Case Study: Sanimax Keeping Recycling Efforts On Schedule With Descartes

By The Descartes Systems Group

As a company with a strong commitment to environmental stewardship in the foodservice and agricultural communities, Sanimax collects more than a million tons of animal and food by-products, vegetable oils, and hides and skins, for recycling. Every year the company transforms these waste materials into high quality products for industries throughout North America and around the world. Its customers include feed companies, chemical manufacturers, tanneries, soap producers and pet food manufacturers. Sanimax also produces clean-burning biofuels for commercial trucking fleets and other energy uses.

Sanimax required a more efficient way to manage dynamic routing for its fleet of 27 trucks. While the company had been using automated routing capabilities, a lot of unnecessary hours were spent setting up routes. The system also did not provide insight into delivery cycles.

Sanimax implemented Descartes Routing and Planning Solution to automate weekly routing activities and improve operational efficiency for its Ontario operations. Plans are in place to expand the deployment across other regions in Canada.