Route Scheduling Software for Delivery Vehicles
Unlock the potential of your delivery operations with Descartes' proven delivery route scheduling solutions.
Say goodbye to manual route planning struggles and embrace automated optimisation that saves time, boosts efficiency, and ensures on-time deliveries. With our proven technology, you can enhance customer satisfaction, reduce fuel costs, and increase fleet productivity.
Descartes' scheduling software will continuously analyse orders as they come in and consider the delivery resources and capacity available, as opposed to taking a batch of orders that are hoped to be delivered next day or sometime in the future.
This ensures that vehicles and drivers are fully utilised, taking precise routes, and not being over-committed outside of their normal working hours and legal drivers’ hours limits. As a result, we are able to confidently predict delivery ETAs with automated notifications to the customer, knowing that vehicles and delivery routes are as ideal as feasible with the highest possible delivery density.
How does Descartes’ Delivery Scheduling Work?
Schedule better, generate revenue, save money - watch a brief overview of our the Delivery Scheduling module.
Features & Benefits
Customers select reservations
Provide an enhanced delivery experience with costed delivery options at the point of sale. Increase sales of goods and value added services.
Dynamic slot scheduling
Increased customer satisfaction and increased sales through self-selecting delivery times and days.
Continuous background optimisation
Achieve more efficient route plans for your fleet than traditional batch-based optimisation techniques and provide costed delivery options at the point of sale in seconds.
Cloud-based software
Our fleet route scheduling Software is available over the internet wherever you have a connection, providing team access to our solution, working from any location at any time.
Customer Sucesses
“Descartes ePOD solution has unlocked considerable benefits for both our business and our customers. We have seen the number of requests for PoD decline dramatically and have received increasingly positive feedback from our customers.”
Peter Russell, IT Director, Carpet & Flooring
Customer POD requests reduced 80%
Successful 1st Time Deliveries Increased
Operations costs Reduced
“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
“Redefining the Customer Experience in the Tyre Replacement Market”
Jobs/van/day increased 194%
Mileage reduced 13%
Fleet size 400+
“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
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