Daily Planning (Route Planning)

• Descartes Daily Planning solutions 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.

Key potential benefits and capabilities

• 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)

• Descartes 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.”

• Descartes 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.”

• Descartes 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.”

• Descartes Route Planner RV (formerly RouteView) (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.”
  

• Descartes 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