Sanimax Expands Its Use of Descartes Throughout North America
ATLANTA, March 25, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Evolution 2009 User Group Conference -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, is providing more services to Sanimax across North America.
Sanimax currently uses Descartes Route Planner solution across its North American service and delivery operations. Sanimax has now added Descartes Sales and Territory Planner for service territory creation and service policy analysis and Descartes Transportation Manager for managing its outbound transportation process.
Sanimax began working with Descartes' Route Planner solution to build optimal service plans based on available routes, fleet resources and field personnel. Descartes' Route Planner solution is an easy-to-use application that helps improve operational efficiency by leveraging market-proven algorithms and geographic network modeling capabilities. The solution enhances the order fulfillment process while reducing costs through shorter routes, reduced fuel consumption and enhanced fleet utilization.
The addition of Sales and Territory Planner allows Sanimax to perform complex service scheduling that considers daily, weekly and multi-week pick-ups, as well as service on holidays and other non-working days. Sales and Territory Planner also evaluates geographic distribution and sales potential by customer to help establish optimal territories and routes. Descartes Transportation Manager allows Sanimax to manage contract truck carriers, from shipment planning through execution and settlement. These comprehensive offerings are hosted by Descartes, providing a lower-cost and shorter implementation approach than traditional enterprise applications, allowing customers like Sanimax to impact their bottom-lines quickly.
"With Descartes, our expectation is to become more efficient in having better route planning," said Charles Leduc, Vice President Transportation and Logistics at Sanimax. "More precisely, we're confident that we can do much more while using less fuel, driving fewer miles, improving customer service and reducing negative impact on the environment."
Descartes Route Planner, Sales and Territory Planner and Transportation Manager are part of the Descartes Delivery Management suite. The Descartes Delivery Management suite integrates design, planning, execution, performance management and messaging solutions that help manufacturers, retailers, distributors, service providers and their logistics services providers to optimize inbound and outbound delivery performance. It helps address business challenges including strategic delivery planning, warehouse optimization, daily planning, reservations, transportation management, supply chain visibility, mobile/dispatch/AVL, and connectivity and messaging.
"Sanimax is a is a great example of a customer that quickly achieved results in a specific area of its operations and is now able to extend these benefits to other areas of the business," said Adam Moore, Senior Vice President of Descartes. "We look forward to delivering continued results with this expansion."
About 2009 Descartes Global User Conference
Descartes is hosting its Global User Conference and Global Logistics and Customs Advisory Council meetings in Atlanta, Georgia on March 24, 25 and 26, 2009. Details on the events can be found at http://www.descartes.com/usergroup. The primary sponsors for the event are Xata, Avocus Group, BSM Wireless, CombineNet, Intermec, Motorola, Navteq, NationLink Wireless, SMC3, TeleAtlas, Telogis, Turnpike Global Technologies, and Viewnyx. Descartes customers speaking at the event include the Vice President of Engineering at DHL Express, as well as spokespersons from CVS/Pharmacy, Delta Cargo, The Home Depot, Ideal Supply, Panalpina and others. Samuel Banks, Executive Vice President of Sandler & Travis Trade Advisory Services and retired Deputy Commissioner of US Customs will also be speaking at the event covering key issues and strategic global trends for international trade, customs and public health/safety agencies.
About Descartes
Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), is making the world a better place by enabling global organizations with logistics-intensive businesses to save money by improving the productivity and performance of their operations. Underlying Descartes' offerings is the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), one of the world's most extensive multi-modal business applications network. As a federated software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, the Descartes GLN combines with component-based 'nano' sized applications to provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services to help manage third party carriers and private fleet management services for organizations of all sizes. Descartes' solutions and services deliver results by enabling organizations around the world to reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven; improve pick up and delivery reliability; and optimize working capital through fleet visibility. Descartes' hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value. Descartes customers include an estimated 1,600 ground carriers and more than 90 airlines, 30 ocean carriers, 900 freight forwarders and third-party providers of logistics services, and hundreds of manufacturers, retailers, distributors, private fleet owners and regulatory agencies. The company has more than 350 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.
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About Sanimax
Sanimax has been in operation since 1927. It offers a sanitary system for the collection and recycling of cooking oil and grease generated by more than 7,000 foodservice customers in Ontario, including Burger King and McDonald's, among others. This division's fleet of 27 vans and trailers performs a range of pickup and delivery services round the clock at a rate of 25 to 30 stops a day. For more information, visit www.sanimax.com.
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