DGAP-News: Descartes Systems Group /
Royal Canin Reduces Costs with Descartes' Route Planning Solution and
Expands Use Across France
28.04.2014 / 12:45
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PARIS, 2014-04-28 12:45 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting
logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that, Royal Canin, a
leading supplier of pet food in Europe, will expand its use of the Descartes
WinRoute(tm) route planning and optimization solution throughout its operations
in
France.
'Our initial deployment covered only seven distribution centres, and we
estimate that we've reduced our transport costs by 10% per ton delivered,' said
Frederic Poirier, Logistics and IT Manager at Royal Canin France. 'Descartes'
solution provides us with advanced decision support to create delivery plans
that provide the optimal mix of our own vehicles and third party contractors
required to meet our customer service commitments. We will roll-out Descartes
WinRoute across the rest of our 15 distribution centres in France to extend the
cost savings and operational improvements.'
Descartes WinRoute is part of Descartes' comprehensive Routing, Mobile and
Telematics suite. Its powerful optimization engine gives customers advanced
capabilities to reduce costs and improve customer service by maximizing vehicle
and driver utilization, reducing kilometres driven, and improving the
effectiveness and efficiency of planners and dispatchers. The system's flexible
modelling architecture considers different business rules, asset parameters,
driver capabilities, geographic data, and other constraints to consistently
create optimal routes across a broad variety of operational environments. It
also takes into account fluctuating traffic conditions to produce delivery
schedules that better reflect daily driving conditions.
'We're excited about the great results Royal Canin has been able to achieve and
look forward to helping them implement their remaining distribution centres,'
said Michel Waterschoot, VP of Mobile Resource Management - Southern Europe for
Descartes. 'Descartes WinRoute's comprehensive capabilities and ease of use is
perfect for companies, like Royal Canin, who want to quickly gain results and
expand benefits across their businesses.'
About Royal Canin
Royal Canin is a manufacturer of top-quality food products for pets and
distributes its products to specialized circuits such as professional breeders,
veterinary clinics, dog kennels, pet shops and agricultural cooperatives. For
over 40 years, the principle 'Dog and Cat first' has guided Royal Canin in its
mission: to provide the most precise and adequate nutritional answers to the
specific requirements of dogs and cats.
Royal Canin has 11 production plants and 4 research & development centers
spread around the globe. Its headquarters are based in Aimargues, France. Royal
Canin has been part of the Mars Group since 2002.
About Descartes
Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is the global leader in providing on-demand,
software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity,
performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Descartes has over
172,000 parties using its cloud based services. Customers use our modular,
software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure delivery
resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay
transportation invoices; file customs and security documents for imports and
exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in
the world's largest, collaborative multi-modal logistics community. Our
headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners
around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com.
This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of
applicable securities laws ('forward-looking statements') that relate to
Descartes' solution offering and potential benefits derived therefrom; and
other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results,
performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the
factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, 'Certain Factors
That May Affect Future Results' in documents filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities
commissions across Canada. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance
upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made.
We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly
any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any
change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances
on which any such statement is based.
CONTACT: Global Media Contact
Mavi Silveira
Tel: +1(800) 419-8495 ext. 202416
msilveira@descartes.com
Media Contact EMEA
Renate Kok
Tel: +31 (0)33 460 62 73
rkok@descartes.com
News Source: NASDAQ OMX
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