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Organizations with last mile delivery operations are faced with an increasingly competitive marketplace. They are constantly challenged by customer demands, driver shortages, and adverse economic conditions. These and other circumstances dictate that...
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WATERLOO, Ontario, October 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Merchants Foodservice, the 12th-largest foodservice...
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Aceitera el Real, a global producer of vegetable oils, fats and their derivatives, distributes products nationally across multiple channels in Nicaragua. With a customer-centric vision, the company replaced its manual routing system with Descartes’...
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Going Paperless with Descartes Heightens Delivery Performance for Customers As a wholesale distributor of building materials serving 12 states with 60 locations, Homer Glen, IL-based Richards Building Supply (RBS) invested in route planning and...
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For more than 65 years, Americans have relied on Ferrellgas for their residential, industrial/ commercial, and agricultural propane needs. Ferrellgas has grown from humble beginnings, as a family-owned propane supplier, to a publicly-traded, Fortune...
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Stewart Foodservice is a foodservice distribution company with 75 employees and over 450 customers. Its impressive roster of customers range from family owned restaurants and chains to institutional cafeterias. While Stewart Foodservice had a...
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Tony’s Fine Foods is the largest privately-owned distributor of deli, bakery, food service, specialty, and perishable products in Northern California. Tony’s Fine Foods’ fleet travels more than 130,000 miles each week, offering distribution services...
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New Zealand’s leading supplier of building materials and hardware, PlaceMakers differentiated its customer delivery experience by centralizing the distribution function for 63 stores nationwide using dynamic route planning. By optimizing same- and...
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US LBM Holdings is a leading U.S. distributor of specialty building materials with more than 250 locations across the country, providing more than 60,000 SKUs of specialty products such as windows, doors, millwork, roofing, siding, cabinetry and...
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WATERLOO, Ontario, April 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Nashville, TN-based BFC Solutions, the largest self-performing, preventive maintenance service provider for commercial HVAC systems in the U.S., is using Descartes’ dynamic route planning solution to meet new demands as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. By automating route planning and execution for its service operations, the cloud-based solution is helping BFC Solutions to be as responsive as possible to satisfy the needs of customers on a national level.
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ROUTING, MOBILE & TELEMATICS FAQs What is Electronic Proof of Delivery (EPOD)? Connect with Us Proof of delivery (POD) is the process that creates the documentation validating the receipt of goods by customers. Traditionally, POD has been...
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Delivery strategies, tactics and technologies have evolved rapidly for B2C and B2B companies. Industry leaders have proven that they can compete on the strength of their delivery capabilities. The myth that higher service levels result in increased...
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Steering Nationwide Delivery Toward Greater Efficiencies Based in Melbourne, Australia, ACM Parts was established in 2013 to provide new and innovative solutions to address inefficiencies in Australia’s automotive parts supply chain. With rapidly...
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Boosting Distribution Efficiency with Descartes’ Dynamic Routing Solution As a leading supplier of roofing and building supplies to residential and commercial customers in Michigan and Northern Ohio, family owned Wimsatt Building Materials required a...
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Driving Exemplary Customer Service with Descartes Ideal Supply, a major wholesale distributor to the electrical, industrial and automotive industries, required a streamlined, integrated, and cost-effective logistics management solution. With the aim...
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US Foods is one of the largest foodservice distributors in the United States. We distribute all the supplies that a restaurant, hotel or any other type of company in the food service industry may need. US Foods has 60 distribution centers with more...
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WAXIE differentiates itself from competitors by having orders delivered on time, at the right price, with exceptional customer service. By replacing manual processes, Descartes’ cloud-based dynamic route planning and mobile solution enabled WAXIE to...
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Multichannel Merchant on Brook Furniture Rental’s use of Descartes’ home delivery solution to optimize delivery appointment scheduling.
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WATERLOO, Ontario, July 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that ACM Parts, a leading nationwide automotive parts supplier in Australia, is using the cloud-based Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand solution to help centralize nationwide delivery operations and standardize the delivery experience for customers. The Bestrane Group, a Descartes ‘United by Design' partner in Australia, implemented the solution at ACM Parts.
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As business continues to stabilize in the new normal, distribution-oriented companies find themselves in one of the following situations: volumes are up but costs have risen faster - or, volumes are down considerably, and they don’t appear to be...
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