The Descartes Logistics Technology Platform

Logistics is different. If logistics is your business or critical to its success, you know this. You have to manage inventory, resources and documents that are all concurrently in motion with business processes that extend to the edge of your enterprise and well into your trading partners' operations. Working with trading partners is a challenge because they are numerous and your relationships with them are constantly changing. Traditional enterprise and niche applications have not adequately enabled your logistics business. However, Descartes’ cloud-based Logistics Technology Platform was designed for your logistics operations. Delivered through the fusion of The Global Logistics Network - the world's most extensive global multi-modal network and the industry's broadest array of modular interoperable web and wireless logistics management solutions - it is the technology platform that Descartes customers and their trading partners use to extend command of their logistics operations. Combined with the world's largest community of carriers in multiple modes, logistics intermediaries, government regulatory agencies, manufacturers, retailers and distributors , The Logistics Technology Platform enables customers to quickly and cost effectively connect and conduct logistics business.

The Global Logistics Network

The Global Logistics Network is the foundation on which the applications and community are built. It was designed with logistics operations in mind. It is differentiated by its management of data semantics, message delivery, transformation of data pertaining to regional or global operations and its ability to work across wired and wireless technologies. The Global Logistics Network gives you the flexibility to connect and collaborate your way. It was designed to be a network, and is not an application attempting to act as a network. You can seamlessly move or transform data through the network to your various trading partners, leverage Descartes solutions on the network or connect to your existing solutions. This inherent flexibility gives you the ability to create logistics business processes to operate or differentiate yourself from the competition.

Comprehensive Suite of Software as a Service (SaaS) Logistics Applications

With The Global Logistics Network as the connectivity orchestration foundation, Descartes has been aggressively expanding its logistics application functional footprint to now offer the industry’s widest array of modular interoperable web and wireless logistics management solutions. Whether you purchase transportation, run your own fleet, operate globally or locally, work across air, ocean and surface transportation, or are a logistics operator or organization within a manufacturer, retailer or distributor, we have the most comprehensive suite of solutions, including:

• Routing, Mobile and Telematics
• Transportation Management
• Customs & Regulatory Compliance
• Network Services
• Broker & Forwarder Enterprise Systems

Our solutions embody the deep domain expertise that resides with Descartes' people. Our logistics solutions were designed to be modular and interoperable because organizations need the flexibility to deploy them quickly within their existing portfolio of solutions. We know that logistics businesses need agile solutions that can address their challenges and opportunities now and logically expand to meet future needs.

The World’s Largest Most Connected Logistics Community

The third component of the Descartes Logistics Technology Platform is our logistics community. It is the largest multi-modal network of logistics intensive companies in the world, with over 35,000 organizations collaborating in over 160 countries. Many companies are becoming members or extending their participation in Descartes’ logistics community because we offer them one place where they can work across many modes of transportation and with regulatory agencies. The breadth and density of our logistics community allows you to rapidly extend your command of logistics operations and accelerate your time-to-value because of the many carriers and trading partners that are pre-connected to the network. We are constantly working to extend this network through our own efforts and partnerships to create even greater value for our customers. Our work with each customer is helping to benefit other customers as we bring more members to the community.