BizStride Logistics is how you manage and measure it.
Purpose-built routing and logistics software that integrates directly with your route accounting — so every stop, every route, and every mile is planned, executed, and measured in one workflow.
Routing is one of the most significant costs in a beverage distribution operation — and one of the most controllable. The challenge is visibility. The gap between what was planned and what actually happened in the field is where most of that controllable cost lives.
For distributors managing routing without a dedicated measurement system: costs show up in fuel and overtime, but there’s nothing specific to act on. For distributors running routing in a tool that isn’t connected to the rest of the operation: no one ever has the full picture.
BizStride Logistics is built to close both gaps — giving your router insight into daily decisions, your operations team live visibility throughout the day, and your whole organization the plan vs. actual data to measure and improve over time.
See exactly which routes are generating excess mileage and by how much. If actual miles driven are consistently better than planned, it may reveal that the driver knows something the route planner doesn’t — valuable insight for optimizing future routes.
Know whether routes are running ahead of or behind the planned schedule. Time on-road and time at each stop both carry cost. When route time consistently exceeds the plan, it’s worth understanding why.
See whether drivers are following the route your router built. Understanding deviations over time helps your router build more accurate plans and make better decisions about where flexibility is warranted.
Routing costs are hard to explain without the right data. Route Analytics surfaces Actual vs. Estimated Miles %, Actual vs. Estimated Route Time %, and Sequence Compliance measured against every route, every day — so you know exactly where the overage is coming from and what to do about it.
Creating more efficient routes starts with understanding what actually happened in the field. Route Analytics is where that understanding begins.
Daily Routing is the solution for next day routing — happening after Order Submission Cutoff, supporting both static routing and dynamic passes based on the orders in the system and the resources available to complete routes. Your router has the functionality to review against custom service times, actual cases, and expected drive time to make decisions before routes are locked in.
The route your drivers run should be the most efficient one possible. Daily Routing gives your router the data and the tools to make that happen, every day.
BizStride Logistics integrates directly with your VIP Beverage route accounting system — so the routing plan and the route accounting stay connected from the start. The plan your router built flows into the operation through a direct integration, so planning and execution stay aligned.
Through the VIP Mobile integration, Sales, Delivery, and Merch teams get the Route Activity tab — real-time route and stop visibility in the trade, all from within the mobile app they already use. No longer is it phone tag when an account calls wondering where their load is.
Most routing operations have more than one person who cares about how routes are running. BizStride Logistics is built to give each of them what they need — without three different tools.
Builds daily routes against real-world constraints — time windows, driver hours, load capacity — and locks them in for the next day.
BizStride Logistics Daily Routing gives the router insight into every decision, so routes are built on data, not habit.
Uses Route Status to see every route’s progress in real time throughout the day.
Problems get caught before they become service failures. Visibility across all workgroups — Sales, Delivery, and Merch — in a single connected view is a strategic advantage most routing tools don’t provide.
Gets the Route Activity tab through the VIP Mobile integration — a single connected view of every route, before, during, and after every delivery.
Sales reps in the trade can see where deliveries stand without calling anyone. When the whole team works from the same picture, execution tightens and service problems get caught before they become missed stops.
Talk to our team. We’ll show you what the data looks like for an operation like yours.