Descartes

Product Overview

Descartes’ logistics management solutions combine a multi-modal network, the Descartes Global Logistics Network, with business applications to provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services for contract carriers and private fleet management services.  These solutions and services help Descartes’ customers reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven and improve pick up and delivery reliability.  Our hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value.

Descartes offers solutions that can be deployed as traditional applications or as a service to help customers optimize and gain real-time control of their inventory, logistics assets and mobile workforce.

The Descartes Delivery Management Suite integrates design, planning, execution, performance management and messaging solutions that help manufacturers, retailers, distributors, service providers and their logistics services providers to optimize inbound and outbound delivery performance.  It helps address business challenges including strategic delivery planning, warehouse optimization, daily planning, reservations, transportation management, supply chain visibility, mobile/dispatch/AVL, and connectivity and messaging.

Product Solutions:
Route Planner (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Always On
“I need routing tightly integrated into my enterprise processes because my customers and orders change right up to and even beyond the time of dispatch.”

Route Planner RS (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Local Power
“I want to quickly route large batches of orders just in time to hand off to the warehouse.  I want to run the software myself and would like the option to track my routes in real-time.”

Route Planner On-Demand (download PDF)

Customer Profile: Just Execute
“I want a robust solution to build, dispatch and track routes, sales people and merchandisers, that I can deploy quickly.  I don’t want to have to administer the software.”

Route Planner RV (download PDF)
Customer Profile: Just Execute
“I want a low cost, simple to use application that I run myself for basic route sequencing with an option to upgrade to mobile and AVL.”

Sales and Merchandiser Manager (download PDF)

Key Advantages of Our Solutions Include:

• Cost Reduction through faster billing cycles; reduced dependence on fleet and contract carriers; improved route economics (shorter drive times and fewer miles driven), driver and operator performance, and service time consistency; visibility into rates, slack times and waiting times; and reduced manual data entry and administrative costs.
• Improved Customer Service through increased on-time arrival, setting of customer delivery windows, proactive exception management and notification of order and shipment status.
• Reduced Complexity through the standardization and automation of manual and labor intensive processes, real time access to multi-channel network and resources, more accurate data capture, universal access to data by any person in the field or in the office, and a hosted and managed environment.
• Business Compliance through streamlined customs and border control document administration and business process management.