Descartes StoreTrac

Dynamic Visibility for Inbound Retail Store Deliveries

Planning for incoming deliveries can be very time-consuming for retail store managers.

It’s often based on broad assumptions and requires a lot of guesswork. Frequently stores

are staffed for shipments that don’t arrive or understaffed for large unexpected deliveries.

Plus, managers don’t know what product they are receiving until the delivery arrives

and they have opened the cartons. The result? Wasted time and money.

Retail operations can reduce uncertainty and increase planning efficiency with detailed

visibility of the flow of goods from distribution centers to stores.

Optimal Planning with Real-Time Data

Quantity
Carton and unit counts

Carton and unit counts
are constantly updated
so you know how much
labor will be needed for
deliveries.

Descartes StoreTrac is an easy-to-use tool that provides dynamic data for
incoming deliveries to retail stores. Using a simple, streamlined interface,
store employees can see updated shipment information, including:

Delivery Date
and Window
With real-time status
updates, stores
can be confident that
planned deliveries will
actually happen.

Carton Contents Every shipment is broken

• Associates will spend less time
randomly unpacking boxes searching
for specific products because they
know carton contents down to the
SKU level.

Carton Contents Every shipment is broken
down by category and
SKU to help staff plan floor
readiness (ticketing, folding,
hanging) and assist visual
teams planning store displays.

Stores can prepare
for carrier-specific
processes such as
delivery to the receiving
dock versus through
the front door.

HOW DESCARTES STORETRAC CAN BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS

• Using real-time delivery data, you
can efficiently staff the right people
for a delivery based on what’s in a
shipment and when it will arrive.

One retail company
480 store
with over
locations reported significant
planning
improvements using Descartes
StoreTrac.

It’s proven that more
accurate planning will
reduce your labor costs.

• Potential revenue can be gained
by avoiding pulling associates off
the sales floor to receive “surprise”
deliveries and by not staffing for
shipments that don’t arrive. • Associates can react quicker to

resulting in more than
$1M annual
savings.

• Associates can react quicker to
rush requests and easily answer
in-store replenishment inquiries
from customers to improve the
experience and “save the sale.”

ABOUT DESCARTES STORETRAC

Descartes StoreTrac facilitates accurate labor planning and promotes quick decision-making for shipment receipt.

• Mode Agnostic Available for retailers using pool distribution, truckload, LTL and parcel
• Single Point of Integration Efficient deployment plan and employee online training
• Easy Access Web based, no local installation needed
• Simple User Interface Designed to account for typical store employee turnover
• Client-Configurable Reports CSV, PDF and JPEG export options
• Analytics Corporate and regional store groupings available for summaries

Descartes: Uniting the People & Technology That Move the World

Descartes is a global leader in uniting businesses in commerce by providing cloud- based logistics and supply chain solutions that improve productivity, performance and security. Leading retailers both large and small depend on Descartes technology to better manage the end-to-end processes involved

in the transportation of goods from suppliers to end consumers. Whether the challenge is store distribution, home delivery

or global/local inbound logistics, Descartes solutions using real-time collaboration and shared visibility help retailers

ensure the right goods are transported to the right location, at the right time and for the lowest cost.

For more specifics on how Descartes StoreTrac can help your company optimize labor planning and gain additional revenue potential, visit descartes.com/industries/retail