Descartes Route Planning Software

Descartes Route Planning Software is a route optimization solution that helps fleets plan, schedule, dispatch, and monitor delivery or service routes. It considers operational requirements and constraints to create practical, cost-efficient route plans.

The software evaluates information such as customer locations, orders, delivery windows, vehicle capacity, driver availability, service times, and business rules. It then determines efficient routes and stop sequences based on those requirements.

The solution can support private fleets, distributors, retailers, wholesalers, delivery companies, field service organizations, and other businesses that manage multiple vehicles, stops, or customer appointments.

Yes. Descartes automates much of the planning process, helping teams create and review complex route schedules more quickly than they could through manual planning alone.

Descartes can help reduce unnecessary mileage, travel time, fuel consumption, overtime, and inefficient vehicle use. Actual savings depend on the fleet’s operations, configuration, and route requirements.

Yes. Customer time windows can be included as planning constraints, helping fleets create schedules that reflect promised delivery or service periods.

Yes. The software can consider vehicle capacity and order requirements when assigning stops, helping prevent routes from exceeding the available carrying capacity of a vehicle.

Yes. Descartes can support daily and multi-day planning, depending on the business’s operational needs and configuration.

Yes. Planners and dispatchers can update routes as orders, priorities, vehicle availability, or operating conditions change. This helps fleets respond to disruptions without manually rebuilding every route.

Descartes connects planning with route execution, giving dispatchers greater visibility into assignments, route progress, estimated arrival times, delays, and exceptions that may require attention.

The software can create more realistic routes by considering travel times, service durations, customer time windows, and other constraints. This can help fleets improve schedule reliability and on-time performance.

Yes. Descartes can support estimated arrival times based on route plans and available operational information, helping dispatchers and customers better understand when a delivery or service visit may occur.

Yes. Fleet teams can compare planned activity with actual route execution to identify delays, inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve future planning.

More realistic schedules, dependable arrival estimates, and improved route visibility can help businesses provide customers with a more predictable delivery or service experience.

Yes. The software can distribute work according to available vehicles, capacity, schedules, locations, and route requirements. This can improve utilization and help fleets complete more work with their existing resources.

Yes. Route planning can consider driver schedules, working hours, route duration, and assigned stops. This helps planners distribute work more appropriately across available drivers.

Yes. Businesses can use strategic planning capabilities to evaluate territories, fixed routes, fleet size, service policies, distribution locations, and other long-term operational decisions.

Yes. Businesses can evaluate how changes in customers, order volumes, service requirements, or operating regions may affect fleet capacity and route performance before making major investments.

Yes. Descartes Route Planning and Dispatch is available through the Geotab Marketplace and can complement Geotab-connected fleet operations by combining route optimization with vehicle and route-execution information.

GPS Tracking Canada can help businesses explore how Descartes Route Planning Software fits their routing, dispatching, and fleet management needs. Contact us to discuss your current operations and the available solution options.