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The Ultimate Route Planning Tool for Beverage Distributors Let's Talk Learn More Beverage distribution brings its own challenges. Delivering thousands of beverage cases each week means contending with tight delivery windows, fluctuating demand, and...
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Global trade compliance underwent massive changes in 2024, driven by increased enforcement actions, evolving regulations, and a complex geopolitical landscape. A few leading agencies playing key roles in shaping global trade compliance include: EU...
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Facing a Forced Routing Software Upgrade? Tips to Evaluate Your Provider’s Fit Let's Talk Learn More Key Takeaways For food and beverage distributors facing a forced migration to new routing software, evaluating your provider’s fit is crucial to...
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The Routing Evaluation Kit Ready to boost your delivery performance? Our Routing Evaluation Kit helps you identify ways to streamline routes, cut costs, and improve efficiency. Get the insights you need to optimize your logistics and stay ahead of...
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The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the agency responsible for enforcing U.S. sanctions, has introduced an interim rule to extend the recordkeeping requirements of relevant transactions to align with the new 10...
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Why Driver Safety Training is Essential for Reducing Liability and Boosting Revenue Let's Talk Learn More Delivery service providers are constantly looking for ways to improve their efficiency, productivity, and at the end of the day, profitability...
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Driver Safety in Extreme Weather: Strategies to Protect Your Team While Meeting Customer Demand Let's Talk Learn More Key Takeaways Protecting driver safety: Safeguarding drivers during extreme weather is both a moral obligation and a business...
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7 Ways Beverage Distributors Can Reduce Fleet Costs and Maximize Efficiency Let's Talk Learn More Key Takeaways: Maximize Fleet Efficiency: Balance delivery loads to make the most of existing vehicles and avoid costly fleet expansions. Reduce Fuel...
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How Smart Geocoding Improves Delivery Accuracy for Beverage Logistics Let's Talk Learn More Key Takeaways: Smart geocoding enhances delivery precision by using exact latitude and longitude coordinates, ensuring drivers reach specific entry points...
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Web Seminar: Unlocking Routing Efficiency - A Customer Success Story - Pepin and Descartes Let's Talk Learn More Watch our on-demand web seminar where we explore how Pepin Distributing, a leading beverage distributor in Tampa, FL, transformed its...
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) play a crucial role in business growth and market expansion. However, the integration of another company’s operations brings complex export compliance risks. M&As can expose organizations to unexpected liabilities...
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Navigate Your Way to Mastering Route Planning for the Beverage Distribution Industry Let's Talk Learn More Key Takeaways Beverage distribution is unique in that various aspects of the business need to be considered in the route planning process...
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Navigating the complexities of global trade requires more than just understanding market dynamics—compliance with export regulations is essential. Obtaining an export license is a critical component of this compliance, serving as formal authorization...
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Numerous businesses across Tampa, FL rely on Pepin Distributing to keep their shelves and fridges stocked with leading local, national, and import alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Eager to take the business to new heights, Pepin chose to work...
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Mitchell Companies, a total beverage distributor and longstanding Anheuser Busch wholesaler, replaced its legacy Omnitracs Roadnet solution with Descartes’ strategic and daily route planning and route execution platform for delivery and sales...
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Arctic Glacier, North America’s leading manufacturer and distributor of packaged ice, implemented Descartes’ strategic route planning solution to achieve more agile and efficient routing, improve fleet performance, and enhance the customer experience...
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Shore Point Distributing Company, Inc., a longstanding New Jersey beer distributor serving restaurants, bars, and beer stores for 90 years, recognized the need to adapt to the evolving distribution landscape. In a strategic move to enhance efficiency...
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Lift Off Distribution, the third largest distributor of Red Bull energy drinks in the U.S., is attaining better levels of customer service and greater operational efficiencies after replacing manual practices with an automated solution for route...
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With a seasonal peak in the summer months, Schweppes consistently commits to delivers within 48 hours, on the basis of orders received by fax, e-mail, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) or phone. As soon as an order is put into the system, data is...
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Java is a food distributor and wholesale dealer that distributes about 39,000 tons of food every year to private and public kitchens in Belgium. Java is number 2 in the foodservice industry in Belgium and manages a product line of 10, 000 customers...
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