Descartes in the News

The adoption of supply chain management (SCM) software grew significantly in 2017, according to research firm Gartner, and the growth is reflected in the performance of the Top 20 vendors in the space. Gartner’s list follows its report that total worldwide market revenue grew 13.9% to reach a total of $12.2 billion last year.

To remain competitive in this changing environment, freight brokers and third-party logistics firms will need to adapt or risk being left in the dust, technology experts and logistics leaders said here at the Transportation Intermediaries Association’s inaugural 3PL Technovations conference, held Nov. 6-7.

Companies like Descartes offer software solutions for regulations like ACAS and the ELD-mandate. Scott Sangster, vice president of Descartes’ global logistics network, weighed in on the biggest hurdles stakeholders have faced on the ACAS side. “Really, most of the challenges have been around the cooperation of the collection of data,” he said.

The construction workforce, estimated at roughly 33,000 before Hurricane Maria, will need to double to keep up with demand to rebuild roads, houses and other infrastructure damaged in last year’s storm season, said Emilio Colon-Zavala, president of the Puerto Rico Builders Association.

...Merchants Foodservice, the 12th-largest foodservice distributor in the U.S., is streamlining the delivery of wholesale food, beverages and restaurant kitchen supplies to 12 southeastern states using the Descartes Perform™ for Food mobile solution.  

ShipRush is an affordable software solution designed to calculate shipping rates quickly and accurately. The software fits the needs of many different types of sellers as it comes with support for individual parcel shipping, freight shipping, and LTL shipping.

The cargo carrier has also signed an agreement with leading logistics solutions-provider Descartes, and integrated its ‘Descartes vMail’ solution with its in-house cargo management information system, cargo reservations, operations, accounting and management information systems (CROAMIS) for electronic data interchange messaging.

WATERLOO, Ontario, Oct. 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Merchants Foodservice, the 12th-largest foodservice distributor in the U.S., is streamlining the delivery of wholesale food, beverages and restaurant kitchen supplies to 12 southeastern states using the Descartes Perform™ for Food mobile solution.  

Home Depot joins Target, Walmart and, of course, Amazon in stepping up same-day and next-day deliveries. Mark Holifield, the retailer's executive vice president of supply chain and product development, in a statement called the new option "just the beginning" and "a significant milestone in the way we're serving customers."

With the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate now having been in effect for the better part of a year, there have since been various impacts from the mandate on shippers supply chain and logistics strategies, as well as having an effect on emerging time constraints on shipping lanes rather than a loss of truck drivers.

Logistics Management announces 2018’s Top 35 Ocean Carriers. The continued rise in fuel prices and chartering rates had a negative impact on the earnings of the top tier carriers for most of 2018 but, as new alliances mature, industry experts are forecasting a modest improvement by next year. 

In today’s world of ocean shipping, many carriers have looked to technology to improve day-to-day operations—going beyond legacy systems and manual processes and moving towards more modern, effective and flexible technology solutions.