Every constraint considered. One optimized plan, in minutes rather than hours, so you can take orders later and your warehouse can pick, pack and load with confirmed plans.
Fuel is up. Labour is up. Food and beverage margins are thinning, and the cold chain only gets more complex. Most planning tools still take hours and treat every constraint as an absolute.
ORKSTRA.ai plans in minutes, across all of them.
The load and the route are decided by separate tools that never see each other.
Docks and kitchens receive in tight windows. A missed slot is a refusal.
The invoice reflects what was shipped, not what was accepted at the door.
One proprietary AI engine takes the day from orders to release: truck assignment, stop order and pallet placement decided together, in a single pass over the same plan. You review it, adjust anything and lock it.
Builds the entire day's plan in one pass: which orders go on which truck, the pick order, the load and the route, every constraint considered together.
Sets the exact stop order and route for each vehicle, with arrival estimates based on forecast traffic.
Allocates every truck's compartments across frozen, chilled and ambient, and sequences the load so each drop comes off in the order it is delivered.
Captures line-by-line acceptance or refusal at the door, with photo and signature, and generates the invoice from what was actually accepted.
Food and beverage distribution runs on rules that generic routing software treats as edge cases. ORKSTRA.ai starts from them, planning against thirty-plus constraints and counting. These eight shape every distribution day.
Frozen, chilled and dry share one truck. Each zone has to hold its range door to door.
Some goods cannot share space. Proteins, allergens and produce carry separation rules that shape the load.
Docks and kitchens receive in tight windows. A missed slot is a refusal, not a late delivery.
Low docks, tight alleys and liftgate requirements decide which vehicle can serve which address.
Bulkheads and movable dividers split one truck into several climates. The layout is part of the plan.
Crushable cases and axle limits set hard rules for how high and how heavy a pallet builds.
Hours of service and handling certifications limit who can take which route on a given day.
Trucks fill by volume or by weight, whichever runs out first. Both count on every trip.
ORKSTRA.ai is for distributors supplying restaurants, hotels and schools: meat, seafood, dairy, bakery and broadline. Cold chain, tight windows and refusals at the door: the product was designed around them, not adapted to them.
Diverse orders picked case by case and delivered on daily city runs: restaurants, cafes, hotels, schools, caterers, hospitals and every other out-of-home kitchen.
The operation ORKSTRA.ai was built around, planned in one pass from your order file.
Minutes
Planning done in one pass
99%
Delivery time-window accuracy
14–20%
Lower overall logistics costs
Up to20%
Fewer vehicles needed
Later cut‑offs
Accept orders later, capture more revenue
Results validated against real order history —
This is the distribution day ORKSTRA.ai is built to plan: staging, load sequence, routes and delivery windows, so product with a shelf life arrives at the right place at the right time.
Purpose-built for food and beverage distribution: cold chain, compartments and delivery windows are starting constraints, not settings added later.
The pick, the truck, the load and the route are decided together in a single pass, not passed between separate tools.
When the day changes, the plan re-optimizes around what has already happened instead of breaking.
Acceptance, refusals and the invoice reconciled to what was actually delivered, with visibility right to the door.
Discover first-hand the value ORKSTRA.ai can unlock for your business. Two phases, absolutely no commitment, and nothing touches your operation until you decide it should. We sign your NDA before you send anything.
Send at least three months of historical orders plus your key constraints: fleet size, DC locations, delivery windows. We run them through ORKSTRA.ai and return three things: a data-quality report covering duplicates, wrong addresses and incorrect weights or volumes; the plan ORKSTRA.ai would have built next to the one you actually ran; and the value indicators between the two.
If the benchmark is compelling, ORKSTRA.ai runs alongside your live operation for up to three months. Same orders, same trucks, same constraints. Nothing touches your operation until you decide it should.
Every trial starts with a data clean-up: duplicates, wrong addresses and incorrect weights or volumes surfaced before they cost you deliveries. Orders flow in from spreadsheet uploads out of the box; light integration is optional, never required.
No. Routing works out an efficient way to deliver a set of orders with a set of vehicles, and most routing stops at the route. ORKSTRA.ai decides which orders go on which truck, sequences the pick, builds the load across frozen, chilled and ambient compartments, routes the day with forecast traffic, and follows every delivery to the door, where acceptance and refusals are captured and the invoice is generated from what was actually accepted. One plan, from the pick to the door.
No. ORKSTRA.ai is where the plan comes from: which orders go on which truck, the pick order, the load and the route, decided together in one pass. A TMS manages freight execution and a WMS runs the warehouse; both keep running, and ORKSTRA.ai connects to them through standard APIs where that helps, an option rather than a requirement. What it closes is the planning gap those systems leave: the gap where the day still leaks.
GPS tells you where your trucks currently are. ORKSTRA.ai decides what goes on those trucks, in what order, and how they should move, before they leave the yard. Tracking tools are genuinely useful for visibility and plenty of operators keep theirs. What they do not do is decide which orders go on which vehicle, sequence the pick, build the load, or know that raw protein cannot travel next to ready-to-eat.
It works out an efficient way to deliver a set of orders with a set of vehicles, balancing distance, time windows, vehicle capacity and real road conditions instead of relying on a planner's judgement and a whiteboard. Most route optimization stops at the route. Food and beverage distribution needs more: the same plan has to respect temperature compartments, product compatibility, stacking rules and site access, and it has to tell the warehouse what order to pick in.
A spreadsheet of your orders. That is genuinely all. Customer, address, delivery window, weight or volume, and temperature requirement is enough to produce a real plan. No ERP connection, no integration project, no IT involvement. Addresses are geocoded and confidence-scored on the way in, so questionable data surfaces before it becomes a failed delivery rather than after.
No. You can run entirely on file uploads. If you have one, we can connect to it through standard APIs, but it is an option rather than a requirement.
Natively. It is one of the reasons the product exists. We plan across frozen, chilled and ambient compartments in the same vehicle, handle both fixed and movable dividers, and apply product compatibility rules so incompatible goods do not share a space they should not. Compartment allocation happens inside the same optimization that picks the vehicle and builds the route, not as a manual step afterwards.
You see it before your customer does. A delay at one stop is projected forward onto the stops behind it, so you know which deliveries are at risk while there is still time to act, and you can skip or reroute a stop without rebuilding the plan.
Yes, and it costs nothing. We sign your NDA, then you send at least three months of historical orders. We run them through ORKSTRA.ai and show you the plan we would have built next to what you actually ran: same orders, same trucks, same constraints. If that is compelling, we run in parallel with your live operation for up to three months with no commitment. Nothing touches your operation until you decide it should.
Whichever your operation uses. Units are a per-customer setting, and mixed systems work natively: an operation can run miles with kilograms and every plan, load and document follows suit. Most tools force one system or the other; ORKSTRA.ai handles both at once.
ORKSTRA.ai closes the gap your ERP leaves, starting from the ERP or the spreadsheet you already run on. Don't just run the operation. Future-proof it. We should talk.
Tell us about your operation and we'll be in touch.