FedEx Acquires Route Optimization Platform RouteSmart Technologies

Supply Chain
Written By Rick Watson

FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce, and business services.

RouteSmart Technologies is a global leader in route optimization solutions with over 40 years of expertise, providing mission-critical technology to newspaper, postal & parcel, public works, utilities & field service, and waste collection organizations worldwide.

FedEx has acquired RouteSmart Technologies, a route optimization platform, for an undisclosed amount. The company will be a standalone entity under FedEx Dataworks, a direct subsidiary of Federal Express Corporation. This acquisition will enable FedEx to drive efficiency across its operations and widen the technology solutions it can offer customers. RouteSmart Technologies will continue to provide waste collection, postal and parcel, public works, and newspaper route optimization services.

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Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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