- Categories:
- Transportation Management
- Routing, Mobile & Telematics
- Distribution
- Transportation & Logistics Services
Enhancing the Building Supply, Lumber, Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC & Other Construction Industries
Descartes offers the industry’s most comprehensive fleet management software solution. We can help you reduce miles driven, fuel costs, vehicles and drivers, offer tighter and more reliable time windows, track driver and vehicle performance.
If your distribution operations operate in part or wholly on purchased transportation, reducing complexity and costs, and having greater visibility and control over the entire shipment process are important in meeting both your profitability and service objectives. Descartes’ Transportation Management solutions can address the end-to-end shipment and transportation lifecycle.
Building Supply, Lumber & Other Construction Industry Case Studies
American Electrical Supply, a premier provider of industrial and commercial electrical products in Southern California, used a manual dispatch approach that caused considerable duplication of effort, delays, wasted time, excess fuel and frustration by drivers and customers alike. The implementation of Descartes Route Planner RV™ and Descartes Wireless/GPS™ has enabled AES to plan and manage its entire delivery process to reduce costs and increase customer satisfaction.
BC Sands is a leading supplier of premium building and landscape products in a demanding Australian marketplace. “With Descartes’ dynamic delivery software and Bestrane’s domain expertise, we’ve moved from ‘best guess’ times for deliveries to accurate, scheduled time windows,” explains Mark Parsons, Managing Director, BC Sands. “We can meet same-day delivery expectations, keep customers informed and easily amend orders on the fly, while increasing consistency of our ability to ‘Deliver In Full, On Time (DIFOT).”
- Home Improvement Retailing February 2017 - Paperless Logistics Increases Level of Service: Read the in-depth, two page article describing the capabilities and benefits of our solution for the home building and supply market. The article highlights the BC Sands success story.
Ferguson Enterprises, the largest distributor of residential and commercial plumbing supplies in the United States, has benefited from features such as electronic proof-of-delivery as well as real-time status visibility to their customers and inside sales associates. Ferguson has also realized "significant improvements" in both customer service and operational leverage through the use of Descartes technology. Read the Press Release.
Independent Electric Supply, a leading electrical distributor throughout Arizona and California, is using Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand and Descartes Mobile™ solutions to improve the efficiency of its distribution operations.
SRS Distribution, a leading roofing distributor in the U.S., is using the Descartes Telematics & Compliance™ solution to automate nationwide hours of service (HOS) tracking and reporting for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). The cloud-based solution complements SRS' existing cloud-based Descartes Route Planner On-demand™ deployment for route planning and execution.
Stephenson's Rental Services for home builders, and general and commercial contractors providing demolition, electrical or mechanical services. To address the need for visibility into its delivery operations Stephenson’s began evaluating a variety of solutions. The Descartes visibility and route planning solution provided Stephenson’s with two key elements it required: real-time visibility and the flexibility to plan on demand or as orders come in for the future.
US LBM Holdings, LLC, one of the largest and fastest growing lumber and building materials distributors in the United States, needed an automated routing and scheduling solution that was able to accommodate a highly variable environment. Descartes Route Planner™ is providing US LBM with dynamic delivery planning and execution capabilities and Descartes Mobile™ offers US LBM real-time two-way update capability to help improve its customer service and productivity.
US Supply Company, a provider of plumbing, heating, and HVAC equipment supplies and accessories for residential, commercial, and industrial contractors in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the growth of the company, carrying a large number of products in inventory, the need for centralization, and the growing cost to serve – US Supply was compelled to search for a solution to increase service reliability and manage complexity. US Supply selected Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand vehicle routing and scheduling software to help with the centralization of their delivery operations, to manage and organize inventory replenishment and delivery needs.
Wolseley one the world's largest specialist trade distributor of plumbing and heating products to professional contractors and a leading supplier of building materials in North America, the UK and Continental Europe. By combining route planning and enabling the free flow of information between dispatchers and the field, Descartes' intelligent AVL solution extends the traditional route planning process and provides real-time visibility into the execution of the delivery plan.
