Grocery Transportation Is Different

You need a different solution to manage it

Prospero is an end-to-end transportation management system purpose built for the logistics-intensive grocery industry.

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Grocery Companies Trust Us

Prospero is used by more Grocery Retailers and Grocery Wholesalers than any other Transportation System.

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Deployment
Success Rate CAMS Software has deployed transportation systems to Grocery distribution centers for over twenty years. To date every deployment has been a success, no site we deployed to failed to go live with our software.

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Transportation Costs Reduction Route optimization improvements reduce miles driven. Operational efficiencies reduce FTE’s. Activity-based compensation models improve driver productivity & efficiency. All result in measurable transportation cost reductions.

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Fully Reliable Systems Grocery distribution never stops. Prospero’s hosted environment is accessible 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Our emergency support ensures you always have access to qualified support staff when you need it.

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Transportation System in Grocery For over twenty years, our Prospero products have been providing exceptional service to our valued clients at more distribution centers across North America than any other transportation system.

Prospero Products

Prospero is the first fully integrated Transportation Suite specifically designed and built to satisfy the unique and demanding requirements of the grocery industry. From managing product inbound to your distribution centers through to store order capture and route optimization, through dispatch and execution, all the way through to actual delivery on our fully integrated ELD, and closing the loop with driver payroll and enterprise reporting. Prospero’s suite of products handles all of your transportation planning and execution requirements seamlessly and efficiently.

Prospero Outbound is the industry’s leading routing, driver dispatch and payroll system. Used in more major grocery distribution centers than any other package.

The clever integration of several transportation functions into one package enables you to significantly lower transportation costs while providing the visibility you need to improve service levels at the same time.

Dynamic Route Optimization

Multi-site Driver Dispatch Board

Hourly & Activity Based Driver Payroll

Manage your inbound traffic the right way with Prospero Inbound. Now you can consolidate inbound orders intelligently taking into account distance, timing, capacity, temperature and equipment type.

Tender to the optimal carrier the first time leveraging cost analysis tools and carrier score carding. Carrier portals allow for easy dock scheduling and shipment updates.

Integrates with Prospero Outbound for a full end-to-end transportation solution

Optimized LTL PO consolidation

Know in advance which POs can be handled by the private fleet vs. tendered to carriers

Every ELD tracks driver hours of service and most can report on fuel consumption data for IFTA reporting. However, with Prospero Mobi, you can tap into the true potential of a trip-based ELD.

Mobi is not just another mindless data recorder. With its tight integration with Prospero Outbound, your dispatchers enjoy a simple, single application experience. Mobi provides stop, break and driver activity information in real time. You can even add or remove stops while a trip is in progress without ever leaving our Outbound TMS.

Cost effective Android based solution

FMCSA Certified ELD

Full native integration with Prospero Outbound

Prospero Outbound

Prospero Outbound is the industry’s leading routing, driver dispatch and payroll system. Used in more major grocery distribution centers than any other package.

The clever integration of several transportation functions into one package enables you to significantly lower transportation costs while providing the visibility you need to improve service levels at the same time.

Dynamic Route Optimization

Multi-site Driver Dispatch Board

Hourly & Activity Based Driver Payroll

Prospero Inbound

Manage your inbound traffic the right way with Prospero Inbound. Now you can consolidate inbound orders intelligently taking into account distance, timing, capacity, temperature and equipment type.

Tender to the optimal carrier the first time leveraging cost analysis tools and carrier score carding. Carrier portals allow for easy dock scheduling and shipment updates.

Integrates with Prospero Outbound for a full end-to-end transportation solution

Optimized LTL PO consolidation

Know in advance which POs can be handled by the private fleet vs. tendered to carriers

Prospero MOBI

Every ELD tracks driver hours of service and most can report on fuel consumption data for IFTA reporting. However, with Prospero Mobi, you can tap into the true potential of a trip-based ELD.

Mobi is not just another mindless data recorder. With its tight integration with Prospero Outbound, your dispatchers enjoy a simple, single application experience. Mobi provides stop, break and driver activity information in real time. You can even add or remove stops while a trip is in progress without ever leaving our Outbound TMS.

Cost effective Android based solution

FMCSA Certified ELD

Full native integration with Prospero Outbound

Why Prospero

Prospero is designed to and built for your industry, we understand your needs and your language without having to spend weeks or months learning your business. We understand your main objective is to lower your transportation costs while at the same time improving your service levels to your customers. Prospero is built to accomplish this seemingly impossible task of accomplishing more while spending less.

On-Site & Remote Training

Deploying new enterprise software can feel daunting, but don’t worry. Prospero will be there to:

  • Integrating with your existing software systems such as purchasing, order management, warehouse management, yard management, etc.
  • Baking your custom business rules directly into cleverly designed configurable components of the software solution (activity-based compensation, skeleton routes, driver bids, etc.)
  • Accommodating the complexity involved in multi-site distribution environments.

During these unprecedented times Prospero has deployed multiple sites while providing training remotely. Rest assured that even during a pandemic Prospero can be successfully deployed to your distribution center and your staff will be professionally trained and ready to use the system.

SaaS-based Solutions

Allows your staff to access your transportation systems wherever they have internet access. When Covid -19 hit and many employees had to work remotely, our clients were able to continue their operations without disruption. In fact, as grocery demand spiked early in the pandemic, many of our clients saw 40-50% increases in shipped volume without adding additional transportation clerical staff.

Customer Success

We are proud of Prospero’s 100% deployment success rate. We have a team of service and support professionals that are deep in grocery transportation management expertise and are dedicated to making the deployment and operations of a grocery TMS system as it should be -easy and effective.

Around-The-Clock Support

Prospero stands behind its products, and will have a dedicated developer answer any support calls within regular business hours. We also offer 24-hour emergency support for any significant outages. More importantly, we will assist you with ongoing maintenance of your solution.

Configured to Your Needs

Beyond the box, we ensure Prospero works for you by:

  • Integrating with your existing software systems such as purchasing, order management, warehouse management, yard management, etc.
  • Baking your custom business rules directly into cleverly designed configurable components of the software solution (activity-based compensation, skeleton routes, driver bids, etc.)
  • Accommodating the complexity involved in multi-site distribution environments.
On-Site & Remote Training

On-Site & Remote Training

Deploying new enterprise software can feel daunting, but don’t worry. Prospero will be there to:

  • Integrating with your existing software systems such as purchasing, order management, warehouse management, yard management, etc.
  • Baking your custom business rules directly into cleverly designed configurable components of the software solution (activity-based compensation, skeleton routes, driver bids, etc.)
  • Accommodating the complexity involved in multi-site distribution environments.

During these unprecedented times Prospero has deployed multiple sites while providing training remotely. Rest assured that even during a pandemic Prospero can be successfully deployed to your distribution center and your staff will be professionally trained and ready to use the system.

SaaS-based Solutions

SaaS-based Solutions

Allows your staff to access your transportation systems wherever they have internet access. When Covid -19 hit and many employees had to work remotely, our clients were able to continue their operations without disruption. In fact, as grocery demand spiked early in the pandemic, many of our clients saw 40-50% increases in shipped volume without adding additional transportation clerical staff.

Customer Success

Customer Success

We are proud of Prospero’s 100% deployment success rate. We have a team of service and support professionals that are deep in grocery transportation management expertise and are dedicated to making the deployment and operations of a grocery TMS system as it should be -easy and effective.

Around-The-Clock Support

Around-The-Clock Support

Prospero stands behind its products, and will have a dedicated developer answer any support calls within regular business hours. We also offer 24-hour emergency support for any significant outages. More importantly, we will assist you with ongoing maintenance of your solution.

Configured to Your Needs

Configured to Your Needs

Beyond the box, we ensure Prospero works for you by:

  • Integrating with your existing software systems such as purchasing, order management, warehouse management, yard management, etc.
  • Baking your custom business rules directly into cleverly designed configurable components of the software solution (activity-based compensation, skeleton routes, driver bids, etc.)
  • Accommodating the complexity involved in multi-site distribution environments.

What Our Clients Are Saying

CAMS is designed to meet the many unique challenges that the food retail industry demands of their transportation networks. The flexibility of the CAMS solution allowed our Planning and Transportation Operations groups to meet the needs of our business. This allowed us to put all of our Transportation Planning functions under one TMS. That benefit was no more apparent than in 2020 when our supply chain was met with unprecedented disruption due to Covid-19.

Mike McKeown

Supply Chain Systems Area Manager, Wegmans Food Markets

CAMS has been a valued partner in our supply chain execution for more than 15 years. Their team has been a valuable resource for helping us execute on our transportation KPI’s and ensuring consistent efficient delivery operations to our stores. Our conversion to Prospero has been very positive and we continue to receive the necessary support and training to allow us to service our customers seamlessly.

Dave Schmitz

Director of Transportation, Price Chopper Supermarkets

We initially selected CAMS Software to centralize our dispatch operations across ten distribution centers. It was the smoothest rollout we've ever had and provided a strong ROI. We have since centralized our route optimization across all sites with Prospero Outbound.

Richard Kearns

EVP, Distribution Associated Wholesale Grocers

I would like to thank you and your fine organization for the support you have provided from start-up to interfacing with various other systems. No problem was ever too small or too difficult. I have never received better support from any other partnered vendor. Your response time has been tremendous. I realize we do things differently than any of your other users, but you have always made things work the way we do. Thank you so much!

Don Wertz

Director of Transportation, Associated Wholesalers Inc.
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We Know Grocery

CAMS Software provides innovative transportation solutions designed specifically to meet the demanding requirements of large-scale grocery distribution.

We have been providing these solutions since 1999 and have deployed to over 150 major grocery distribution centers all across North America.

Grocery transportation typically involves short radius distribution of temperature controlled product to and from the same locations over and over. Turnaround from order cut-off to delivery is much less than 24 hours and you're expected to hit tight delivery windows. There is no time to tender these loads out like a typical TMS would so they're delivered with private or dedicated fleets.

Dispatching with these fleets often involve complying with custom and complex collective bargaining agreements, seniority rules, and engineered labor standards. Our transportation solutions are specifically designed to handle the associated challenges of working with private and dedicated fleet operations.

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Our Core Values

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01 | Protect the Client

Our Client’s long-term best interests are the beacon of our decision making.

02 | Be Prepared

We are proactive professionals who anticipate and plan ahead.

We respect the time of our clients, our peers and ourselves.

We don’t just show up, we engage, participate and contribute.

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03 | Be Accountable

We take responsibility for the quality of our work and our decisions.

We keep our commitments to our peers and our clients.

We actively contribute to our own success and that of our team, projects and our organization.

We relentlessly pursue excellence in everything we do.

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The Prospero Philosophy

Prospero is named after the main character from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. In this, the last of Shakespeare’s major works, in the final soliloquy and epilogue, he makes the point that his life’s work is only given meaning through the enjoyment produced in his patrons.

“As you from crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free.”

Only from the applause can Prospero avoid failure and be set free. In the same manner, CAMS Software is tied to its clients by the threads of their successes.

If we take on your business, we only succeed when you do; your prospering is our prospering.

 

Who We Are

We believe that the prosperous have the privilege of giving back.

We have several charity fundraising events at CAMS Software and we are proud of participating in events such as the Vancouver Sun Run or rolling up our sleeves to pitch in a few hours at the local Food Bank.

During the summer of covid, we held a charity golf tournament to support one of our favorite charities, the Canucks Autism Network.

We also donate to the Cancer Society of BC, BC Children’s Hospital, The Children’s Hearing & Speech Centre and some amateur youth sports teams.

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