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Route Agent
Route Agent is the Operations-family agent in FMCG Cloud that plans, sequences and re-optimises distributor delivery routes — turning today's orders, visits and delivery commitments into the route a driver actually runs, then reshaping it the moment the day changes.
What a Route Agent does
Route Agent is a working agent, not a routing dashboard. It takes the live picture of your route to market — confirmed orders, suggested orders not yet placed, visit schedules, delivery windows, vehicle capacities, driver shifts and real-world constraints like service time at each outlet — and produces optimised territories, daily sequences and turn-by-turn stop plans. Because it runs on the ConnectX data layer, the same outlet, SKU and order records that the rest of FMCG Cloud uses, it plans against what is genuinely deliverable rather than a stale spreadsheet exported the night before.
In the field, the agent does the job continuously rather than once. New orders arrive, an outlet cancels, a drop runs over, traffic backs up, a shelf void becomes an urgent restock — Route Agent re-optimises the remaining stops in flight, so the next stop a driver sees reflects what is actually on the truck and what still needs to happen today. It handles the patterns FMCG distribution lives on: pre-sell and van-sales models, direct store delivery (DSD), multi-trip vehicles, time-windowed and appointment deliveries, weight and volume limits, and territory boundaries that have to hold across a permanent rep and delivery calendar.
It also closes the loop. Delivery proof, signatures, condition photos and actual service times flow back into the one data model, so the next plan is built on what really happened on the road, not on assumptions. That feedback is what lets territories, visit frequency and route shapes tune themselves over time instead of being rebuilt by hand every season. Where a distributor wants a specialist last-mile or telematics provider, Route Agent coordinates with Delivery Agent and partner solutions in the Operations family rather than replacing the systems already on the trucks.
Why it matters on one data model
Routing in consumer goods has historically been a separate planning silo: an optimisation tool fed by yesterday's data, disconnected from the orders being taken, the visits being made and the proof coming back from the field. That gap is where cost and broken promises hide — trucks routed for orders that changed, stops planned for outlets that won't be open, fuel and hours spent reconciling plans that were obsolete before the first drop. Because Route Agent plans on the same data model that takes the order and verifies the shelf, the route is no longer a guess about the order; the route and the order are the same fact, kept in sync in real time.
That single-data-model design is also what makes the agent trustworthy to operate. Every Route Agent listed in the FMCG Cloud marketplace must earn FMCG Verified certification — an auditable decision trail for why a stop was sequenced where it was, performance against the Operations-family service levels, a passed security review, disclosed data scopes, and a documented data-residency and tenant-isolation posture under regimes like GDPR and CCPA. For a distribution or brand route-to-market team, that means an agent you can put in front of dispatchers and drivers with confidence: it does the planning job, it explains itself, and it stays accountable on the one data layer the rest of your operation already runs on.
The trust layer
What “FMCG Verified Route Agent” guarantees
Every Route Agent on the marketplace — first-party or partner — must clear the same six criteria before it earns the mark.
Protocol compliance
MCP & A2A interoperability — the agent consumes and emits on the one FMCG Cloud data model.
Observability
Emits the standard event schema — every action shows in the activity feed with an auditable decision trail.
Performance
Meets the per-family latency SLOs — execution-family responses in seconds, finance-family in batch windows.
Security review
Passes the platform security review — least-privilege data access, scopes disclosed at install.
Support SLO
The vendor commits to the published support response times for its tier.
Data-handling posture
Documented residency, retention and tenant isolation — no cross-tenant training without opt-in.
Route Agents on the marketplace
FMCG Cloud — Route Agent
The first-party Route Agent, FMCG Verified at launch and live on the one data model.
Partner Route Agents — onboarding
Specialist vendors are onboarding through the marketplace. Build one and list it — become a partner.
More in the Operations family
Part of the Route & Delivery category · see all 16 agent types.