DSD Software
Take control of your Route Accounting and Direct Store Delivery operations
A complete solution that will ensure efficient automated management of your DSD (Direct Store Delivery) operations.
or speak with an expert now! 1-888-432-1550
DSD Software
Take control of your Route Accounting and Direct Store Delivery operations
A complete solution that will ensure efficient automated management of your DSD (Direct Store Delivery) operations.
or speak with an expert now!
1-888-432-1550
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Route Accounting
Automate your Direct Store Delivery (DSD) activities
Reduce operating costs
Allow your goods to travel directly to the point of sale, reducing costs and time.
Avoid the distribution center
Communicate directly with your customers to have better control over your inventory and at the same time stimulate your sales growth.
Stay flexible in your distribution
Stay flexible and responsive, continuously adjusting deliveries to meet the changing demands and needs of the retail store.
Simplify your day-to-day operations
Get data to optimize your routes and increase your sales.
When working with fast-moving goods, it’s important to synchronize production, inventory, and demand. While meeting these challenges and ensuring a high-quality product with great service is difficult on its own, you are probably also dealing with other factors like fuel costs, labor, materials, and technology.
Our solutions are designed with the user in mind, making them simple and intuitive while providing best-in-class features to address your ever-evolving needs.
Our solutions are widely used
250
CUSTOMERS
15000
ROUTES
20000
USERS
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Plans & Packages
Implemented in agility for the greatest customer satisfaction
Quick Implementation
Basic solution
Be operational in 28 days
Flexible Implementation
Professional solution
Be operational in 60 days
Customized Implementation
Business solution
Configured to suit your needs
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Connects with all types of accounting or ERP software
Our solutions offer more than traditional ERP data. Benefit from our powerful solutions and gain richer analytics on the information gathered in the field.
Quickbooks | Quickbooks online | Sage 50, 300 AccPac, X3 | Sage 50 | Sage X3 | SAP B1, ECC, S4 | ORACLE | MS Dynamics NAV, Business Central, GP | Infor | Acomba
DSD
Discover our direct store delivery and route accounting solution that runs on rugged computers or mobile phones.
An automation solution that optimizes the activities of distributors, delivery drivers, and salespeople on the road. The Companion® Suite provides you with state-of-the-art tools that allow you to increase your sales and reduce your merchandise returns to increase your productivity and increase your income.
Truck inspection and odometer capture
Loading the truck and adjusting the inventory
Management of delivery sequences
Viewing notes and messages from the office
Management of good and bad returns with reason codes
Collection of payments by credit card, cash, check
Quick printing of the final invoice including the capture of signatures, stamp, proof of delivery, DEX UCS
Entering shelf / backstore inventories and taking in-store orders
Balancing the truck inventory
Reconciliation of payments
Unloading the truck
End of day report
To learn more about DSD
Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is the preferred method of distribution for manufacturers who wish to get their products themselves to retail stores – or points of consumption. A first advantage of this choice is that they avoid the need for third-party logistics companies.
By similarly bypassing the distribution centers of affiliated retailers, manufacturers retain privileged point-of-sale access, which preserves their ability to act and control important factors beyond the distribution of their merchandise. This includes promotional support products, and market-related services, such as merchandizing, information gathering or equipment service.
On a larger scale, manufacturers frequently benefit from having their own network of regional distribution centers. Depending on the case, these centers can provide value-added services, such as the packaging of products for specific point-of-sale promotions.
Despite the strong orientation of the retail giants towards control of their supply chain through their own distribution centers, direct-to-store delivery has benefits for both the manufacturer and the retailer in the market. The case of perishable products, such as bakery and dairy products, where it is important to reduce the number of days in the supply chain.
This distribution model is also suitable when the assortment of products offered is extremely diverse, as in the case of greeting cards, for example. This allows the manufacturer’s representative to take care of the display of the products, whereas for the retailer, merchandising a wide variety of low-value products would be too time consuming.
Finally, the DSD model makes it possible to respond well to the needs of smaller retail outlets such as gas stations, convenience stores and pharmacies, which require a higher frequency of replenishment.
Drop-shipping meets the expectations of retailers who want to avoid having to manage large inventories as much as possible, with the associated costs and manpower. They also earn by leaving the merchandizing to the distributor. As for the latter, he finds his account there, by having more control over shelf presentation and marketing, with the possibility of increased sales to the benefit of both parties.
Characterize your sales volumes, based on the different types of retailers you serve, through analysis of your order history data.
Determine your strategy for the sales process. Can your delivery staff provide the time required to deal with presales that are useful for planning, or are they too busy? Will that capacity then come back to your representatives? The review will determine the deployment that best matches your resources.
Organize routes: Route planning solutions to pay for themselves by enhancing your ability not to omit any of the variables to be considered for route optimization, such as distances, hours of service, capacity trucks, speed limits, number of stops, etc.
With DSD software and the right mobile devices, including a barcode reader, your delivery people will see their operations become faster and more efficient. They will be able to produce receipts and invoices directly at the point of sale, and keep digitized proof of delivery including signature capture, preventing disputes over deliveries. GPS and remote communication from mobile devices will give you a real-time view of transactions and the location of your vehicles. The DSD solution includes on-board inventory control, protecting you against loss or theft of merchandise.
Finally, the advanced analysis features will allow you to interpret your delivery and order data, so as to obtain a precise portrait of the demand for a category of products, for a territory, for a chain, for a single store, etc.
Likewise, analyzing product returns will allow you to provide customers with the most relevant inventory recommendations, increasing profitability for each customer.
We see that product lines, like assortments, are not only expanding, but changing more quickly. There are also more promotions. Delivery times tend to shorten, and to all this is added seasonality and / or volatility of demand, which must remain a constant concern if one wishes, to maintain the greatest efficiency, to optimize the quantity and the availability of the merchandise.
Optimization is also essential to compensate for increased costs, whether they relate to labor, or to rules and restrictions, or to traffic congestion, especially in urban areas.
Attention should be focused on both streamlining vehicle loading and optimizing roads. Among the practices that result in reduced costs:
Move from static planning to dynamic planning (frequent re-examination in order to anticipate the adjustments required in the deployment of resources to respond to changes such as peaks or seasonality in demand; new customers, routes; or even to react last-minute addition or cancellation of an order).
Move from decentralized planning to centralized planning (taking into account all resources to increase adaptability).
Promote transparency and visibility, so that both the retailer and the carrier have better control over their actions in relation to the supply chain.
Optimize the use of truck space and temperature-controlled areas by streamlining loads.
The combination of the software solutions mentioned (DSD mobile solution and route optimization tool) brings a host of benefits, including the following:
- Efficiency in the field, saving up to an hour per day on each route.
- Savings on transport costs, up to 15%.
- Customers satisfied by respecting delivery deadlines.
- Employee satisfaction enhanced by planning a realistic workload.
- Reduced mileage and carbon footprint.
- In terms of material equipment: savings in resources and reduced costs when using cloud solutions.
Find out why thousands of users on the road use Companion® Route, a proven direct store delivery software (DSD)!
Bermudez Group
Bermudez Group has been using Companion Route by CIS Group in all of its operating companies for the last 8 years, as its DSD solution. That solution has worked well for the Group, bringing gains in efficiency, reinforcing its control, and giving a better overview of data and tendencies in its activities.
Group IT Executive
Monument farms Dairy
CIS Group offers innovative solutions to keep our company competitive in an ever-evolving marketplace.
Sales & distribution
Lactalis
CIS-Companion® Route DSD,CIS-Companion® Rep SFA-CRM
We were seeking an integrated solution, proven and efficient, from an industry leader.
Vice-President, Information Technology, Lactalis Canada
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