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Take fleet productivity and customer service to another level with the industry’s most comprehensive and advanced solutions for planning and executing routes and managing driver performance.
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Delivery Route Planner Solutions
Maximise operational efficiency
- Minimise route planning time
- Maximise deliveries without increasing the fleet size
- Cut fuel and delivery costs
- Provide costed delivery options in seconds
Increase profitability
- Unlock opportunities for value added services
- Reduce wastage & costs
- Minimise dependence and costs of third party delivery agents
Improve customer service
- Customer delivery slot selection
- Automatic delivery updates
- More accurate ETA's
- Contactless proof of deliveries
- Photographic evidence
Compliant fleet operations
- Assistance gaining Earn Recognition status
- Tachograph analysis and reporting
- Driving licence verification
- Walk-around daily vehicle safety checks
Customer Successes
“Descartes’ integrated routing and mobile solution is helping us meet our customer service commitments while making our fleet, drivers, and dispatchers more productive.”
Henk Tol - Distribution Manager
Improved fleet productivity
Customer commitments met
Accurate orders delivered on time
“The Descartes Reservations™ and Descartes Route Planner™ solutions were integral to our strategy of offering more extensive, but unified , delivery services. The advanced optimisation capabilities and architecture of the Descartes solutions were critical to bringing new delivery service options to our customers in an economically feasible way. ”
Andrew Gay - Systems Manager
Delivery mileage reduced per annum 1.5m
Savings from fuel costs & vehicle servicing £1m
Increased delivery capacity 35%
“We were impressed by the investment and support that Descartes put into this product and the roadmap. This technology has allowed us to be agile, forward-thinking and work optimally with our fleet with benefits on costs, sales and satisfaction across the business and with our customers. ”
Edward Corbett - Head of Programme
Increased delivery volume 25%
Increased OTIF deliveries 15%
Customer Experience Improved
“Descartes ePOD solution has unlocked considerable benefits for both our business and our customers. We have seen the number of requests for PoD decline dramatically and have received increasingly positive feedback from our customers.”
Peter Russell, IT Director, Carpet & Flooring
Reduced Customer requests for POD -80%
Covid-19 Safe Contactless Deliveries Solved
Successful 1st Time Deliveries Increased
“Redefining the Customer Experience in the Tyre Replacement Market”
Improve Gross Profit 5%
Reduce Miles per Delivery -13%
Dynamically schedule appointments online at POS Solved
“With the Descartes solution, we now have real-time visibility into deliveries as they are made—and proof of delivery when customers receive their orders,”
Nicholas Chesna - Fleet Assistant Manager
On-time delivery has improved
Real time visibility of deliveries
Great delivery capacity
Descartes' software solutions for UK delivery routing and scheduling
Using our Route Planning Software existing customers have:
- Increased delivery capacity by 35%
- Achieved over £1m in savings on fuel
- Reduced miles/delivery by 13%
- Increased OTIF by 15%
- Reduced vehicle servicing costs
- Reduced consumable costs
- Reduced transport costs by 10%/ton delivered
- Improved on-time deliveries by 30%
- Reduced non-compliance infringements by 50%
Descartes Delivery Route Planning Software provides logistics professionals with the tools to maximise the efficiency of fleet and mobile resource utilisation.
Our Transportation Management Solution provides the tools necessary to optimise your inbound and outbound deliveries across a wide variety of methods.
Smart Solutions for Logistics
An overview of Descartes Scheduling, Routing, Mobile Apps, Telematics, Transportation Management and SmartCompliance solutions and how they integrate with each other.
Delivery Route Planner UK Solutions
Route Planning & Scheduling Software
Plan, dispatch, and control fleet resources. Build optimised routes and schedules with costed delivery options in seconds. Achieve more deliveries in fewer miles to reduce fuel, servicing, and maintenance costs using our route optimisation software.
Transportation Management
Manage your own fleet and external third parties from one easy to use interface. Maximise your vehicle utilisation, reduce the cost of using outsourced delivery agents and improve customer service.
Fleet Mobile Applications
Use our mobile applications to improve delivery routes, provide ETAs to customers, take new orders or payments and proof of delivery, plus enabling and ensuring the recording of daily driver vehicle safety checks.
Telematics Software
GPS Tracking, vehicle diagnostics and driver behaviour monitoring - discover how to start reducing your costs and improving driver safety with Descartes’ telematics fleet logistics software.
SmartCompliance™ Road Transport Compliance
Save yourself time, money and headaches in managing compliance with drivers’ hours and tachograph regulations. Ensure staff hold a valid driving licence and driver CPC. Minimise roadside prohibitions due to roadworthiness with mobile vehicle safety checks.