Food and Beverage
Food and beverage distributors are facing unprecedented times. With the dramatic shifts in demand, rethinking strategies, tactics and technologies is becoming critical to not only survive but to thrive.
Traditional distribution models featuring master routes and territories are being challenged as distributors look to improve profitability and find new ways to compete.
Our solutions can help transform your distribution operations.
Key Features
- Dynamically generated customer selected time windows
- Continuous optimisation enabled by RPA
- Routing configurations determined by AI and ML
- Delivery driver apps with real time tracking
- Customer notifications
Our Solutions and Capabilities
Daily and Dynamic Routing
Sophisticated planning capabilities that enable a broad range of industries to create optimal daily routing solutions. Automate route planning across the distribution network for more effective and efficient performance, and for greater planner productivity.
Same Day Routing
Offer time-definite same day delivery through appointment bookings integrated with real-time GPS-based vehicle tracking.
Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD)
Purpose built for food and beverage distributors’ complex business rules, our ePOD solutions streamline receipt and reconciliation at delivery to minimise disputes, improve customer satisfaction and shorten the cash collection process.
Customer Selected Time Windows
Allow customers to select from dynamically generated delivery time windows that maximise the customer experience while minimising delivery costs.
Notifications
Engage with customers from purchase through the delivery cycle using automated notifications to help reduce failures and improve the customer experience.
Integration Development
Speed up the implementation of solutions by drawing on our team’s experience, integration capabilities, and realise the benefits faster.
Hosting
Fully managed hosting and management solutions remove operational complexity from your business, and provide delivery certainty.
Delivery and Appointment Scheduling
Solve the problems of congestion and visibility - with intelligent scheduling and execution of activities to match your inbound or outbound requirements and capabilities of your operations.
Customer Portals
Enhanced customer experiences with customised portals that capture orders, present time windows and track deliveries.
Logistics Control Towers
Control towers providing you with visibility and performance management across the breadth of your operations.
Our Technologies
Bestrane Customer Portals (BCP)
Bestrane customer portals can be designed as stand alone solutions or integrated into your existing customer facing portals. Capture customer orders via portals that integrate directly with route planning solutions, or use tracking solutions to provide customers with direct visibility of their orders.
Bestrane Order Processing (BOP)
Order processing services receive orders from your systems and apply rules and business logic to enhance the data, before presenting the orders to your route planning and optimisation solution. Bestrane Order Processing Service reduces the effort required to integrate these orders into route planning solutions, and enables more advanced optimisation capabilities to be applied.
Featured Insights
TasWater and Bestrane: Streamlining Tasmania’s Water Management
Discover how TasWater, in partnership with Bestrane, optimised water management across Tasmania with route efficiency improvements, reduced travel times, and enhanced safety.
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BC Sands: Improving driver safety and rewarding good behaviour
Learn how BC Sands has significantly improved driver safety, reduced harsh driving events by 45%, and lowered maintenance costs by partnering with Bestrane.
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