Driven by your success.
When it comes to delivery routing and scheduling software solutions, ours go further and deliver more. That’s especially important right now, as road transport operations face the challenges of increased demands for delivery, rising fuel prices and driver shortages.
Having proven our ability to deliver and help sustain business success for our customers, we’re confident we can help all kinds of businesses to get more from their existing delivery fleet AND improve customer service along the way.
When the customer experience impacts your bottom line and operational efficiencies are key to maximising your margins, you can trust Descartes to deliver.
Find out how we can support you and your drivers to work better and smarter while delivering an exceptional customer experience, all while saving time and money.
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Create industry advantages
Retail non-food
Overcome the challenges of delivering goods from the store to the consumer.
Home delivery
Meet the expectations and growing consumer demand for home deliveries.
Supermarkets & Wholesalers
Meet the various delivery requirements of demanding customers that require home delivery.
Success stories
“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
“We’re delighted with the solution and the service we have received from Descartes. Ultimately, Descartes is helping us minimise our operational costs through its route planning and optimisation solution and is actively contributing to our corporate and social responsibility and sustainability efforts.”
Simon Macdonald, National Transport Manager
Avg distance driven/delivery reduced 2%
Manual processes Replaced
Nationwide stores 300+
“After extensive research, we partnered with Descartes to help transform our distribution management practices because it proved to be a real benchmark in the market. Their tools are very effective. The routing solution has been a resounding success resulting in lower costs and greater customer satisfaction, while the appointment booking capability is in great demand from our customers and their consumers. ”
Nicolas Tellier - Chairman
Operational costs reduced 5%
Customer Net Promoter Score (NPS) Increased
Fleet size 250+
How Descartes drives success
Delivery Reservations
Automated delivery scheduling, the ability to allow customers to choose their own delivery slots, determined by resources available will improve customer satisfaction.
Delivery Route Scheduling
The concept of delivery route scheduling is to determine which delivery vehicle an order should be transported on and the best order in which a delivery vehicle should make its deliveries.
Route Optimisation
Use clever mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence to dynamically optimise delivery routes from the latest road network data in real time.
Delivery Route Planning
The creation of optimised delivery routes, allocating resources and refining delivery routes in order to maximise a company's operating efficiency.
Multiple Drop Route Planner
Plan and optimises multiple drop delivery routes, including address verification and the ability to track a vehicle's progress in real-time against the planned route.
Last Mile Delivery
Improving customer satisfaction with your deliveries, from delivery slot selection to customer tracking apps and digital proof of delivery with our last mile delivery services.
