Customer Case · Nomadia Delivery
Sterne Optimizes 100% of Its 2,000 Daily Routes with Nomadia Delivery
Groupe Sterne: Premium Low-Carbon Logistics in Europe
Groupe Sterne is a major player in premium low-carbon logistics, operating in planned, express, urgent, urban, and bespoke transport, across Europe and internationally. With 84 branches and 2,200 employees, it offers services tailored to the critical needs of industry, healthcare, and luxury, while placing sustainability at the heart of its strategy.
Since 2023, Sterne has been officially a mission-driven company committed to the long term with demanding certifications: SBTi and Ecovadis Platinum. Route optimization is at the core of its CSR strategy. It is to accelerate this approach that, in 2023, Sterne chose Nomadia Delivery.
By virtue of its density, the Sterne network is a formidable tactical tool, but it is a tool that must be continuously evolved to integrate new clients, contractual changes, staff relocations, and depot movements. Every change must be taken into account as quickly as possible so that each of our 2,000 daily routes — which are different every day — remains optimal. The need to scale and accelerate our design processes led us in 2023 to look for a software solution to digitalize our approach.
The Challenges: Scalability, Responsiveness, and Low-Carbon Goals
- 2,000 unique daily routes, different every day: unlike a standard delivery network, Sterne's routes do not repeat. Every day is a new optimization to produce, integrating new clients, contractual changes, and depot movements.
- Responsiveness required on network changes: the integration of a new client or a contractual change must translate immediately into updated routes, with no manual recalculation delay incompatible with operational requirements.
- Scaling without loss of quality: network growth (new clients, new branches) had to rely on tools capable of scaling without extending route design lead times.
- Measurable CO₂ reduction targets: as a mission-driven company with SBTi certification, Sterne needed to quantify the environmental impact of each optimization cycle — and demonstrate tangible carbon gains to stakeholders.
Nomadia Delivery: 100% Route Optimization at Scale
Selected after rigorous benchmarking and recognized by the SITL Innovation Award 2025, Nomadia Delivery was deployed in 2023 to cover 100% of Sterne's daily routes — each unique and requiring a fresh optimization every day.
Automated generation of 2,000 daily routes, each different, taking into account all network constraints, schedules, and client requirements.
What previously took planning teams several hours is now produced in a fraction of the time, dramatically accelerating operational readiness.
New client, contractual change, depot relocation: updates are reflected instantly in routes without disrupting existing planning workflows.
The solution grows with the network — new branches, new volumes, new geographies — without any linear increase in design time or planning resources.
Each optimization cycle produces quantified carbon savings — directly exploitable for CSR reporting and SBTi trajectory tracking.
Real-time dashboards give planning and operations teams full visibility across all routes, deviations, and performance indicators.
Measurable Results: Productivity and Sustainability Combined
The Benefits Experienced by Groupe Sterne
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Route Design Time Divided by 3
The most immediate and measurable result: planning teams now produce 2,000 optimized routes in a fraction of the time previously required. A direct gain in operational efficiency and team responsiveness to network changes.
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Full Scalability of Network Design
Sterne can now integrate new clients, new branches, and contractual changes at the speed of business — without proportionally increasing planning resources or compromising route quality.
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Tangible and Quantified CO₂ Reduction
As a mission-driven company with SBTi certification, Sterne can now quantify the environmental impact of each optimization cycle. Nomadia Delivery delivers a -30% reduction in CO₂ emissions — a figure directly exploitable in CSR reporting and stakeholder communications.
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Recognized Industry Leadership
The SITL Innovation Award 2025 and inclusion in the Gartner Market Guide validate the combined approach of Sterne and Nomadia — placing them among the most advanced operators in last-mile delivery technology.
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A Competitive Differentiator for Premium Clients
The ability to demonstrate optimized routes, punctuality, and measurable carbon performance positions Sterne as the go-to partner for industry, healthcare, and luxury clients with the highest service and sustainability standards.
A Strategic Lever for Premium Logistics Operators
For a CDO or a Director of Operations in premium logistics, Nomadia Delivery is far more than a route calculation tool. It is a scalability enabler, a sustainability lever, and a competitive differentiator — all in one platform.
2,000 unique daily routes optimized in a fraction of the time — network growth without proportional planning cost.
Quantified CO₂ reduction per optimization cycle, aligned with SBTi commitments and exploitable for CSR reporting.
SITL 2025 Award Winner and Gartner-listed — a validated approach for operators seeking best-in-class last-mile performance.
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