Route planning capabilities
Some work needs a particular vehicle, a qualified person or another job to happen first. Flowtlas models supplied skills, resource restrictions and relationships between tasks so those requirements can inform assignment and route order. Contact us to confirm generation availability and integrations for your workspace.
The operational problem
A tour combines a vehicle with any assigned workers. Supplied skills from those resources determine whether they meet a task’s requirements. Task and location restrictions can narrow the allowed vehicles and workers.
Keep qualifications, equipment records and resource availability current. A skill tag is an input to the planning model; the planning engine does not independently verify a licence, certificate or physical equipment.
Product capability
A collection and its delivery can be two ordered stops in one task. That task stays on one tour, with pickup before delivery. Longer chains can include explicitly supplied reload or disposal stops, with service durations and load changes at each stop.
Separate tasks can be required to use the same tour or different tours. For jobs on the same tour, ordering and minimum or maximum gap rules can constrain their scheduled stop times. Pair a timing relationship with a same-tour rule when both jobs must share a route. A timing relationship is not a general multi-vehicle synchronization system. Choose stop durations and gap semantics carefully, and validate a representative request before using a relationship for a critical handover.
Practical workflow
Supply locations, service durations, visit windows and resource requirements.
Specify vehicles, assigned people, start locations and dated working periods.
Include consistent capacity units, eligibility and stop order where needed.
When generation is enabled, inspect assignments and estimates, including any work left unassigned.
Operational benefits
In practice
A service team prepares equipment at one site and performs a follow-up check. The check needs a supplied specialist skill. A same-tour relationship keeps the two jobs together, and an ordering rule puts preparation first.
If the work needs a minimum waiting period or maximum interval, define the applicable timing relationship and verify the scheduled stop times. This fictional example illustrates required inputs; it does not claim a solved or certified process.
Questions
Yes. Tasks can require supplied skills, and tours combine the skills of their vehicle and assigned workers. Resource restrictions and availability also affect eligibility.
When both stops are one connected job, represent them as an ordered stop chain in one task. Use relations between separate tasks when the work needs explicit grouping, separation or timing rules.
No. Use an explicit same-tour rule when connected jobs must share a route. Timing relationships are applied to the relevant jobs on that tour; do not assume they provide cross-vehicle synchronization.
A task may have no eligible tour. Required work and permitted omissions affect the result status. Review the reported reason together with skill tags, vehicle restrictions, worker assignments and availability.
Work with operational context
