If you currently deliver product to a regular group of customers or within a regular geographic area, DSI can help you more efficiently and less expensively distribute your product. With routed delivery, DSI reviews your list of customers and locations, the type of product and the time frame for delivery, and creates a distribution plan customized to your company. DSI then manages the distribution of your product from your warehouse or locations to your customers. You can accept orders from your customers into the night, if necessary, and get the product delivered first thing the next day.

Our drivers are dedicated to your routes and your product, and your customers will appreciate the convenience of getting their daily deliveries from the same person. Our drivers are also professionally dressed and trained in how to deal with your customers' specific needs. They can even return items from your customers to you.

Routed delivery is more efficient than on-demand delivery for the following reasons:

• The route is pre-planned to maximize efficiency and density of stop locations. On-demand delivery is more expensive as drivers are dispatched from wherever, generating travel time and cost both to your location and then from your location to the delivery point.
• The driver can pick up and return to you items or required paperwork.
• The driver is trained in dealing with your customers' specific needs.

And since we can load up in the middle of the night, you don't have to worry about getting your orders in and packaged by the last flight out. Additionally, you save time and money because your product doesn't have to be packaged for shipment. We determine how best to distribute your product, whether it's to linehaul it in bigger trucks to local subwarehouses and then use smaller local delivery vans, or deliver locally straight from your facilities.

Let's say you've got a warehouse full of your product, and you've got to get it to a lot of locations...daily.

You could use one of the big "on demand" courier companies, but that will cost you more as the deliveries have not been pre-planned and routed for efficiency. If you use a typical overnight service, they take their last shipments at 7 or 9 PM. Also, you face size / weight restrictions and packing headaches. If you don't have your product ready to ship before 9 PM, you have to wait an extra day to deliver your product or use a same day courier service the next morning. And, of course, you also have to package up your product for delivery before the overnight service gets it.

You could also buy a bunch of trucks, hire some drivers and deliver it yourself - but you're good at your core business, not solving transportation problems. You need reliability, speed, convenience and cost-savings, targeted to your product and your company's needs - you need routed distribution. Delivery Specialists can handle your logistics management, determining for you how to best distribute your product and giving you a proposal. All we need from you is what you need delivered, to where, and when -- and we'll handle the rest.

Delivery Specialists can take the transportation headache out of your hands. We specialize in helping companies efficiently make a higher volume of regular deliveries to the same places or geographic region. Using a distribution scheme customized to your company, we can deliver pencils and computers one day and palletized freight the next. We can pick up your product anytime, and manage the dock if you want, at close of business or in the middle of the night. In the course of their routes, our drivers can pick up items that need to come back to you and deliver them to your distribution center that day.

You get the reliability of a dedicated fleet sized to your needs, but don't have to manage it yourself. You save money and get your product delivered faster than if you used an overnight service. And since the product is hand-carried, you don't have to specially package it for shipping or mailing, and you don't have to fill out all those individual forms.

Delivery Specialists handles the delivery needs of a large pharmaceutical distribution company that has to make regular deliveries to thousands of hospitals and pharmacies throughout the Southeast. Using our customized distribution plan, each of their customers can order product as late as early evening and get delivery the next business day, or they can get delivery at the same time and on the same day or days every week.

These deliveries require special chain of custody documentation (as they are regulated by the DEA) and confirmations. Delivery Specialists established policies and procedures, set up the linehauls from the distribution center to subwarehouses, and mapped out how to most economically deliver product to each customer, whether it was a single bag or hundreds of pounds of product. The hospital or pharmacy orders only the type and quantity of product they need at that time, so they reduce their inventory costs and management headaches.

Some companies need a little more from DSI. If you are new to distribution, or don't want to deal with any part of it, we can also set up and manage your warehouse for you in the geographic area where you want to have your warehouse. We figure out how to most efficiently warehouse and distribute your product. Then all you have to do is send the addresses for your daily deliveries, and we package and distribute your product to them.

Some companies may have daily delivery needs, or may make lots of regular deliveries in a set geographic area, but not necessarily to the same customers. We can provide the required number and type of dedicated drivers and trucks that show up on schedule at your warehouse, pick up your product, and delivery it where and when you need it that day.