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How is Interstate Batteries transforming its distribution operations to meet today’s challenging demands?
Learn how leading distribution companies are redefining their strategies, tactics and technologies to dramatically improve the way they serve customers and achieve new levels of delivery productivity.
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Here are some of the ways we have used our logistics expertise and advanced planning, execution and mobile solution to help distributors like Interstate Batteries:
- Create a differentiated delivery experience
- Reduce delivery costs
- Become more agile to react to changing market demands
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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
Mobile Apps
Distribution Analytics
See how other distribution companies are using Descartes to be more productive and agile
“We want our customers to be able to rely on us to deliver right to their door, every time, wherever they are throughout Australia. With the Descartes solution, we have the tools to better tailor delivery times to suit customer needs, and to better manage a growing fleet of trucks that performs more deliveries to metropolitan areas than any other auto parts supplier in the country.”
Ankur Arora
General Manager, Operations
ACM Parts
“As our business has become more fluid during the COVID-19 crisis, the ability to use the Descartes solution to make real-time adjustments is proving even more valuable than we anticipated. By using advanced routing capabilities, we can continuously optimize the route planning horizon and simultaneously respond in real-time to day-to-day changes to our service schedule. With over 2,000 site visits daily, the system helps us focus our technicians where and when they are needed most as customers nationwide continue to navigate the disruption.”
Mike Massaro
Executive Vice President of Operations
BFC Solutions
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