Manufacturing

Consumer products (consumer durables and consumer packaged goods), high tech/electronics, food and beverage and discrete manufacturers must make and deliver goods to retailers at the right time, in the right amount and at the right price or face expensive penalties.

Descartes helps manufacturers:

• Optimize and gain real-time control of their inventory, logistics assets and mobile workforce.
• Improve visibility in the supply chain by receiving detailed information about product status and making better informed decisions.
• Be more responsive by reacting to retailers in real time.
• Reduce transportation costs and improve service.
• Identify supply chain issues quickly to reduce cost of delivery failures (out of stocks, plant shutdowns, service failures.
• Measure delivery performance in aggregate and by retailer.
• Optimize planning by driving decisions with integrated tools that consider business rules, transaction volumes, cost restrictions and other factors.
• Collaborate with suppliers to improve planning, responsiveness and cost effectiveness.
• Increase fleet productivity by improving performance between manufacturing facilities or distribution center-to-store deliveries.

Manufacturers will find that the Descartes Delivery Management Suite can address business challenges including Strategic Delivery Planning, Warehouse Optimization, Daily Planning (Route Planning), Reservations, Transportation Management, Supply Chain Visibility, MobileLink/Dispatch/Automated Vehicle Locator (AVL), Reporting Services, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Metrics and Connectivity & Messaging.

The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) helps connect trading partners quickly and efficiently using one of the world's largest multimodal networks of transportation and logistics services providers and their customers.

Descartes' manufacturing customers include:

• 3M, Ashley Furniture, Schwan's
• Samsung Electronics, Logitech, Coca-Cola Korea Bottling Company, Canon
• Sara Lee, PGT Industries, British American Tobacco
• Foster's Group