Descartes Transportation Manager for Shippers
Streamline your transportation operations and save costs with Descartes' TMS
Unify operations and easily manage transportation partners to deliver cost efficient, high impact results for your customers and bottom line.
Descartes Transportation Management Solution Overview
- Optimize your transportation operations, reducing costs and improved efficiency.
- Digitalize and simplify route planning, carrier selection, shipment tracking, transport consolidation and pre-billing.
- Real-time transportation visibility, allowing you to track shipments in real-time and make more informed decisions.
- Transport consolidation that result in cost saving, increased efficiency and help with emission reduction.
- Pre-billing tools help you generate invoices and process payments for shipments before they are delivered.
End-to-end transportation management made easy
Descartes offers a comprehensive, multimodal TMS for medium and high volume shippers in Europe and North America to book, track, report, automate and optimize shipments across their network.
PO & Shipment Processing
Automate, process & manage shipments by purchase order
Carrier Contracts & Routing Guides
Manage & utilize carrier contracts for ideal rates
Rating & Mode Optimization
Automate ideal carrier selection, including private fleet
Load Planning & Optimization
Effectively utilize resources to improve productivity
Visibility & Exception Management
Access insights & statuses to focus on what's important.
Dynamic Dock
Scheduling
Automate & improve visibility for dock door scheduling
Yard & Asset
Management
Assign & manage the flow of assets across facilities
Freight Audit &
Settlement
Automate & simplify the invoice reconciliation process
Reporting &
Analytics
Robust dashboards & reporting to maximize results
Any questions? We're here to answer them.
Our customers deliver results
"Where we traditionally relied on emails, phone calls and PDF documents to communicate any change in order data to multiple parties, the solution has eliminated tedious manual tasks in favor of direct and synchronized communication with the systems of our outside partners. In addition, our customers now have an easy-to-access overview of order details and shipment status.”
- ROGIER VAN HOOF, Senior Lead Business Processes at Nynas
How Nynas achieved an immediate 20% reduction in order revisions thanks to Descartes' TMS.
Read the full story here
Boost collaboration & visibility for a more connected supply chain
Timely communication is critical. Simplify and accelerate the speed of information with capabilities such as:
- Carrier Connectivity & Onboarding
- API Connectivity & EDI Messaging
- Automated Carrier Selection
- Modular Integration Network
- Digital Document Management
Reliable uptime and security across every mode.
The greatest capability is often availability, so we make sure our customers can keep their supply chains in motion with:
- Industry leading uptime
- Best-in-class security protocols
- Dedicated customer support
- Mode coverage for TL, LTL, ocean, air, intermodal, and parcel
- Support international, multi-leg, and multimodal shipments
If you are considering investing in a TMS you should focus on 4 key aspects
This whitepaper provides insight into these 4 key focus areas and how shippers and logistics service providers can benefit from more control over their supply chain.
Interested in supply chain sustainability?
Check out the Descartes 2024 Environmental Impact Guide to learn how we can help.
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