Helping Food & Beverage Companies Transform their Delivery Operations to Meet Today’s Challenging Demands
Descartes can help your company sell more, deliver for less and create a differentiated customer experience.
Learn how leading food and beverage distribution companies are redefining their strategies, tactics and technologies to dramatically improve the way they serve customers and achieve new levels of delivery productivity.
Here are some of the ways we have used our logistics expertise and advanced route planning, execution and mobile solution to help companies like yours:
- Create a differentiated delivery experience
- Reduce delivery costs
- Become more agile to react to changing market demands
Let’s get started on your distribution performance transformation.
Strategic Route Planning: A Blueprint for Profitability
Learn how to rapidly assess customer demand, service policy and network changes create an optimal delivery network that makes a difference to your customers and bottom line.
Traditional distribution models are being challenged as distributors look to improve profitability and find new ways to compete. New strategies, tactics and technologies are evolving to redefine how distributors serve their customers, change their cost structures and improve their ability to react to today’s fluctuating market demand.
Strategic Route Planning
Dynamic Delivery Appointment Scheduling
Continuous Planning
& Optimization
Real-time Dispatch
& Tracking
Distribution Analytics
Improving Food & Beverage Operations
Specific strategies to improve distributor strategic and operational agility
"With the Descartes routing software, we’ve saved approximately 10-15% in transportation costs. We’re also delivering to 25% more stops without having to add more drivers or more trucks. It’s definitely helped to give me more of my fleet back to support Brenham’s ongoing growth."
Bradley Trochta
Vice President
Brenham Wholesale
“We strive to be innovators in foodservice supply chain operations with world-class practices that meet our customers’ needs. Final mile delivery is a critical part of the customer experience. Logistics technology, like Descartes Perform, helps us supply the right product to the right customer while removing the overhead of legacy paper-based delivery processes.”
Bob Cantello
North American Transportation Director
Gordon Food Service
Want to learn how Descartes can help you make a difference with your distribution strategy?
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