Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Rotech Healthcare has selected Descartes’ cloud-based Route Planner™ On-demand solution to automate planning, dispatch and data collection processes for its fleet delivering medical equipment and services to patients across the U.S.

“Quality care and managing patient outcomes are at the core of our business. Our distribution and logistics operations play an integral role in our ability to deliver on this commitment,” said Tim Pigg, President & CEO at Rotech Healthcare. “As the current tide of healthcare reform adds more margin pressure to the home medical equipment (HME) industry, we are making significant technology investments to increase efficiency and drive down unnecessary logistics costs without sacrificing high quality service for our customers.”

Descartes’ Route Planner On-demand is an easy-to-use cloud-based solution. It provides fast time-to-value for rapidly-growing companies, like Rotech, that need to consolidate delivery operations and move away from manual and paper-based practices for route planning and execution. The solution offers advanced capabilities to optimize both static and dynamic routes by taking into account business rules, delivery assets, and customer requirements. Planners and dispatchers benefit from better visibility and control over daily routes with a drag-and-drop visual planning user interface to make edits and monitor delivery status throughout the day. Mobile solution integration provides real-time GPS-based tracking, planned versus actual performance monitoring, and the electronic capture of proof-of-delivery (POD) information.

“Descartes is excited to help Rotech Healthcare make its distribution and logistics operations more efficient and responsive,” said Andrew Roszko, Senior Vice President of Sales at Descartes. “Providing medical equipment and services direct to patients’ homes often involves significant complexity and transportation resources. Our cloud-based route planning, execution and mobile solutions are ideal for automating delivery management processes to support the service standards that customers expect while reducing fleet costs.”