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Route Planning and Optimisation
An introduction to the Descartes Scheduling and Routing optimisation tools that can create and execute plans, increasing efficiency, providing greater visibility and streamlining communications.
Descartes Routing, Scheduling, Compliance and Transportation Management software solutions for road transport operations will help you gain more out of your fleet, whilst still ensuring compliance with the complex rules and regulations that apply to fleets of any size.
Our route planning software and transportation management solutions will decrease costs, improve service, increase productivity and reduce the environmental impact of your fleet.
Existing customers have:
- Increased delivery capacity by 35%
- Achieved over £1m in savings from fuel, vehicle servicing and consumables
- Reduced transport costs by 10% per ton delivered
- Improved on-time deliveries by 30%
- Reduced non-compliance infringement levels by 50%
- Reduced delivery miles by 1.5 million per year
While also improving the service and satisfaction for their own customers.
Descartes Route Planning software provides logistics professionals with the tools to maximise fleet and mobile resource utilisation efficiently.
While our Transportation Management solution provides the tools necessary to carry out optimisation of your deliveries across a wide variety of delivery methods.
Our solutions
Route Planning & Scheduling
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.
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.
Mobile Applications
Use our mobile applications to improve delivery routes, provide ETAs, take new orders or payments and proof of delivery, plus enabling and ensuring the recording of daily driver vehicle safety checks.
Telematics
GPS Tracking, vehicle diagnostics and improving driver behaviour monitoring - discover how to start reducing your costs and improving safety of your fleet.
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.
Our Solutions Provide
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
Trusted by
Customer Successes
“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%
“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
“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
“We chose Descartes at Sears because of the need for our customers to have very accurate promises to when they get their deliveries and our need to drive efficiency in our network in how we meet those commitments to our customers.”
Bill Hutchinson - SVP Supply Chain
Greater Control Gained
Increased Productivity Gained
Improved Visibility Gained
