Route Planning and Scheduling Solutions
for the Foodservices Industry

For organizations servicing the foodservice industry, driving productivity through efficient distribution is critical for success. Whether supplying restaurants or cafeterias in schools and hospitals, customers rely on foodservice providers for accurate and timely delivery of goods. With demanding delivery schedules and low margins to contend with, the key to generating repeat business lies with streamlined delivery operations using engineered plans to increase on-time performance, minimize delays and boost efficiency.

Descartes provides an on-demand logistics management solution that is offered on a pay-as-you go basis. The Descartes solution uses real-time data to provide visibility into delivery cycles to help you improve route scheduling, optimization and customer service for a greater impact on your bottom line results.

Descartes' route planning and scheduling solutions helps foodservice companies

• Create engineered plans.
• Benchmark driver and customer performance.
• Provide dynamic route optimization and optimal route sequencing
• Monitor on-time delivery performance.
• Improve customer service, through proactive customer notification and exception management in the field.

Foodservice companies can use the Descartes Delivery Management Suite to address business challenges including Strategic Delivery Planning, Warehouse Optimization, Daily Planning (Route Planning), Reservations, Transportation Management, Supply Chain Visibility, MobileLink/Dispatch/Automated Vehicle Locator (AVL), Reporting Services and Connectivity & Messaging.

Descartes' foodservice customers include:

• Stewart Foodservice
• Empire Distributors
• Piller’s