Route Planning & Optimization

Our Route Optimization Innovation Delivers Unmatched Results
A longstanding innovator in route planning software - our technology uses advanced algorithms and AI to deliver transformative improvements in both strategic and real-time dynamic daily planning.
Strategic Planning
Dynamic Route Planning
Hybrid Route Planning

Achieve 5-25% Average Cost Reduction Over Legacy Routing Systems and Manual Processes
With rising customer service demands, labor and fleet costs, congestion, regulation, competitive pressure and more, creating optimal route plans and service 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.
With proven success planning millions of routes per year, our customers benefit from:
- Increased route density and asset utilization
- Responsive and reliable performance that creates service differentiation
- Reduced planning time and resources
- Addressing the widest spectrum of planning environments
- Adapting and scaling with highly configurable technology
- Continuously improving operations with fully integrated dispatch, mobile, and telematics capabilities
- Accelerating efficiency with AI-driven automation

— Mark Parsons, Managing Director at BC Sands
"The Descartes solution is a unique and comprehensive platform. We could not find another last mile delivery solution that provides scheduling, delivery route planning and execution, proof-of-delivery, automated pre- and post-delivery notification services, and imaging functionality. It has fundamentally transformed our delivery operations."
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