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Having recently returned from a Descartes hosted-session in Toronto on the eManifest initiative, I can confirm that the trade is keenly interested in the third-phase of Canada’s ACI (Advanced Commercial Information) program. The Q&A at the end of the...

Descartes has been busy working with the Nippon Automated Cargo and Port Consolidation System (NACCS) to prepare ocean carriers and forwarders for the upcoming Japan Advance Filing Requirement (AFR) by hosting a number of educational sessions around...

Implementation of Descartes’ Transportation Management System (TMS) shows improvements over a five year period Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes We recently had the opportunity to sit down with our customer, Bavaria, to...

Descartes’ Quarterly Employee Excellence & Innovation Award recognizes one employee each quarter for their contributions in helping make our customers and partners successful. To be eligible for nomination, the employee must have demonstrated...

Natural Selection in a New “Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide” World This piece is dedicated to Verna Miller, mother of my beloved wife of 22 years, who passed away December 28, 2012. I find myself today at the Eagle’s Nest. For those of you who don’t...

Com-mu-ni-ty (noun) a unified body of individuals - a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society. Merriam Webster Dictionary Few words better describe logistics than community. To be successful...

Tuesday through Thursday, November 13 - 15, Descartes customers and partners from around the globe attended our busiest and most productive user conference yet. Held at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, our Evolution 2012 Global User and Partner...

Descartes has been testing with the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) since Sept 2010 in preparation for the enforcement of the Canadian Highway eManifest program, the third phase of the Advance Commercial Information (ACI) initiative. As per...

Descartes Validation Service allows EDI messages to be validated both syntactically and as content. Upon receipt, EDI messages are checked against the GS1 standards, the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world, and the parameters...

Phase three of the CBSA’s Advance Commercial Information (ACI) program, called eManifest, becomes mandatory on November 1, 2012. As a resource to help importers meet the new requirements of ACI eManifest, Descartes has put together an ACI eManifest...