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Reduce Costs & Increase Productivity
- Reduce Fuel Costs: Optimise routes to minimise fuel consumption and save money.
- Increase Delivery Efficiency: Shorten delivery times and complete more stops per route.
- Lower Operational Expenses: Streamline operations to reduce maintenance and labour costs.
Improve Driver Performance & Safety
- Improve Driving Habits: Monitor and encourage safe driving behaviours.
- Boost Morale: Provide drivers with optimal routes to reduce stress and fatigue.
- Ensure Compliance: Maintain adherence to drivers' hours regulations and industry safety standards.
Improve Sales & Customer Service
- Enhance Delivery Accuracy: Ensure timely and accurate deliveries to customers.
- Increase Customer Satisfaction: Provide reliable service that keeps customers happy and loyal.
- Support Sales Efforts: Enable sales teams with dependable delivery schedules for better planning.
Fleet Solutions Built For You
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.
Fleet Mobile Applications
Use our mobile applications to improve delivery routes, provide ETAs and notifications to customers, and take new orders or payments and proof of delivery, while enabling real-time tracking 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 software.
Transportation Management
Manage your deliveries, whether you have your own fleet or use 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.
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.
Customer Case Studies
““Throughout the process, the level of collaboration and effort from the Descartes team to deliver the solution in the way we asked has been amazing.””
Curtis Akerman, Business Process Lead for Delivery
Real-Time Visibility Oversight Complete
Plan vs. Actual Performance Optimal
Fleet Utilisation Reporting Enabled
“Descartes Reservations™ and Route Planner™ solutions were integral to our strategy of offering a more extensive, but unified delivery service. The advanced optimisation capabilities and architecture of the Descartes solutions were critical, bringing new delivery service options to our customers in an economically feasible way. ”
Andrew Gay - Systems Manager
Fulfilment costs reduced £1.8m
Increased delivery productivity 35%
Delivery windows provided at POS
“Working with Descartes, we’ve saved 13% on annual fuel costs, which equates to approximately 354,000 fewer miles driven.”
Lee Holmes, Transport and Logistics Director
Annual Fuel bill reduced 13%
Productivity improved 56%
Annual savings £2 million
“Redefining the Customer Experience in the Tyre Replacement Market”
Jobs/van/day increased 194%
Mileage reduced 13%
Fleet size 400+
“Overnight our business was transformed. Our planning team and drivers love using Descartes.....Since introducing Descartes, Stop Start’s daily delivery volume has increased 50%. This rate of growth would not have been sustainable without digital planning tools. ”
Andrew Bayne, Managing Director
Daily planning time reduced 75%
Annual distribution costs saving £450k
Delivery capacity Increased 12%
“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
Delivery capacity increased 25%
OTIF deliveries increased 15%
Fleet size 500+
“Autoglass customers appreciate the real-time estimation of their technician arrival time.”
Customer ETAs Accurate
Efficiency & satisfaction Increased
Mobile Technicians 1,100
