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Entrepreneur shares insights from Descartes’ Johannes Panzer on key operational tipping points for ecommerce businesses in scaling growth and important strategies for success at each stage, such as simplifying automation, assessing order volume growth and diversifying sales channels effectively.
Cargo theft surged to record-breaking levels in 2024. Descartes’ Andrew Wimer shares insights with Supply Chain Brain on how advanced tech that can assess and flag potential instances of carrier and driver fraud by evaluating billions of location and event data points can help shippers, 3PLs and brokers stay one step ahead of criminals.
The construction industry is particularly vulnerable to the costly headache of freight claims and disputes. Descartes’ Cyndi Brandt speaks to Talking Logistics’ Adrian Gonzalez about practical steps building supply distributors can take around driver education and safety, load and route optimization, and customer communication to minimize the risks.
Supply Chain Digital speaks to Descartes’ Jackson Wood on how tech-enabled risk profiling that encompasses comprehensive screening criteria (e.g., geographic location, business model, industry, type of goods or services, transaction currencies, jurisdictions and ownership structure of third-party relationships) is crucial for managing the complexity, fluidity, and volume of today’s screening requirements.