Vehicle Routing Software and Tracking Systems:
Fleet Management Software

Descartes Fleet Management Software provides daily planning solutions including vehicle routing, routing software and vehicle tracking systems to help accelerate a company’s ability to continuously create reliable routes using fewer trucks, miles and drivers.  Proactively builds daily delivery schedules and routes.

As each new order is placed, Descartes Daily Planning solutions reoptimize in real-time, allocating resources to help maximize operating efficiencies; deliver priority service to the most profitable accounts and routes; and maintain overall customer service objectives. Descartes Daily Planning solutions are designed to integrate easily with existing order management or transportation planning systems, and can help companies reduce costs as a result of shorter routes, reduced fuel consumption and enhanced fleet utilization.

Benefits and Capabilities of Descartes' Fleet Management Software

• Drops in orders throughout the day and the plan continually adjusts
• Offers detailed modeling of customer and operational constraints
• Enables wave picking by continuously releasing routes or parts of routes
• Enables centralized planning
• Can route sales and merchandisers with deliveries
• Available hosted or installed

Components (available on-demand or licensed)

• Route Planner (download PDF)
  

  Customer Profile: Always On
   “I need routing tightly integrated into my enterprise processes because my customers and orders change right up to and even beyond the time of dispatch.”

• Route Planner RS (download PDF)
  

  Customer Profile: Local Power
   “I want to quickly route large batches of orders just in time to hand off to the warehouse.  I want to run the software myself and would like the option to track my routes in real-time.”

• Route Planner On-Demand (download PDF)
  

  Customer Profile: Just Execute
  “I want a robust solution to build, dispatch and track routes, sales people and merchandisers, that I can deploy quickly.  I don’t want to have to administer the software.”

• Route Planner RV (download PDF)

  Customer Profile: Just Execute
   “I want a low cost, simple to use application that I run myself for basic route sequencing with an option to upgrade to mobile and AVL.”
  

• Sales and Merchandiser Manager (download PDF)

Sample Customers

• Schwan's, Ashley Furniture, Old Dominion Freight Lines, Ferrellgas, Tomra, Core-Mark, Singer Equipment, Columbia Distributing, DPI, Ideal Supply, John Lewis Partnership, Foster's Group, Comet Group, Argix, Gate City Beverage Distributors