Raising food deliveries to the next level

The secret ingredient for food and beverage deliveries

Solving logistical challenges within food and beverage industries

Serving demanding customers in hospitality with time-sensitive needs is an established requirement for food and beverage distributors, is a daily reality.

If distributors don’t get the right products to customers at the right time, in the requested location and in good condition, their bottom line will suffer.

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Overcome Food & Beverage Distribution Challenges

Customer Service

Improve customer service with customer-enabled order tracking and automated delivery notifications. Throughout the order lifecycle, customers receive updates via email or SMS. These messages provide a link to a branded, online customer portal where clients may check the status of their orders and follow their driver's location on a map in real-time.

Keep Perishables Fresh in Transit

Food and beverage logistics require precision. Without smart route planning, perishables risk delays and spoilage. To meet demand and shelf-life expectations, teams must optimise and automate routes, prioritising fast, efficient delivery through to the last mile.

Driver shortages

It is a challenge to meet increased demand and delivery expectations with the well-publicised driver shortage. Overcome this challenge using routing and scheduling software to optimise your fleet deliveries. Existing Descartes customers have increased delivery capacity by 35% without adding vehicles or drivers.

Controlling Rising Fleet Costs

Rising fuel, maintenance, and labour costs demand smarter delivery planning. Optimise routes, increase delivery capacity, and reduce mileage without compromising service quality.

Becoming More Sustainable

Reduce miles driven, fuel consumption, and CO₂ emissions while selecting the most efficient vehicle for every delivery.

Cash flow

Digital Proof of delivery will reduce fraudulent claims of damage and reduce the time to process deliveries to reduce the time to invoice deliveries and time to payment.

Logistics Solutions for Food and Beverage Transportation, Distribution and Route Optimisation

Food and beverage suppliers are embracing the next generation of fleet optimisation technology to cut operating costs, increase productivity, and meet higher customer expectations, while ensuring product integrity and security.

Descartes specialises in providing fleet optimisation SaaS solutions to help food and beverage manufacturers, suppliers and distributors improve productivity and reduce costs.

In a single integrated suite, Descartes offers the key capabilities needed to plan and execute efficient delivery routes effectively; communicate with drivers in real-time; improve distribution centre productivity and measure real-time and historical performance – all while taking customer service to the next level.

Solutions & Results

Challenges

Solutions

Results

Customer Successes

Royal Canin
“We estimate that we've reduced our transport costs by 10% per ton delivered.”
Frédéric Poirier - Logistics & IT Manager

Heartland Coca Cola
“Throughout the process, the level of collaboration and effort from the Descartes team to deliver the solution in the way we asked has been amazing.”
Curtis Akerman, Business Process Lead for Delivery

John Lewis
“Descartes Reservations™ and Route Planner™ solutions were integral to our strategy of offering a more extensive, but unified delivery service. The advanced optimisation capabilities and architecture of the Descartes solutions were critical, bringing new delivery service options to our customers in an economically feasible way.”
Andrew Gay - Systems Manager

Telesuper
“Descartes' Route Planner™ On-demand helps us have more efficient delivery operations by taking into account our assets, business rules, customer requirements and geographic information. Seamless mobile solution integration ensures we can track actual performance against optimized route plans and address new work or delivery exceptions as they happen to better serve our customers.”
Nimmoo Adam, IT Manager

Gefco
“Descartes route optimisation software was designed to be deployed in an operational capacity to manage collection & distribution rounds. We have now adopted it to respond to calls for tenders and support our regional business units by undertaking centralised optimisation studies”
Charles Fouche, Engineering & Optimisation