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Your Business Needs a Last-Mile Delivery Solution

Learn how to transform your last mile delivery performance — it all starts with a different perspective and vision to turn delivery into a competitive advantage.

Track Anything, Anywhere.

Descartes' innovative logistics management platform allows customers to better manage and track last-mile deliveries using real-time data. The scalable, cloud-based platform provides digital tools to improve planning and simplify processes, helping delivery service providers improve customer satisfaction, increase operational efficiency and boost driver performance.

Faster Shipping

Boost Driver Performance

Faster Invoicing

Route Planning

Route Execution

Enahnced Proof of Delivery

Transform Your Last-Mile Delivery Operations

Explore how advanced technology is enabling service providers and couriers to transform last-mile operations and create an end-to-end delivery experience that provides a competitive advantage.

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Descartes ShipTrack solution can help you cost-effectively manage your last-mile delivery operations.

AI-based Configuration: The Future of Optimized Last Mile Delivery Planning

There’s always been tension surrounding the optimization technologies used for planning last mile delivery routes. The solutions that solve the toughest and most unique problems and deliver differentiating results are also the most complex and require significant domain expertise to implement and maintain. Those companies that make the skills investment reap the largest rewards in terms of business performance improvement.

Robotic Process Automation Improves Last Mile Delivery Performance

Most logistics organizations still see a wide discrepancy in the results produced by their planners for their last mile delivery operations despite advances in route planning technologies in recent years. Some planners consistently generate route plans that are lower cost, better utilize resources, and deliver the best customer service. Considering that these better performers are using the same route optimization technology the rest of their planning cohorts, how can this be?

What is Last Mile Delivery

Last mile delivery is the final movement of a customer order from a facility such as a distribution center or store to the end customer. Final mile deliveries are typically executed by parcel carriers, couriers, LTL carriers and private or dedicated fleets.

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Best Practices for Last Mile Delivery

The lessons learned from delivery innovators across retail and distribution industries around the globe are that technology and a willingness to break from traditional logistics thinking are what separate their performance from the rest of the pack. Technology is an incredibly important enabler of world class delivery performance as its impact spans from demand generation to the post-delivery experience. Download our Last Mile Delivery Best Practices eBook to learn more.

Let our customers tell you why they chose Descartes

Ricardo Costa Chief Information Officer Purolator

“Our relationship with Descartes ShipTrack fulfills our hardware, software and service needs and ensures we'll stay ahead of the digital needs of our customers and our industry for years to come.”

Roy Levy Owner YYZ Logistics

“Platform wise every client has different needs, and to find an all-in-one solution that can solve that can be tricky. That is why we have been so happy with Descartes ShipTrack, because all the checkmarks are there for what we are trying to bring to our customers from a technology standpoint.”

Eric Francoeur General Manager Precision Home & Office Deliveries

"We've taken on one of the top five retailers in the world. And in the past year, we've increased the volumes ten-fold that we were handling with them and we are hoping to do equal to that in the next twelve months."