Holiday rush in Madagascar: Streamline your delivery routes with Odoo

Your logistical challenges during peak season

The holiday rush spikes your order volume and raises customer expectations. Everyone wants fast delivery, which puts extra pressure on your teams. In Madagascar, traffic becomes even heavier this time of year, on top of frequent unexpected obstacles. You’re juggling multiple priorities at once: assigning vehicles, tracking drivers, anticipating issues, meeting deadlines, and maintaining service quality.

To keep up, you need a clear view of your entire fleet and a tightly organized delivery schedule. You can’t rely on guesswork or last-minute adjustments anymore—you need to see, decide, and act in real time.

Save time and cut costs with Odoo

With Odoo Fleet, you centralize all the essential information about your fleet in one place—vehicles, drivers, delivery points, route history, and maintenance operations. Instead of juggling Excel sheets, WhatsApp messages, and phone calls, you can plan everything directly in the interface using real data (such as distances, coverage zones, delivery priorities, and team availability) to avoid detours and costly back-and-forth trips.

In practice, you create your vehicles, drivers, and delivery points in Odoo, then assign routes directly from the interface. Each driver receives a clear schedule with the customers to visit, the delivery order, and the time slots. When a last-minute urgent order comes in or an unexpected issue occurs (delay, breakdown, priority change), you can adjust the route in just a few clicks—no need to redo everything manually—and the driver immediately sees the update in their schedule.

Every fuel refill, maintenance task, repair, or insurance claim is logged to the corresponding vehicle, giving you a complete lifecycle record for each unit. You can compare the cost per mile between vehicles, identify which ones consume too much or break down frequently, and decide whether to adjust routes, review driving habits, or replace a vehicle. Your reports clearly show where your budget is really going (fuel, maintenance, tires, incidents, etc.), helping you pinpoint exactly where to optimize and anticipate expenses instead of simply reacting to them.

Boost customer satisfaction with high-performance fleet tracking

Manage customer expectations professionally and elevate your service quality. With Odoo Fleet, you no longer need to give rough delivery estimates—reliable, real-time data helps you keep customers informed about their shipment’s progress. The module shows the exact location of every vehicle as it moves. You can see precisely where it is, what it’s doing, and whether it’s on schedule according to the planned route.

Alerts are configured based on thresholds you define—contract expiration dates, mileage limits for maintenance, maximum stop duration, and more. When a vehicle exceeds one of these limits (unusual delay at a delivery point, extended downtime, maintenance need), the system notifies you automatically, giving you time to react before a small issue turns into a customer complaint.

Going even further, Odoo records the full history of routes, travel times, and associated costs, allowing you to generate reports on deadline compliance, driver punctuality, average delivery times by zone, or route profitability. In practice, you can pinpoint problematic routes, adjust your time slots, rebalance delivery zones among drivers, and align your delivery promises with real-world conditions.