Direct Store Delivery operations demand more than a basic route planner — they need intelligent, constraint-aware routing, automated dispatch, and airtight proof of delivery. NextBillion.ai's DSD software gives beverage, CPG, and distribution fleets the tools to cut drive time, eliminate manual handoffs, and deliver verifiable completion records at every stop, every day.
End-to-end DSD capabilities from intelligent route planning and automated dispatch to live tracking and proof of delivery.
Automatically generate multi-stop, dispatch-ready DSD routes in seconds using 50+ hard and soft constraints — time windows, vehicle capacity, driver shift hours, and delivery priorities — reducing drive time and fuel costs across your fleet.
Push optimized routes directly from the planning engine to driver apps and fleet management systems the moment planning is complete, eliminating manual handoffs, re-entry errors, and dispatch delays across your DSD operation.
Monitor every DSD driver and vehicle in real time with sub-meter location accuracy, configurable alerts for route deviations and delays, and live ETA recalculations that keep dispatchers and customers informed throughout the delivery run.
Automate delivery confirmation with geofence-triggered arrival and departure events, time-stamped stop logging, and digital proof-of-service records that provide a defensible audit trail for every completed DSD stop.
Match drivers to DSD routes instantly using dynamic parameters — location familiarity, shift timing, order priority, and vehicle type — with real-time reassignment capability when drivers are unavailable or routes change mid-shift.
Inject operational knowledge directly into every route calculation — flag no-parking zones at retail stops, mark restricted delivery windows, and set vehicle-specific road rules so DSD routes reflect real-world conditions your drivers already know.
Upload your daily stop list via CSV or connect directly to your TMS or order management system. Set vehicle types, load capacities, driver shift hours, and delivery time windows. The platform handles fleets of any size, from five stops to five hundred, without additional configuration overhead.
See how distribution and delivery businesses cut costs and increased on-time performance with NextBillion.ai.
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"Support very good and friendly. Nextbillion provide the maps distance calculation with the low price but high value service to us. Nextbilions has help us reduce the cost and provide the same service as google!"
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
"We were unhappy with the pricing from big players in this space and needed a scalable alternative that offered customizability. NextBillion.ai's Maptiles API was exactly what we were looking for. For companies in the ferry and nautical map domain, we'd highly recommend NextBillion.ai."
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
"Support very good and friendly. Nextbillion provide the maps distance calculation with the low price but high value service to us. Nextbilions has help us reduce the cost and provide the same service as google!"
"By substantially reducing the number of developer hours spent on scheduling, NextBillion.ai's MVRP and large Distance Matrix API have helped us improve our operational efficiency and increase our cost savings significantly!"
"We were unhappy with the pricing from big players in this space and needed a scalable alternative that offered customizability. NextBillion.ai's Maptiles API was exactly what we were looking for. For companies in the ferry and nautical map domain, we'd highly recommend NextBillion.ai."
"Rich in features, light in the pocket. NextBillion.ai is solving the complex processes of the best route for the right vehicle."
"I admire NextBillion.ai's fast response and friendly manners whenever we need professional support in geospatial data processing. They have delivered a valuable service and support to our company that we appreciate."
Built by logistics technology veterans, NextBillion.ai delivers enterprise-grade DSD capabilities with predictable pricing and hands-on support.
Per-vehicle and per-order pricing means seasonal DSD demand spikes never translate into budget overruns or surprise API bills.
Handle the full complexity of DSD logistics — time windows, load capacity, truck restrictions, and driver shift rules — in a single optimization pass.
Around-the-clock access to NextBillion.ai's solutions engineering team ensures your DSD platform stays operational and optimized at every scale.
With 10.9+ million deliveries optimized and $11M+ in customer cost savings, NextBillion.ai has the operational track record DSD fleets can rely on.
The team that built enterprise location intelligence for the world's largest delivery platforms.
Co-Founder
Gaurav Bubna drives product innovation at NextBillion.ai, bringing deep expertise in building logistics and mobility technology at global scale. Before co-founding NextBillion.ai, Gaurav built successful products from scratch across ride-hailing, food delivery, and logistics at Grab, Ola, and Morgan Stanley — giving him firsthand experience with the routing, dispatch, and operational challenges that DSD and last-mile delivery businesses face daily. At NextBillion.ai, he leads the product vision that has resulted in 10.9+ million optimized deliveries, $11M+ in customer cost savings, and a platform trusted by enterprises including AB InBev, DoorDash, and Mars. Gaurav's conviction that location technology should be accessible, flexible, and genuinely useful — not generic and overpriced — shapes every product decision the company makes.
Co-Founder
Ajay Bulusu is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai and a veteran of enterprise-grade geospatial technology. Ajay's career includes leading work on location and mapping infrastructure at Grab, where he collaborated with Gaurav Bubna and Shaolin Zheng to build the geo systems powering one of Southeast Asia's largest on-demand platforms. That experience revealed how costly, rigid, and generic existing mapping and routing solutions were for businesses with real operational complexity — a problem that directly motivated the founding of NextBillion.ai in 2020. Today, Ajay helps guide a platform that has navigated 557+ million miles for customers across logistics, field service, NEMT, and distribution, including globally recognized enterprises operating complex DSD networks.
Co-Founder
Shaolin Zheng is a co-founder of NextBillion.ai with deep roots in geospatial engineering and location intelligence. Like his co-founders, Shaolin began this journey at Grab's Geo team in 2017, where the trio built and scaled mapping and routing infrastructure for millions of daily trips. That experience crystallized a clear opportunity: the logistics and distribution industry needed location technology that was truly enterprise-ready — accurate, flexible, and priced for operational reality rather than consumer-grade use cases. Since NextBillion.ai's 2020 launch, Shaolin has contributed to building a platform now backed by $34.25M in venture capital from Lightspeed, Microsoft's M12, and Alpha Wave Global, and trusted by 150+ businesses across distribution, delivery, and field services globally.
DSD (Direct Store Delivery) software is a specialized logistics platform that manages the end-to-end workflow of delivering products directly from a distributor or manufacturer to retail locations — bypassing a central warehouse. It typically includes multi-stop route optimization, driver dispatch, real-time fleet tracking, and digital proof of delivery, enabling distribution teams to run more efficient, verifiable, and cost-controlled delivery operations.
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