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Logistics Software for Food & Beverage Companies
Serving demanding consumers with time-sensitive needs is not a new business trend for food and beverage distributors. It’s a daily reality. If distributors don’t get the right products to consumers at the right time, in the requested location and good condition, their bottom line will suffer.
To be successful in this highly competitive market, organisations are starting to embrace the next-generation of logistics technology to lower operating costs, increase productivity, and meet higher customer expectations, while ensuring product integrity and security.
Descartes specialises in providing SaaS on-demand fleet management solutions to help food and beverage manufacturers and distributors improve performance and boost productivity. In a single integrated suite, Descartes offers the key capabilities needed to effectively plan and execute efficient delivery routes; communicate with drivers in real time; improve distribution centre productivity; and measure real-time and historic performance – all while taking customer service to the next level.
Distribution centre to store visibility
Leading retailers both large and small depend on Descartes technology to better manage their end-to-end processes involved in the transportation of goods from distribution centres to their stores.
Solutions for Food & Beverage companies;
Measurable Benefits
In addition to qualitative improvements in productivity, driver accountability and customer service, Descartes’ customers have experienced:
- Up to 30% improvement in on-time delivery
- Up to 33% increased vehicle utilisation
- Up to 50% more stops per route
- Up to 20% increase in DC space usage
- Up to 15% reduction in labour costs within the DC
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' Route Planner™ On-demand helps us have more efficient delivery operations by taking into account our assets, business rules, customer requirements and geographic information. Seamless mobile solution integration ensures we can track actual performance against optimized route plans and address new work or delivery exceptions as they happen to better serve our customers.”
Nimmoo Adam, IT Manager
Delivery temperatures recorded
Delivery costs analysed
Proof of delivery collected
“Descartes route optimisation software was designed to be deployed in an operational capacity to manage collection & distribution rounds. We have now adopted it to respond to calls for tenders and support our regional business units by undertaking centralised optimisation studies”
Charles Fouche, Engineering & Optimisation
New tenders won
Centrailised optimisation
Easy to accomodate unique customer requirements
“We estimate that we've reduced our transport costs by 10% per ton delivered.”
Frédéric Poirier - Logistics & IT Manager
Transport costs reduced by 10%
Optimised mix of own vehicles and third parties
Maximised driver and vehicle utilisation
