Mass Merchants

Mass merchant retailers are gaining market share through significant growth and market penetration. They know that the name of the game in retail is reducing costs, improving asset turns and improving margins through private label operations. However, delivering many different items to many different locations is a daunting task—the key is getting the right product to the right store at the right time. And that often means coordinating across thousands of trading partners and millions of items across thousands of retail stores.

Descartes helps mass merchant retailers:

• Improve private-label margins by reducing inventory and logistics costs in the private-label business.
• Increase trading partner connectivity, regardless of technology levels, through electronic communications.
• Gain visibility and responsiveness to all stages of planning and execution, including tracking goods from raw materials to delivery.
• Drive revenue and improve customer service by reducing out of stocks.
• Reduce transportation costs.
• Improve performance and reduce miles driven in distribution center-to-store deliveries.
• Manage dock appointments.
• Collect and organize delivery and compliance statistics. 

 
Mass merchant retailers 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.

The Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) helps connect trading partners quickly and efficiently using one of the world's largest multimodal networks of transportation and logistics services providers and their customers.

Descartes' mass merchant customers include:

• AutoZone
• Ashley’s Furniture
• CVS/Pharmacy
• John Lewis Partnership