Efficient Fleet Planning with Descartes
Route optimisation is the process of selecting the ideal path for a delivery vehicle to travel.
However, if there are more than four stops on each delivery route and with a fleet of more than ten vehicles, optimising delivery routes manually will be difficult, time-consuming, and ineffective.
Solve Your Fleet Routing Challenges
- Delivery location, distance, and traffic flow
- Transportation costs and driver hours
- Clean Air Zones, toll roads, and hazardous materials
- Route restrictions and optimisation factors
Unlock Efficiency with Optimised Delivery Routes
The time of day, traffic patterns, predicted travelling speeds, the direction of turns, and driver rest will all be taken into account.
Route Optimisation Software Benefits
Optimised Deliveries
- More accurate and reliable delivery times and ETA’s
- Reduced driver hours
- Reduced vehicle mileage and lower CO2 emissions
- Increased productivity and delivery density
Improved Resource Management
- Improved utilisation of existing vehicles and drivers
- Improved customer service and satisfaction
- Reduced driver stress and fewer accidents
- Reduced costs
Proven Results from Existing Customers
- Increase delivery capacity by up to 35%
- Increased fuel efficiency >15%
- Up to 25% cost reduction
- Customer delivery satisfaction increased by 40
- Savings of £2m per annum
Route Optimisation Software Features
Continuous optimisation
Achieve more efficient route plans for your fleet over traditional batch-based optimisation techniques and provide costed delivery options at the point of sale in seconds to influence buyer behaviour.
Automated route scheduling
High density delivery routes are created, utilising the drivers and vehicles available to deliver more and reduce costs. Delivery routes can be based on the most efficient routes not just fastest routes. Automatically optimise final mile delivery routes to save fuel and money.
High quality traffic data
Very accurate route times are possible using road speeds that are based upon the day, the time of day, the route taken and even the direction of travel, giving you confidence in the route schedule and your customers delivery times.
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 in the world, at any time.
Accurate ETA's and delivery times
Improved customer satisfaction with on-time deliveries and a reduced office workload as the number of phone calls enquiring after deliveries diminishes.
HGV route planning
Generate optimised routes specifically for fixed or articulated HGVs that take into account the height, length and weight of vehicles, allowing for low bridges, width barriers, weight restrictions and vehicle turning circles.
Customer Successes
“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
“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+
“The last-mile delivery solution has saved us approximately 25 hours per week in delivery planning for the Transport Manager and added 17 productive hours daily across our driver team. With the extra time available to us, we have focused on increasing delivery capacity, staff training, and pursuing other strategic goals.”
Jon Robshaw, Transport Manager
Planning time saved 25hrs/wk
Customer Experience Paperless
Fleet Size 17
“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+
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