Route Planning Software

Discover why enterprise fleets trust Descartes to automate smarter, faster route planning at scale.

Deliver more with less, track every step, cut emissions, and let AI plan the smartest routes

More Stops, Less Distance

AI-Driven Route Logic

Track Every Mile

Greener Journeys

Automated Route Planning Software

• Real-time planning: Assesses orders and delivery capacity the moment they're received.
• Optimised slots: Calculates the most efficient delivery windows - fast.
• Customer control: Lets shoppers choose their ideal delivery time at checkout.
• Hands-free efficiency: Automatically selects the best slot when speed matters.

Improve your productivity with Descartes route planning software

Say goodbye to the daily challenge of planning delivery routes and hello to automated and optimised route planning.

Reduce Costs and CO2

• Offer delivery slots that take into account profitability, capacity, and environmental impact.
• Eliminate paperwork with digital proof of delivery.
• Minimise environmental impact with reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

Route Planning Software Solutions

Dynamic Route Planning

Dynamic route planning software offers the potential to adapt to changing customer demand, lower operational expenses, and enhance fleet efficiency.

Hybrid Route Planning

Hybrid route planning enables you to reduce costs and improve service to your customers by combining fixed deliveries for your top customers with dynamic deliveries for other customers.

Strategic Route Planning

Incorporate strategic route planning to maximize efficiency, respond to changing customer demand, meet new business objectives, and identify optimal entry points into new markets.

Delivery Reservations

Automated delivery scheduling, the ability to allow customers to choose their own delivery slots, determined by resources available will improve customer satisfaction.

Route Optimisation

Use clever mathematical algorithms and artificial intelligence to dynamically optimise delivery routes from the latest road network data in real time.

Delivery Route Scheduling

The concept of delivery route scheduling is to determine which delivery vehicle an order should be transported on and the best order in which a delivery vehicle should make its deliveries.

Multiple Drop Route Planner

Plan and optimises multiple drop delivery routes, including address verification and the ability to track a vehicle's progress in real-time against the planned route.

Why Is Route Planning Important to Your Fleet?

Case Studies

“Overnight our business was transformed. Our planning team and drivers love using Descartes... Since introducing Descartes, Stop Start’s daily delivery volume has increased 50%. This rate of growth would not have been sustainable without digital planning tools.”
— Andrew Bayne, Managing Director

Daily planning time reduced 75%
Annual distribution costs saving £450k
Delivery capacity increased 12%

Working with Descartes, we’ve saved 13% on annual fuel costs, which equates to approximately 354,000 fewer miles driven. — Lee Holmes, Transport and Logistics Director

Annual Fuel bill reduced 13%
Productivity improved 56%
Annual savings £2 million

“With Descartes in place, our team of planners has automated and streamlined previous manual planning processes, allowing us to optimise our vehicle usage and minimise CO2 emissions.” — Rachel Hopkins, Chief Information Officer

CO2 Emissions Reduced
Sales Capacity Raised
Operational Efficiency Improved

“Redefining the Customer Experience in the Tyre Replacement Market”

Jobs/van/day increased 194%
Mileage reduced 13%
Fleet size 400+

Route Planning Software Benefits

Effortless Optimisation

Descartes route planning software works continuously in the background and takes the guesswork out of route planning and scheduling deliveries.

Increased Efficiency

Eliminate manual planning route planning software saves valuable time in planning deliveries. It considers factors such as traffic conditions, distance, and vehicle capacity to create the most efficient routes for drivers, every time.

Improved Customer Satisfaction

As well as enabling customers to select their preferred delivery slots, Descartes route planning software will help ensure that deliveries arrive at the expected time.

Reduced Fuel Costs

Optimised delivery routes result in fewer miles per delivery and reduced costs.

Improved Productivity

Providing drivers with clear and efficient delivery schedules reduces stress, improves delivery times, and increases efficiency.

Customer engagement

Enhance customer service and receive important information from the customer pre-delivery and customer feedback immediately post-delivery. Allow customers to track their delivery on a map in real-time.

Unlock the full potential of your delivery operations with Descartes' proven route planning software.

Route Planning Software FAQ’s

• What are the benefits of using route planning software? From reduced planning time to improved customer service. Benefits are quickly realised, resulting in reduced time and costs to implement an optimised delivery schedule.
• Does the software take traffic data into account? Yes, using the latest data from several mapping sources, Descartes’ route planning software will use time of day, direction of travel, and average speeds to calculate optimal delivery routes.
• Can the delivery route planner account for a variety of vehicle types and capacities? Yes, the data for the entire fleet is added at setup and updated by your delivery scheduler as required. The Delivery route planner software will take all these factors into account when selecting the best vehicle for each delivery.
• What is the return on investment for using route planning software? This will depend upon your fleet size, along with the number and type of deliveries you make, but the savings will be significant, with reduced fuel consumption, lower maintenance costs, shorter planning time, improved capacity utilisation, and potentially more sales as a result of improved customer service.
• Will the route planning software integrate with my existing ERP system? Descartes has previously helped hundreds of companies implement delivery route planning software and has integrated it with many different ERPs; your ERP solution is most likely to be on this list already.