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An event like COVID-19 (coronavirus) changes everything. One big change is the number of vehicles on the road. There has been a significant reduction in traffic and, as a result, actual road speeds have increased. If your company uses a route...
Regardless of industry, company size, or geography, keeping customers satisfied and coming back for more is the driving force behind any successful business. In a distribution-based business, exemplary customer service that keeps clients happy is...
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Selecting a route optimization solution can be daunting. Weighing customer requirements, return on investment, company standards, change management, IT resources, and planning time all play into the decision-making process. The industry experience...
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Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes Transportation management solutions have been offered to the public for several decades. The first generation of TMS solutions had to be implemented on premise, was extremely complex to...
Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes Customers often begin discussions with us on mobile solutions by stating that they want to track resources and measure the productivity of mobile field and distribution workers. The...
Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes There have been some interesting developments in the area of private fleet and for-hire carrier operations over the past few years. We have seen a significant increase in customer...
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Challenge: A global courier company has a dedicated express delivery operation that moves everything from small envelopes to pallet-sized goods across its vast network. Each day thousands of trucks are dispatched from multiple locations performing...
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For more than 70 years, Americans have relied on Ferrellgas for their home, business, and agricultural propane needs. To meet its customers’ needs, Ferrellgas relies on a fleet of approximately 2,600 delivery vehicles, including 1,950 Bobtail trucks...
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One of the world’s leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) company came to us with the challenge of achieving top line growth in the highly mature CPG market. They recognized that one of their most important assets for revenue growth was the extensive...
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Effectively managing delivery routes involves two distinct phases. First, a plan must be built to efficiently deploy vehicles while satisfying customer demands. Then, it must be fine-tuned to reflect real-world changes. With the right tool, planning...
Traditionally, route planning and mobile resource management (MRM) were two separate technologies and markets. Neither was designed with the other in mind. This resulted in two challenges for customers. Firstly, the architecture of each of the two...
Lee Karlinsky is Vice President, Alliances & Corporate Accounts at Descartes Download a presentation from Descartes’ Global User Group Conference to hear Kraft discuss how they used advanced mobile technology to improve their sales and merchandising...
Mobile Resource Management (MRM) is the process of optimizing, dispatching and tracking the use of assets and people that are involved in the movement of goods. For organizations with delivery fleets, mobile resource management is a key process yet...
The proliferation of high capability devices and innovative software, coupled with the drive for efficiency in business processes and mobile technology’s role in achieving that, is ushering in a new era of mobile resource management (MRM). On the...
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The oil market remains focused on the Middle East and North Africa as U.S. oil prices surged above $100 a barrel last week, while prices in Europe hit a high of $120 a barrel. These levels have not been seen since 2008. In addition, a new survey from...
How does a business grow from being a one-person operation to one of the top 25 carriers in the industry? By constantly increasing efficiency and improving their customer service, that’s how. How do businesses continue to grow with fuel costs soaring...
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What is Mission Critical? Mission Critical: Activity, device, service, or system whose failure or disruption in normal business hours will result in the failure of business operations. For example, for an online business, the communication system is...
March 21, we announced that our valued customer, Ferguson, implemented our cloud-based MobileLink solution. Descartes MobileLink™ is a GPS enabled wireless application that is integrated with Ferguson’s implementation of Descartes Route Planner™...
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Sergio Torres is Vice President, Product Development at Descartes The questions many of you face, is where will the savings come from and how much could I save? We wanted to give you a simple way to help quantify your fleet operations savings by:Back...
We are excited to let you know that DC Velocity, the industry leader in information for logistics managers and executives, has extended Chris Jones, Executive Vice President of Marketing & Services, the opportunity to blog on supply chain and...
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