Rotech Healthcare is a national leader in providing respiratory and sleep apnea treatment as well as home medical equipment. Guided by a mission to deliver outstanding customer service and the very best in quality patient care, Rotech Healthcare has selected the cloud-based Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand software to automate planning, dispatch and data collection processes for its fleet delivering medical equipment and services to patients across the U.S.

Providing medical equipment and services direct to patients’ homes often involves significant complexity and transportation resources. By automating route planning and scheduling, Rotech Healthcare will be able to increase efficiency and drive down unnecessary logistics costs without sacrificing high quality service for customers. As the current tide of healthcare reform adds more margin pressure to the home medical equipment (HME) industry, Rotech is making key technology investments in its distribution and logistics operations to help support the service standards that customers expect while reducing fleet costs.

Mexico Export Manifest, Modernization & How Filers Can Keep Pace

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was created to help promote economic growth by easing the flow of goods and services between Canada, the United States and Mexico. As a result of trade agreements as well as the need for modernization, security requirements and other factors; each of the three governments is creating separate single window systems patterned after the World Customs Organization (WCO) model.

In Mexico, the implementation of the Ventanilla Unica is a significant milestone towards facilitating trade by improving procedures and replacing paper with digital information. With added automation and improved connectivity, Mexico may be better equipped to realize further benefits from Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) such as NAFTA and others, including the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).