Routing, Mobile & Telematics

By integrating design, planning, execution, performance management, mobile solutions and telematics, Descartes maximizes the productivity of mobile resources including fleets and field personnel, improves customer service, provides real-time visibility, and captures the necessary data to drive world class logistics operations. Descartes Routing, Mobile and Telematics suite supports the end-to-end processes fleet operators use to:

• Create plans that best serve customers while minimizing costs;
• Ensure that the plans are being executed in the field and address changes in real-time;
• Instantly capture and distribute customer data from the field;
• Track the performance of vehicles and related equipment; and
• Comply with government reporting and working mandates

Customers can benefit from modular, feature-rich, cloud-based applications that are designed to readily scale up or down, be easy to use and deliver rapid return on investment. Descartes' comprehensive suite can deliver rapid time-to-value and play an integral part in supporting and improving a number of key logistics functions and processes, including:

• Strategic Delivery Planning – helps companies build new services, sales territories and replenishment strategies that maximize customer service and profit. 
• Daily Route & Load Planning – basic and advanced features to accelerate a company's ability to continuously create reliable routes using fewer trucks, miles and drivers.
• Reservations – enables real-time reservation scheduling to make pickup, delivery, or service promises that keep the fleet productive and the customer happy.
• AVL – helps improve customer responsiveness through real-time resource location and status updates, forward schedule predictability and enhanced exception alerting. 
• Dispatch – leverages integrated wireless devices to enhance real-time job and status communication with drivers and field workers to improve customer service and react to dynamic pickup, delivery or service environments.   
• Wireless Fleet Management –powers Dispatch and AVL with in-cab and handheld wireless devices to that provide GPS tracking, route itineraries, stop statuses, turn-by-turn navigation, and stop data collection.
• Telematics and Compliance – sensor technologies, digital mapping, and two-way communication transform the accumulated data into information needed for analyzing and optimizing an entire fleet. This solution helps streamline government and regulatory reporting for vehicles, drivers, cargo and equipment over state, national and international borders.
• Sales and Merchandiser Management – enables straight forward planning, tracking, productivity management, and automated payroll integration for mobile sales workers, retail merchandisers, and other field workers.
• Reporting Services – a standard reporting tool that allows for easy drag and drop report generation so users can create and modify sophisticated reports in minutes.

Descartes Routing, Mobile & Telematics Features:

• Web-based access to a full suite of route planning and optimization tools;
• Continuous optimization for dynamic order and resource situations;
• End-to-end functionality for planning, dispatch and mobile connectivity;
• Advanced reporting and analysis tools;
• Support for passive tracking (e.g. GPS) and driver interaction (e.g. handheld computers) in real time;
• Support for a full range of mobile devices (e.g. black boxes, Java phones, BlackBerry devices, Windows Mobile devices, and touch screen PCs);
• Engine diagnostics using fault codes;
• Driver driving behavior;
• Maintenance scheduling;
• State mileage reporting;
• Fuel efficiency reporting; and,
• Hours of Service for DOT regulations compliance.