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To get the customer satisfaction and ROI you’re hoping for, your customers need to be engaged in every step of the process before, during, and after service.
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5 Tactics for Improving the Customer Experience Let's Talk Learn More E-commerce giants, food delivery apps, and ride-hailing services have raised the bar for the end-to-end customer experience. Now, customers expect nothing less than the...
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What is Customer Engagement and Why is it Important? Let's Talk Learn More In the typical logistics software stack, the concept of the customer has historically been neglected. Systems are built to deal with “jobs,” “orders,” and productivity - while...
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How Does Consumer Location Impact Ecommerce and Home Delivery Expectations and Actions? Let's Talk Learn More As retailers learn more about delivery personas, they need to understand how the geographic location of consumers changes their ecommerce...
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Learn how Fairmount Tire is moving more tires in less time and with fewer trucks thanks to Descartes’ last mile delivery solution.
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ATLANTA, Georgia, April 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Eastern Propane & Oil, one of the largest family-owned and operated energy providers in New England, has selected Descartes’ last mile delivery solution to supply propane to over 100,000 residential and commercial customers throughout New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont.
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Learn how Martins Atacadista, Brazil’s largest wholesale company, enhanced its delivery performance and saved money with Descartes’ Suite.
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ATLANTA, Georgia, and LONDON, U.K., March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq: DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that wholesale tire distributor Fairmount Tire & Rubber is using Descartes’ last mile delivery solution to digitize B2B ecommerce delivery operations across its five warehouse locations serving customers in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. The cloud-based solution helped the company to complete more stops per route, add between two-to-three additional delivery runs per day and enhance the customer experience by providing customers with real-time, map-based tracking.
Discover the Strategies & Tactics Leading Distributors Use To Overcome Today’s Challenges Operating a distribution company has never been simple. In recent years, it’s become even more of an uphill climb with surging fuel costs, driver shortages, and...
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Nathan Sanders, CEO of Brook Furniture Rental, discusses the company’s investment in Descartes’ routing technologies to transform distribution operations and significantly improve service standards for its B2C and B2B customers.
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Running an efficient, profitable distribution operation is no small feat. In recent years, it’s become even more difficult thanks to rising fuel costs, increased customer demands, and a changing order mix. Traditional strategic route planning can’t...
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Brook Furniture Rental is satisfying customers’ needs after switching to automated last mile delivery solutions from Descartes. Learn about the transformation.
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Adrian Gonzalez with Talking Logistics speaks to Descartes’ Chris Jones, EVP Industry & Services, for insights into labor shortages in the U.S. and globally, what this means in the short- and long-term for shippers, logistics service providers and...
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Driver Shortage? Use Route Optimization to Get the Most from Your Existing Drivers Let's Talk Learn More The driver shortage is not new news, it is big news and a global problem. Macroeconomic factors such as the accelerated growth of ecommerce and...
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The Damage Delivery Failures Can Cause and Getting Them Back on Track Let's Talk Download the Article Between the pandemic and rampant driver shortage, the quality of delivery service has significantly degraded over the last 18 months. While most...
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AI-based Configuration: The Future of Optimized Last Mile Delivery Let's Talk Learn More There’s always been tension surrounding the optimization technologies used for planning last mile delivery routes. The solutions that solve the toughest and most...
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Robotic Process Automation Improves Last Mile Delivery Performance Let's Talk Learn More Most logistics organizations still see a wide discrepancy in the results produced by their planners for their last mile delivery operations despite advances in...
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6 Ways Machine Learning Can Improve Fleet Performance Let's Talk Download the Article Machine learning (ML) has become a pervasive topic in supply chain technology circles. Machine learning can help fleet operators maximize the fleet performance...
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The 5 Key Components of a Digital Twin for Fleet Operations Let's Talk Learn More What is a Digital Twin? The digital twin is a powerful approach to better understand how operations work today or could work in the future. Through the creation of a...
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How Understanding Delivery Personas Will Change Your Home Delivery Top- and Bottom-Line Performance Let's Talk Learn More In home delivery there is an “arms race” when it comes to delivery speed. One company, however, is incentivizing customers to...
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