I am using VRP to plan out routes that will help sales reps cover each store in their territory
Context:
Orders:
Depots:
Routes:
Breaks:
Question:
Update: As you can see in the screenshot below, breaks are currently being taken at random locations on the route. Is there a way for me to have the route go back to home location when it is almost the end of 480 mins of work. Then start the next day from the home location?
I guess I can do this by using sequence under the order and breaks feature class, but the issue is this becomes very manual driven.
I think it would be a good enhancement to have an option to return to home location when solving VRP. @MelindaMorang @HeatherMoe
Since you are wanting the drivers to return home each day, I would suggest a different set up using multiple routes for each driver instead of breaks.
To designate the territories you have two options, you can use specialties or Route Zones. Either will allow you to keep the drivers to going only to the appropriate locations. (Of course since there is no overlap between orders being serviced by different drivers you could also separate them into different solves all together.
For each drive you would create multiple routes for the different days they would drive starting and ending at their home location for each route. These could be designated as Zemin_Monday and Zemin_Tuesday for example. They would have the MaxTotalTime constraint of 480 minutes. This will allow the orders to be separated into different day's worth of work an make loops back to the home location instead of a long string of orders leaving the driver at some random location.