Royal Canin Reduces Costs with Descartes' Route Planning Solution and Expands Use Across France
April 28 2014 - 6:45AM
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™ 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 Frédéric 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.
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Tel: +1(800) 419-8495 ext. 202416
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