Descartes: Fuelling the Fleet Industry

Whether you need a quick fix for a transportation issue or an end-to-end solution, the Descartes transportation management suite can help

By leveraging its 30 years of proven experience, the company has built solid optimized planning, consolidation, and tendering capabilities that help clients determine the right consolidation options to reduce freight spend while meeting service requirements. “In speaking with customers over the last few months, we have seen a significant increase in transportation teams taking more control of their inbound freight,” adds Alan Dunkerley, VP, Product management, Descartes.

As coordinating multiple parties with multiple systems has historically made retail inbound logistics inefficient and hard to manage, retailers lack information and material visibility across their supply base. It leads to shipment delays, supply chain disruptions, and revenue losses that can severely affect a global business. Breaking this paradigm of having to coordinate multiple parties with multiple systems, Descartes has brought forth logistics flow control , a next generation retail inbound logistics transportation management solution , that ensures rapid return-on-investment. Integrated with multi-party Microsoft- based cloud solution, it enables logistics Flow Control, retailers, suppliers, carriers and brokers to use the same solution to manage the end-to-end purchase order management process. In addition, it further extends its capabilities by improving control of inventory in motion, reducing purchase order cycle time; transportation costs; inventory carrying costs, and custom filing fines. By leveraging data across all of the parties involved in the inbound supply chain, Descartes enables customers simultaneously manage their commercial, logistics and customs filing process.

Optimizing output from telematics, and route planning system enables fleet managers to unleash the full potential of fleet operations. In present day fleet industry, telematics powered fleet management operations offer a number of smart features that the fleet managers can use to empower the business. It also has the proven capability of making fleet efficient and productive by enabling fleet managers to see the routes that the drivers take when they are using the vehicle. With integrated route planning, route execution, mobile applications and vehicle telematics, Descartes proffers the industry’s most comprehensive fleet and mobile resource management solutions. While Descartes’ Routing, Mobile & Telematics suite supports the full, closed-loop process associated with route planning, route execution, driver and vehicle performance, it also helps deliver a true command of operations for improving the delivery schedule. It includes route planning, dispatching and GPS tracking, mobile applications, vehicle telematics, fleet/driver, compliance and performance analytics.

Descartes’ solutions have been deployed by clients from various industries including transportation and logistics services, manufacturing, retail, distribution, business services, and public sector. Besides, to automate and standardize business process, Descartes brings forth a Designer partner program to ensure that logistics-intensive organizations can access all the multi-product and multi-channel services they need for business success. Going further, the company is focused on developing future-ready solutions that exceed the capabilities of fleet operations.