Food & Beverage Deliveries

Find out how to optimise distribution and deliveries in the food & beverage industry

Descartes has the industry expertise to understand and meet the needs of the food & beverage distribution industry and provide solutions to increase productivity, improve asset utilisation and reduce your carbon footprint.
Descartes will also help to improve your customer service whilst growing your business.

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Here are some of the ways we've used our last mile expertise and advanced solutions to help food and beverage delivery companies like yours.

Increased productivity and capacity
Reduced operating costs
Improved regulatory compliance and made it easier
Enhanced customer satisfaction

Customer success - Great Lakes Wines & Spirits

Strategic Route Planning: A Blueprint for Profitability

This eBook can help you 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.

Download the Strategic Route Planning eBook

Traditional distribution models are being challenged as food & beverage 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

Customer success & resources

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Customer Successes in the food industry

See how others like you are reducing delivery costs and maximising asset utilisation with integrated routing and mobile solutions, such as Edaward Don & Co., Performance Food Group, Brenham Wholesale and US Foods.

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Brochure - Improve Food & Beverage Operations

Leveraging Real-Time Data and Business Analytics
Serving demanding customers with time-sensitive needs is not a new business trend for food and beverage distributors. It’s a daily reality. To be successful in this highly competitive market, organisations are embracing next-generation logistics technology to lower operating costs, increase productivity.

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Route planning and optimisation

With rising customer service demands, labour and fleet costs, congestion, regulations, competitive pressure and more, creating optimised route plans and delivery schedules is more complex than ever.
Descartes can help. We empower your planners, drivers, dispatchers, and operational management with the industry’s most advanced tools that are powerful yet simple to use.

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Customer success - US Foods

U.S. Foods is a leading foodservice distributor with a product lineup spanning more than 350,000 items. To support its rapid growth while ensuring customer satisfaction, the company replaced its inefficient paper-based order management system. Descartes’ mobile solution helped streamline and automate the company’s ‘last mile’ logistics processes to increase productivity, improve accuracy, and reduce costs.

Customer success - Schweppes

Schweppes Belgium, an international soft drink producer, optimised its beverage distribution process with dynamic route planning software, helping them keep their commitment of delivering within 48 hours of order.

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