Pharmaceutical Deliveries

Find out how to optimise and manage delivery and pickup collections more efficiently.

Descartes not only has the flexibility and industry expertise to meet the needs of pharmaceutical deliveries, especially to the home, but can also provide solutions to help your business increase productivity, improve asset utilisation and improve communications with your customers in real time, and to improve the customer experience whilst growing your business.

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Here are some of the ways we've used our last mile expertise and advanced solution to help other delivery companies.

Increased productivity and productivity
Reduced operating costs and lowered carbon footprint
Enhanced customer service and communications
improved on-time deliveries and audit tracking

Digital Proof of Delivery Solution

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

Customer success & resources

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How technology can enhance safety with no-contact deliveries

During public health emergencies, it’s essential to keep drivers on the road to help mitigate supply chain disruptions while meeting surging demands for medical supplies and consumer staples.

Technology can help limit personal contact during deliveries to protect the health and safety of both drivers and customers by ensuring social distancing.

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eBook - The Future of Pharmaceutical Shipment Tracking

This guide takes a look at tracking the chain of custody for pharmaceutical deliveries from freight forwarder and air cargo to last mile delivery and the customer.

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Blog - Route planning and telematics in a world marked by the shortage of drivers.

The integration of telematics and communications via mobile data allows the fleet manager and end customers to see precisely where a vehicle is located and where delivery is in real time against the plan and schedule established by the routing and planning software.

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Customer success - Rotech Healthcare

Rotech Healthcare is a national leader in providing respiratory and sleep apnea treatment as well as home medical equipment. Guided by a mission to deliver outstanding customer service and the very best in quality patient care, Rotech Healthcare has selected the cloud-based Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand software to automate planning, dispatch and data collection processes for its fleet delivering medical equipment and services to patients across the U.S.

Customer success - MedSpeed

"MedSpeed is transforming healthcare transportation into the more strategic intra-company logistics that has greater enterprise-wide value," said Jake Crampton, CEO of MedSpeed.
Descartes' route planning and execution solution supported the strategic, tactical and operational needs of MedSpeed's fleet. The combined solution can optimally determine service areas and visit frequency, plan daily routes, and manage delivery execution with integrated real-time dispatch and tracking capabilities.

Customer success - Alliance Healthcare, Radiology

Routes for Alliance’s fleet of mobile imaging units were being created manually and not always with the needs of the business in mind. Descartes' solution has enable them to improve driver utilisation and reduce the miles travelled for each delivery.

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