Deliveries without boundaries
Improve customer service and productivity
Offer accurate delivery windows with confidence
Provide customer with self-select delivery windows
Smooth delivery demand across days and geographies
Descartes' scheduling software optimises every delivery
Tired of route planning headaches? Unleash your fleet's full potential with Descartes' leading solution. With continuous optimisation it quickly and easily optimises routes, saving you time and money while helping to ensure on-time deliveries. Experience the difference of enhanced customer satisfaction and reduced fuel costs.
Benefits of continuous optimisation for customer service
Unlike traditional batch-based systems, our solution continuously analyses and then plans incoming orders, factoring in previous orders, current capacity and driver availability. This dynamic approach ensures maximum vehicle utilisation, precise route planning, and accurate delivery time estimates.
Optimising routes and eliminating overbooking enables you to deliver exceptional customer service while reducing operational costs.
Upgrade your delivery planning and deliver without boundaries.
The software does all of the above, and more enabling your customers to select their own best delivery dates and times at the point of sale. This is all done based on your fleets’ current capacity and previous orders at the time a new order is placed.
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Choose Descartes for delivery management software that enhances fleet efficiency and operational success.
What to consider when choosing a Delivery Route Planning Software
You should first look for an optimisation tool that is designed to drive delivery density, increase productivity and reduce miles, along with the number of vehicles, routes and deliveries that it can handle. The Descartes route optimisation engine can do all of these.
Read our blog on six things to look for when choosing a route optimisation software.
Delivery density
It is vitally important to ensure that each route has adequate delivery density and optimises the route travelled, creating an even workload across the pool of drivers. These functions are carried out by Descartes' advanced route optimisation engine.
A company’s ability to continuously create reliable multi-drop delivery routes using fewer vehicles, miles and drivers makes them more flexible, able to cope with changes in demand and minimise costs.
Why use Descartes Delivery Route Planning Software?
It takes industry knowledge, innovation and understanding of a customer’s challenges combined with great technology to deliver results. Descartes has been providing multi-drop route planning optimisation solutions for over three decades. We have been innovating and refining our routing capabilities to address a myriad of routing problems in diverse industries and continue to invest in new and innovative technologies such as machine learning.
Our experience and attention to innovation has enabled us to provide solutions that address territory and strategic planning problems, dynamic route planning, same-day routing, multi-drop route planning as well as point-of-sale/appointment scheduling and much, much more.
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Descartes Delivery Route Planning Software will allow you to:
- Transform a costly delivery service into an efficient customer service asset.
- Utilise constant and continuous optimisation to select the best and most profitable days for all your deliveries
- Use your fleet across multiple depots to help satisfy demand
- Allow you to include collections or depot pick-ups/transfers as part of the delivery route
- Smooth delivery demand across different days and geographies
- Vary the number of daily delivery slots per route depending upon geography, fleet capacity and available vehicles.
- Improve delivery density, reducing mileage and associated costs
Features & Benefits
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.
High quality traffic data
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.
Integration with other Descartes fleet management and optimisation solutions
Descartes Route Planning Solutions have been designed to work with Descartes Mobile™ Applications, Transportation Management and Compliance Management solutions to provide a one-stop-shop for optimising in-house fleets and third party transport operations.
Wide range of solutions for all fleet operations
Descartes routing solutions can accommodate all fleet sizes and operations, from fixed static routes delivering for retailers to dynamic home delivery operations. Get more out of your fleet assets and reduce the cost of transport operations.
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 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
“Suffice to say, it has been one of the most profitable and productive changes we have made to the business. 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%
Daily Deliveries 1,450
Fleet size 50
“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
“Descartes solution shortens the time it takes to load our 250 daily orders into the best available vehicle, as well as to plan and route the optimal sequence of next-day deliveries—all while prioritising economical efficiencies. ”
Jon Robshaw, Transport Manager
Planning time saved 25hrs/wk
Customer Experience Paperless
Fleet Size 17
“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+
“Descartes’ route optimisation and mobile proof of delivery solutions, integrated with our vault management and cash processing solutions, have given us that end-to-end, digital chain of custody, while also increasing the efficiency of our operations.”
Fiacra Nagle, Chief Executive
Fleet efficiency improved 20%
Planning time reduced to 1 hour
Fleet size 80+
“Redefining the Customer Experience in the Tyre Replacement Market”
Jobs/van/day increased 194%
Mileage reduced 13%
Fleet size 400+
“Introducing Descartes’ ePOD has translated into substantial daily savings of 16.5 staff hours as a result of more efficient customer delivery and invoice processes”
Rachael Adamson, Director – South-East
Daily time saving 16.5Hrs
Paper saved daily 1000 sheets
Site safety Improved
“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+