Routing, Mobile & Telematics

SAP Insider features key findings from Descartes’ recent study on the state of workforce shortages in supply chain and logistics, including that 76% of leaders surveyed reported experiencing notable workforce shortages in their operations.

American Journal of Transportation on how Wren Kitchens is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling and route optimization solution to help surveyors complete 56% more visits to customers and save the company £2 million annually.

Global Trade Magazine shares how Wren Kitchens implemented Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling and route optimization tool to efficiently manage appointment booking for surveyor visits to customers, saving the company £2 million annually.

Retail Wit features how Wren Kitchens is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling, route planning and optimization solution to improve surveyor productivity, completing 56% more customer appointments and reducing its overall ‘cost per appointment’, saving the kitchen retailer £2 million annually.

ATLANTA, Georgia and LONDON, U.K., April 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, released findings from its study What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge? The study shows that 54% of the supply chain and logistics leaders surveyed are focused on automating non-value-added and repetitive tasks with technology to improve worker productivity in the face of notable workforce shortages, which underscores the many functions in supply chain and logistics that are routine and non-integrated, requiring manual intervention. To help drive productivity gains for labor workers, the top technology choices in the study were delivery route optimization (54%) and driver mobile productivity (45%) solutions. For knowledge workers, the top technology choice in the study was real-time shipment tracking (53%).

With 76% of supply chain and logistics operations experiencing notable workforce shortages according to Descartes’ recent study, especially in transportation, Commercial Carrier Journal highlights the importance of retaining existing drivers and outlines why a driver advisory board is an effective way to gain valuable insight into the workforce to improve driver retention.

Industry analyst and Talking Logistics host Adrian Gonzalez speaks to Descartes’ Chris Jones on the state of workforce shortages in supply chain and logistics today and how the issue is affected by factors such as a company’s financial performance, growth, employee turnover and view of the importance of supply chain operations to the business.

MHI Solutions shares insights from Descartes’ Chris Jones on how machine learning and artificial intelligence in route planning systems can help companies take last mile delivery to the next level by crunching massive amounts of data from their operations each day to improve route efficiency and optimize routes to meet business objectives.

IT Supply Chain shares insights from Descartes’ Chris Jones on how technology-driven route planning can help many distributors improve fleet productivity by 2%–5% annually, with 50% fewer planners being able to plan routes for 70-100 vehicles each.

LONDON, U.K. and ATLANTA, Georgia, March 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that the U.K.’s leading kitchen retailer, Wren Kitchens, is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling, route planning and optimisation solution to improve surveyor productivity allowing them to complete 56% more customer appointments and significantly reduce its overall ‘cost per appointment’, which has saved the company £2million annually. The solution has dramatically improved the productivity of Wren’s surveyors, who typically visit a customer’s home to provide estimates for kitchen or bedroom renovation projects.