Case Study: Alliance Imaging achieves greater route efficiency and lower costs with Descartes Route Planner

Alliance Imaging Descartes Route Planner Drives Efficiencies

Alliance Imaging, a provider of diagnostic medical imaging services across 46 states, was managing 61,000 mobile trailer deliveries annually with manually created routes that often reflected personal preference rather than driving efficiency. This lack of visibility into miles, hours, and staffing needs drove up costs and made it difficult to know how many trucks and drivers were truly required. Alliance Imaging turned to Descartes Route Planner to standardize and optimize its fleet scheduling.

With Descartes Route Planner, Alliance Imaging gained route visibility, optimized weekly schedules, and better matched labor and equipment to demand. The result was a 10% increase in asset utilization, a 10% reduction in labor costs, and 15 fewer miles traveled per delivery, helping cut fuel and maintenance expenses. Descartes also helped Alliance Imaging reduce the team creating route plans from 20 people to three, with total benefit in 2008 directly attributable to the solution reaching $1.77 million.

Alliance Imaging

John Millen

Director of Logistic Operations