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BlueBox Dispatch
Night-before dispatch optimizer saving scheduling time every day.
A dispatch planning tool that turns calendar events into cleaner, safer, more fuel-efficient next-day routes.
AutomationDispatchRoutingOperationsMicrosoft Graph
Time Saved
1 hour
Estimated daily time saved for each dispatcher.
Problem
Next-day route planning required manual review of messy calendar text.
What Changed
Saves about 1 hour per day by reducing manual event review, address cleanup, and route sequencing.
Built
A dispatch planning workflow that helps the team organize routes faster with fewer manual adjustments.
Problem
- Next-day route planning required manual review of messy calendar text.
- Bad addresses, priority conflicts, and unclear details created operational risk.
- Any automation that writes back to a business calendar needed visible safety checks and rollback.
What I Built
- Outlook calendar parsing workflow
- Route optimization logic
- Safety checks before publish
- Run history and rollback data
- Demo mode for review without production credentials
Solution
- Designed a scheduler that parses calendar events into route-ready work.
- Validated constraints before publish and stored original snapshots for rollback.
- Created run, route, and health views so dispatch users can focus on tomorrow's work.
Business Impact
- Saves about 1 hour per day by reducing manual event review, address cleanup, and route sequencing.
- Creates more fuel-efficient routes by reducing unnecessary backtracking and drive time.
- Creates capacity for more deliveries per day because scheduling work is faster and routes are cleaner.
- Improves schedule quality before dispatch reviews the next-day route.
Lessons
- Automation that writes back to a business calendar needs a more conservative UX than automation that only reads data.
- The best agent-like workflow may be mostly deterministic when a bad action would disrupt operations.