Tanguay Furniture and Purolator Courier have chosen GEOCOMtms A.Maze Routes software.

Tanguay is a large furniture retailer with 12 stores, operating a fleet of 60 trucks with over 140,000 deliveries each year. The company was looking for a system that would assist their dispatchers generate valid routes with optimal results. They were looking for an application that could address their peak season requirements of more than 1000 daily deliveries as well as their unique requirements specific to the furniture industry. They wanted to optimize their routes and efficiently sequence their stops, geocode accurately and work from high quality digital maps. The solution to their challenge was the scalable A.MAZE constrained fleet route optimization solution from GEOCOMtms.
Initially Tanguay will use the A.Maze Routes program to optimize all its delivery routes. Next the company will integrate the A.MAZE Zones module to allow us more efficient design of its territories. The company saw an 11 percent improvement during a trial run of the system.
Purolator Courier was looking for an application that could do sequencing optimization efficiently, geocode accurately and use high quality maps. Purolator also had unique requirements due to the size and complexity of their operations. Purolator was looking to optimize their service territories and reduce their operations cost.
"We reviewed and tested many solutions in an extensive validation process prior to choosing a supplier" says Bogdan Coroblea, Project Manager. "GEOCOMtms was the only solution provider that delivered the technology to scale and the functionality we required in our selection process." Bogdan continued, "we were looking for a minimum 5% improvement and obtained 7% on a recently restructured and improved area.
Purolator, Canada's largest overnight courier company, has an extremely large, complex and dynamic pick-up and delivery operation. Purolator executes 1.1 million pick-ups and deliveries per day out of 143 operating locations and three major hubs. To accomplish this 3,000 courier vehicles, 391 medium trucks, 860 highway trailers, 366 tractors, 25 dedicated chartered aircraft and 686 aircraft support equipment operate around the clock.