engine returns a series of optimized routes for each driver, sparing business owners the headache of fleet management, and enabling timely deliveries, fewer trucks, less time spent on the road and a lower carbon footprint.
“Routific keeps our operation smooth and efficient,” said Adam LeVasseur, co-founder of Makespace, a full service storage company in New York City. “The API was a snap to integrate and helped us eliminate the complicated and lengthy process of manually planning routes.”
A wide variety of businesses now use Routific to optimize their routes and schedules, aiding in the timely pick-up and delivery of packages and parcels, freshly-cooked meals and juices, and laundry, among others. Routific also works with moving companies, security teams, lawn care professionals and home inspection crews.
Mathieson McCrae, general manager at Frogbox, a rental service for reusable plastic moving boxes, praised Routific for improving his business operations.
“Routific assures us that our fleet is working as efficiently as possible, and has quickly become an essential tool for our business,” McCrae said. “They've developed a smart algorithm that can help save time, energy and money. It's been so great to work with a team that's so passionate about developing a robust product.”
The team behind Routific is committed to lowering emissions, greening our planet and helping businesses run more efficiently, according to the company. Co-founder Marc Kuo wrote his thesis on the vehicle routing problem, and later went on to work as an algorithmic trader at UBS, a global investment bank, before starting up Routific.
“At the bank, I felt there was something inherently wrong when I was using algorithms to help large multi-national companies inflate their already bloated portfolios,” Kuo said. “I wanted my work to create value and bring about positive change in the world; Routific is all about cutting waste and helping the world turn a little more efficiently.”
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