Mobile Navigation App for Deliveries
Having a fully optimised route and plan for deliveries is one thing, but managing it in real-time with unexpected traffic delays, damaged or missing goods and failed deliveries is another.
Descartes Mobile™ Applications provide real-time data communications to manage customer exceptions and eliminate traditional paper-based processes to improve efficiency and enhance the customer experience.
Use our navigation mobile app for delivery drivers to get each vehicle in your fleet to the right place at the right time.
Delivery navigation GPS app: En-route capabilities
- Turn-by-turn navigation - improve driver productivity and help drivers.
- Plan vs. actual performance - monitoring and alerts.
- Automatic delivery status updates - alerts when routes are not followed or schedules at risk.
- Real-time updates - enables dispatchers to adjust routes or deliveries.
- Events captured - arrivals, departures, and delays provide an accurate status of delivery schedule and location.
- Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) - Global Positioning System (GPS) location data to monitor plan vs. actual.
- Shipment status updates - alerts automatically triggered when designated routes not followed or the vehicle is behind schedule.
Customer success
“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 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+
“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%
Enable your drivers with mobile navigation apps
For courier drivers, GPS navigation apps have proven effective in finding stress-free and efficient routes to complete their deliveries.
While the majority of courier drivers plan their routes using their own local knowledge, smart navigation software comes in very handy if there are unforeseen traffic issues or road construction in areas that you are less familiar with.
A road atlas, which has likely been rattling around in a glove box for many years, is out of date the day it was printed compared to working out a route using a GPS-based navigation app, which is current and reactive to traffic conditions at the time.
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