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Delivery options that fit your delivery personas are key to increasing revenue.

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The Delivery Persona: How Consumers Really Think About Home Delivery

When retailers craft a variety of delivery experiences, customers can self-select the one that best fits their delivery persona.

How Can B2B Distributors Improve Fleet Performance?

Adrian Gonzalez of Talking Logistics and Descartes' Brad Bradley discuss route planning best practices, transforming poor performers into top-notch fleets for business success. Watch the video and ...

A New Era in Beverage Distribution: Insights from WSWA Access Live 2025

Non-alcoholic drinks are on the rise. Cyndi Brandt, VP of Fleet Solutions at Descartes, provides key takeaways from WSWA Access Live 2025 and what it means for the future of beverage distribution.

How to Choose the Right Route Planning Solution

This free buyer's guide will help equip you with the knowledge and insights needed to analyze the offerings in the market and, ultimately, make an informed buying decision that gives you the result...

Enabling More Profitable Home Delivery

Chris Jones, executive vice president, industry and services at Descartes, addresses the two fundamental elements to enabling more profitable home delivery operations: delivery personas and custome...

How Retailers Are Using Customer Delivery Personas to Protect Profit Margins

Savvy e-commerce retailers are segmenting customers and building delivery personas that reflect the delivery expectations of their customers. Learn what customers want and how delivery segmentation...

Online Buying Grows, But Too Many Consumers Still Experiencing Delivery Woes

Despite year-over-year improvements by retailers and logistics providers, consumer dissatisfaction remains high. In North America and the U.K., ecommerce is expected to surpass brick-and-mortar pur...

Breaking Barriers: Overcoming Legacy Systems in Beverage Distribution with Descartes

Embark on a transformative journey with Mitchell Distributing as they unveil their roadmap to modernizing routing and mobile systems in our exclusive webinar. Will Woodall, Sales Execution Coordina...

Taking Beverage Distribution to the Next Level

In recent years, rising costs, demanding customers, and fluctuations in supply and demand have added to the challenges beverage distributors face. This white paper delves into the advanced strategi...

BC Sands Elevates the Customer Experience

By optimizing its last-mile delivery, this distributor of sand and other bulk building materials is keeping pace with a dynamic environment. Learn how Descartes has helped the business meet demand ...

Supply Chain and Logistics Innovation Accelerates but Has Long Way to Go

This study by Descartes reveals that many supply chain executives are planning to invest more in innovation initiatives as a result of the challenges faced in recent years. Learn more.

Richards Building Supply Enhances Delivery Performance

This wholesale distributor of building materials in 12 states prioritized last-mile delivery to meet contractors' high delivery expectations. Learn how switching from paper to Descartes' innovative...

Next-Generation Distribution Strategies, Tactics & Technologies

This guide covers the greatest challenges distribution companies face when trying to provide exceptional customer service and remain profitable. It also delves into the advanced strategies and tact...

Why Plan Versus Actual Fleet Performance Measurement is So Important

This white paper explains how plan versus actual performance measurement benefits your fleet and provides tips on how to maximize fleet performance and customer experience.

How to Choose the Right Route Planning Solution for Food Service Distributors

Explore our complimentary guide tailored to empower you with the essential information and perspectives required to evaluate the array of route planning solutions available. This resource will assi...

US LBM Transforms its Results with Real-Time Visibility

Discover how one of the largest building products distributors in the US has boosted productivity and customer service with Descartes' route planning and last-mile delivery system. Dive into the de...

Strategic Route Planning: A Blueprint for Profitability

Don't struggle to keep up with increasing customer expectations and competitive pressure to differentiate. Learn how an ongoing strategic routing process and regular delivery network re-routes can ...

Network Reroutes and Dynamic Route Planning Can Lead to a Dramatic Improvement in Productivity

Now is the time for distribution companies to look hard at their current fleet strategies, tactics, and use of technology to make a step change in operational performance. Discover the value networ...

Why Smart Scheduling Is a Must for Distributors

This whitepaper addresses the challenge of setting delivery appointments in distribution. To give customers more options for delivery while maximizing delivery efficiency, business leaders need to ...

How Does Consumer Location Impact Ecommerce and Home Delivery Expectations and Actions?

As retailers learn more about delivery personas, they need to understand how the geographic location of consumers changes their ecommerce buying and home delivery preferences. Learn more in Descart...

Reducing the Impact of High Fuel Costs Goes Beyond the Transportation Department

When it comes to mitigating rising fuel costs, a team effort is necessary. Descartes' Chris Jones explores the ways departments outside of transportation can make a significant difference.

What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge?

What are supply chain and logistics organizations doing to improve worker productivity, attract and retain employees, and find alternative labor sources to mitigate workforce challenges now and in ...

Retailers: Sustainability is Not a Challenge, It’s an Opportunity

The environment is becoming an increasingly important issue to consumers. So, what are retailers doing to address sustainability? Gain insights from this study of over 8,000 consumers across nine E...

Best Practices for Last Mile Delivery

How do your delivery capabilities stack up? Get the strategies, tactics, and technological approaches to create an end-to-end last mile delivery experience that makes a difference.

Introducing the Descartes Customer Engagement Platform

In the fast-paced world of logistics software, there’s an often-overlooked aspect: the customer. While systems focus on “jobs,” “orders,” and productivity, the real person at the end of the chain i...

Fleet Innovations: Continually Advancing State-of-the-Art Solutions

Learn how Descartes is delivering the next generation of routing, mobile, and telematics solutions by fusing technological advancements with in-depth domain expertise gained over many years.

Fleet Innovation Resource Center | Descartes

Innovation has been central to the evolution of Descartes’ routing, mobile and telematics solutions. Never before has there been a convergence of so many technological advancements available to acc...

Fleet Data is the New Oil

To achieve a high degree of execution and minimize costs, successful fleet operators focus on driver and vehicle performance, ensuring regulatory compliance and retaining drivers. Learn why telemat...

How Bad is the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge?

Descartes recently surveyed 1,000 supply chain and logistics decision-makers about workforce shortages' impact on operations and business success. Seventy-six precent are experiencing notable short...

Why Food Distributors Need Smart Scheduling

Today’s tough environment is challenging food distributors’ approaches to scheduling customer deliveries. Shrinking margins and increasing customer expectations mean that the traditional brute forc...

Top 10 Tactics to Tame the Unpredictability of Fuel Prices

For continued fuel price volatility, logistics-focused businesses must take strategic and tactical actions. Find out what your company can do—with minimal financial investment—to steady the wild sw...

Leading Building Materials Distributors Share Their Results

Discover how building materials distributors are transforming their performance by using advanced solutions to plan and execute delivery operations. Learn from the stories of five businesses like y...

Taking Food Distribution to the Next Level

In recent years, rising costs, demanding customers, and fluctuations in supply and demand have added to the challenges food distributors face. This white paper delves into the advanced strategies, ...

High Fuel Prices and Logistics: Actions Companies Can Take to Mitigate the Impact

Descartes' Chris Jones offers simple strategies that logistics service providers can employ to lessen the effects of high fuel prices as well as other tactics to combat the challenge and even outpe...

SIG UK Improves Fleet Efficiency and Boosts Sales

Discover how this leading building materials has achieved transformative results, such as improving delivery capacity by 25%, with Descartes’ last-mile delivery solution. Read the full story and le...

2023 Home Delivery Consumer Sentiment Study

The latest study by Descartes and SAPIO Research shows some improvement in home delivery performance by retailers and delivery companies compared to last year, but a high level of consumer dissatis...

Home Delivery Sustainability: Consumers Expect More!

Home delivery and sustainability are seemingly at odds, yet both are fully embedded in the behavior of most consumers and increasing in importance. How are consumers reconciling, and what should re...

US Supply Company Consistently Hits Performance Targets

This leading distributor of plumbing and heating supplies is leveraging Descartes’ optimized routing to elevate performance to the highest standards and reduce costs. Learn how centralization playe...