Sales Route Mapping Software as a Part of the Route Management 

Sales route mapping software gives operators an additional tool to control the location of the points of delivery and their exact coordinates. If the location on the map is unfaithful, a dispatcher can easily make changes to the map. Route optimization with mapping software allows making the delivery to different customers in the quickest drive time during the working day without unnecessary travel miles, consequently, contributing to saving fuel and increasing route capacity. Planning the workday for drivers and salespeople is easy and exact.

In addition to the map of the optimized route and the sequence of needed stops, the sales route mapping system can give full information about how much gasoline is needed to overcome this route and how many hours are required to perform the work. If it is required more than 8 hours, an operator when he/she is planning the route sales representatives' day’s work has the possibility to easily adjust the route by redistribution of the deliveries to other less loaded drivers. With mapping software, it is possible to visualize the data in different ways and realize the optimization of routes with the help of the desktop's map and spatial analysis. Route mapping software solutions designed with enhanced features enable the creation of route maps in an easier way, allow users to add data to maps, analyze important data, and connect maps to the company’s data resources.

To achieve success, companies performing route sales invest in sales mapping software as it helps to improve the business tactic aimed to support the overall strategic objectives. Sales mapping software solution helps businesses to maximize their productivity and minimize waste. Companies specialized in route sales, delivery, equipment, and other field services rely on route management software tools for more efficient scheduling and planning, more effective allocation of resources, and clearer accountability. By optimizing the sales territories and routes with multiple stops, sales route mapping software allows sales representatives to meet more customers in less time than eventually results in increased revenues for your company.

Today, there are many software companies that offer map solution with different features and tools allowing create diverse types of maps: pin and heat maps, territory and radius maps, color-coded and bubble maps, route planning, and interactive maps. Which type(s) of the map is the best for your business is determined by the specifics of your business and its activities.

Well-designed sales route mapping software enables:

• Automatic creating optimized sales territories and route maps.
• Effectively communicating not only the created route maps by business information about objectives, customer activity, and sales results too. 
• Easily importing business and customer data from the database files. 
• Visualizing territories and routes on the maps via a variety of color-coding options for ZIP code, county, or state. 
• Adding to the created maps the custom images with the purpose to simplify the route sales representatives' jobs, improve business presentations, and engage the right audience.
• Balancing workloads between the sales representatives. 
• Interactive sharing created optimized route maps to mobile devices used by route sales representatives in the field.

The ability to minimize driving miles is the key to success for field sales representatives as allows them to visit and service more customers for less time. If your company specializes in field sales, and you are looking for a tool that can impact your company's sales performance, sales route mapping software is the right solution for you.

Sales route mapping software helps to change the business model:

• Collect and organize data. Collect consistent customer, vendor, and business data from the multiple channels and organize collected data in an easy to use and understand way. 
• Improve brand visibility. Make sure that your brand is looking the best. Ease of navigation allows browsing products with multiple images and descriptions and helps for the higher conversion of sales. 
• Visit more customers. Automatically create the most cost-effective routes (by shortest distance and time windows) and utilize the broad range of mapping activities. 
• Dispatch sales personnel working in the field. Easy to plan the day’s work, adjust the schedule as needed, easily include emergency tickets, and provide the turn-to-turn driving instruction. 
• Monitor route sales representatives. The mobile application enables the live feed of vehicle activity, checking the location on the route, tracking route sales representatives' work time, mileage on the job, and completed deals in the field. 
• Be in touch with route sales representatives. With the mobile application route sales representatives working in the field can access their schedules, instructions and needed information on the go, receive the last-minute changes in the route, and stay in touch with real-time messaging. 
• Increase route sales. Driving by the optimized routes allows sales representatives to meet more customers and close more deals in the field. With the mobile application, customer account details and history are accessible at any time from anywhere. Your sales team can even search for new sales opportunities in close areas by while on the go.
• Get the overview. Powered by Bing and Google Maps, the mapping suite allows seeing on the map all customers represented by green dots. Hovering on the green dot gives a view of the basic customer information, including the last invoice.
• Analyze the results of the company’s business activity. Any economic activity of the company needs to be analyzed. Sales route mapping software allows to playback any route from previous days to review, check and analyze the work progress. Analyzing reports of the current and historical data helps to reach sales goals by focusing work on important customers.