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Verdict

The case is there, but data comes first

Your route is complex enough to justify an optimiser. What is missing is not the software: it is orders in a format a machine can read without someone retyping them every morning.

What this means in your case

  • As long as orders start on paper or get rebuilt by hand, any optimiser adds a data-entry step instead of removing one.
  • The first move is not picking a vendor: it is checking whether the system you already have can export the day’s orders, even as a simple file.
  • Without a plan-versus-executed comparison you will not be able to show internally that the investment worked, whatever the vendor claims.

Where you would not gain

  • Be wary of anyone proposing you start anyway: an optimisation project resting on manual re-entry gets abandoned within months.

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