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Working with leading retailers around the globe, Descartes has developed real-time integrated route planning and mobility solutions to enable retailers to grow revenue, increase margins and provide differentiated customer service. These home delivery...
Provide a Differentiated Customer Experience While Reducing Costs and Growing Revenue Home delivery success starts during the buying process and ends after the goods are delivered. Descartes’ solution covers the end-to-end buyer journey. It enables...
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The strategies, tactics and technology of home delivery are evolving quickly and constantly. It’s tough to keep up with the innovation that is happening in home delivery and also sort out the reality from the hype in the press.
U.S. distributor of food service equipment, Edward Don & Company, streamlines their delivery operations with Descartes’ cloud-based route planning and execution solutions, enhancing customer service and realizing substantial bottom line benefits.
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Mike Lombardi, Lean Operations Manager with US LBM, discusses US LBM's quest to find an automated routing and scheduling solution that is able to accommodate a highly variable environment and that required great operational discipline and...
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The race is on to crack the code on home delivery and leverage it as a competitive differentiator.
Fleet operations are increasingly playing a pivotal role in supporting growth, enhancing profitability and managing perceptions about value / brand image. Though traditionally disparate, the enabling fleet technology silos of i) planning, ii)...
Retailers have spent decades learning how to optimize the in-store experience. Now they will have to optimize the at-home experience. Home delivery services and same-day are driving retailers to rethink their processes.But are they looking at the...
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This research unveils the secrets of retailers who run profitable home delivery services Retailers have spent decades learning how to optimize the in-store experience. With the increase of consumers making purchasing decisions based on more than just...
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A comprehensive MRM solution meets the needs of manufacturers, retailers, distributors and their logistics services providers by managing the entire delivery process, and enabling them to optimize and gain real-time control over their logistics...
To win market share and remain profitable in a growing competitive environment, efficiently managing driver performance and customer service demands is paramount. Here are 5 ways to help ensure you improve performance.
Descartes Order Notification™ service enhances call center effectiveness while improving customer service. Your customers can automatically be notified of scheduled or adjusted delivery times via e-mail, phone call, or voice message. This direct...
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Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Services with Descartes, describes the three core components of the Descartes business model, placing Customer Success at the forefront, and explains the technology behind the Logistics Technology...
Logistics is different. If logistics is your business or a critical element to its success, you know this. You have to manage inventory, resources and documents that are all concurrently in motion with business processes that extend to the edge of...
Managing fluctuating delivery cycles, constantly changing routes and a demanding customer base that insists upon timely delivery of goods, is an ongoing challenge for rental product delivery organizations. It is critical to ensure that deliveries and...
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Descartes offers a strategic solution for the Propane Gas industry that streamlines the process of planning fixed and dynamic routes and managing fleets in the field. With the Descartes route planning and scheduling solution, operators can optimize...
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Working with leading retailers around the globe, Descartes has developed the latest version of it real-time integrated route planning and mobile solutions to enable retailers to grow revenue, increase margins and provide differentiated customer...
Descartes provides on-demand supply chain management solutions that are offered on a pay-as-you-go basis. The Descartes solutions use real-time data to provide visibility into delivery cycles to help you with route planning and scheduling, route...
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Scenario: Top line growth is hard to achieve in the tough and highly mature consumer packaged goods market. A leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) company recognized that one of its most important assets for revenue growth was its extensive...
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Companies that supply bulk or cylinder propane gas must balance the pressure to reduce costs with accurate and efficient service delivery to ensure residential and commercial customers always have an available gas supply. An added challenge is that...
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