Establish the operating baseline
Use routes, stops, service windows, planned and actual performance, vehicle assignments, delivery patterns, and recurring exceptions to define how the operation behaves today.
Independent routing platform advisory
Choose the routing solution your operation actually needs.
Four Square Group helps leaders turn route history, operating constraints, and frontline experience into defensible requirements—before a vendor demonstration or RFP narrows the decision.
Before the product decision
Start with operating reality.
Not the feature list.
Routing platforms influence customer commitments, territory design, warehouse timing, fleet use, driver work, cost, and service. The right decision cannot be made from a generic scorecard alone.
FSG works on the buyer's side of the table. We use the data you already have to establish a baseline, identify the constraints that truly shape the operation, and separate must-have requirements from attractive demonstrations.
The FSG routing decision framework
Five decisions before the software decision.
A practical assessment connects historical performance, planning rules, implementation effort, and day-to-day ownership. It produces requirements your team can explain and vendors can answer.
Separate strategy from daily execution
Determine which questions involve network design, territories, fleet and capacity planning, and which require day-of-routing, dispatch, visibility, and driver workflows.
Define defensible requirements
Translate operating constraints, customer commitments, integration needs, security expectations, and user responsibilities into clear evaluation criteria.
Test fit and migration risk
Evaluate candidate platforms against representative operating scenarios, data quality, rule preservation, integration effort, and the cost of organizational change.
Plan ownership beyond launch
Design the governance, training, measurement, support, and continuous-improvement routines that determine whether the selected platform creates durable value.
Where FSG helps
Independent advice from people who understand the work.
We combine routing-domain expertise, operational consulting, systems fluency, and implementation experience. The result is a decision process grounded in what planners, dispatchers, drivers, customers, and leaders actually need.
FSG has deep experience supporting complex Roadnet environments while remaining focused on the broader operating decision. Continuing, modernizing, augmenting, or replacing an existing platform should all remain legitimate outcomes until the evidence says otherwise.
Common advisory engagements
- Routing-platform strategy and replacement readiness
- Roadnet continuation, modernization, and migration planning
- Strategic route planning and network scenario analysis
- Daily routing, dispatch, and execution requirements
- Route-history extraction, normalization, and baseline analysis
- Vendor evaluation, demonstration design, and RFP support
- Pilot design, validation criteria, and implementation planning
- Integration, reporting, training, and operating-model design
Technology in service of the decision
RouteLab can help turn your current route history into a clearer path forward.
When appropriate, FSG uses RouteLab technology by Wellwood Technologies to analyze routing data, establish baselines, expose gaps, and test strategic planning questions. FSG remains the consulting and implementation partner—responsible for connecting the technology to the operating decision.
Routing platform advisory FAQ
Questions worth answering before you shop.
Should we improve our current routing platform or replace it?
That decision should follow a structured assessment of current capability, operating gaps, data quality, integration needs, user adoption, supportability, and the cost and risk of change. Replacement is one possible outcome—not the starting assumption.
Can FSG help us evaluate routing software independently?
Yes. FSG can define requirements, structure vendor demonstrations, compare fit, design pilots, evaluate migration risk, and help leaders make a documented decision grounded in their own operation.
Do you only work with Roadnet customers?
No. Roadnet is an important area of experience, but FSG advises routing, logistics, systems, analytics, and operating-model decisions more broadly. Existing Roadnet knowledge is especially valuable when a customer needs to preserve years of routing rules and institutional knowledge during a transition.
Can our existing route history help select a new system?
Yes. Historical routes, stops, service commitments, actual performance, fleet assignments, recurring exceptions, and planning decisions can reveal the requirements a new platform must satisfy and provide realistic scenarios for vendor evaluation.
Where does RouteLab fit?
RouteLab, developed by Wellwood Technologies, can support data analysis, baseline development, scenario exploration, and strategic routing questions. FSG applies the consulting method, operating context, and implementation discipline needed to turn those capabilities into a useful business decision.
Before you issue the RFP
Bring us the routing decision.
We will start with the operation.
Whether you are improving Roadnet, evaluating a replacement, or designing the next planning layer, FSG can help define the smallest useful next step.
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