Webinar - BFC + Descartes: From Route Plan to Driver Pay
The webinar by BFC Software and Descartes explores how integrating strategic route planning, driver bidding, daily routing, and load planning across time horizons enhances private fleet efficiency, driver retention, operating ratios, and service predictability by aligning routes, drivers, and loads through collaborative, technology-driven workflows.
How Integrated Planning Improves Fleet Performance
Transportation operations don’t operate in a single moment in time. Decisions made during strategic route planning, driver bidding, daily routing, and truck load planning all shape how efficiently your fleet performs.
Yet in many organizations, these planning horizons operate in silos—creating disconnects between routes, drivers, and execution at the dock. In this session, experts from Descartes and BFC Software discuss how connecting these decisions across time horizons helps distributors improve operating ratios, strengthen driver retention, and deliver more predictable service levels.
Integrated planning enables private fleets to align routes, drivers, and loads—creating a more efficient and resilient transportation operation.
Key Topics Covered
- The Importance of Integration in Fleet Management
- Strategic Route Planning Explained
- Incorporating Driver Needs into Routing
- Daily Route Planning and Execution
- Optimizing Load Planning for Efficiency
- Workflow Overview for Load Planner
- Selection Tool Integration
- Understanding Loading Constraints
- Interdepartmental Collaboration
- Role of Information in Routing
- Overview of BFC's Capabilities
- Integration of Routing and Load Planning
What You'll Learn
- Connect strategic route planning and driver bids to daily execution
- Align routes, stops, and loads with driver assignments
- Translate planned work into accurate and consistent driver pay
- Improve fleet utilization and operating ratios
- Deliver more predictable service levels
Speakers
- Cyndi Brandt — VP, Fleet Solutions - Descartes
- Chris Doiron — Solutions Consultant - Descartes
- Scott Balthaser — EVP of Transportation Solutions - BFC Software
- Ben Sampson — Head of Solutions Engineering - BFC Software
About Our Partner
Descartes is a global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security, and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use their modular solutions to route, track, and help improve the safety, performance, and compliance of delivery resources; plan, allocate, and execute shipments; rate, audit, and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community.
Within this broader ecosystem, the fleet pillar supports distributors and service organizations that operate a dedicated private fleet. It brings together planning, execution, telematics, and performance tools that digitize the last mile and make it easier to improve the productivity, safety, and sustainability of delivery and mobile operations. Descartes is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, with offices and partners around the world.
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