Descartes in the News


Follow us on LinkedIn

Explore coverage of company and technology news

Supply Chain Brain shares insights from Descartes’ Filipe Santos about the increasing role of agentic AI in supply chain and logistics. In the face of growing industry and economic volatility, the rise of agentic AI offers a valuable opportunity to shift from reactive problem-solving to proactive autonomous action at scale.
Cargo theft is escalating across North America. Freight Waves shares insights from Descartes’ Danielle Spinelli into how bad actors are using AI, social engineering, and marketplace reselling to fuel a digitally-enabled crime wave in the freight industry.
Prosper Pathway speaks to Descartes’ Mikel Richardson about the state of the North American ecommerce industry and how technology solutions for shipping, inventory, and order and warehouse management are solving sellers’ real-world problems, including marketplace compliance, under/overselling, and curtailing fulfillment costs.
Assessing 2025’s biggest storylines and what’s coming in 2026, Descartes’ Jackson Wood shares that risk and compliance wasn’t defined by a single enforcement action or a headline-grabbing policy change but by companies’ realization that the underlying structure of risk itself had changed—and that compliance programs built for yesterday’s linear supply chains simply will not get the job done in an era of more diffuse and broadly-networked risk.
Inside Logistics discusses the findings from the 2025 Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Study. Global instability, cost and compliance pressures, and tariff costs are pressing challenges. Rather than proactively driving growth, many forwarders and brokers—hampered by a lack of capital—are cutting costs (31%) and focusing on process automation and efficiency (52%).
Global Trade Magazine shares insights from Descartes’ Johanne Panzer into how retailers and distributors can optimize ecommerce warehouse fulfillment operations this peak season in the face of unpredictable trade policy, persistent labor shortages, and rising costs.
Supply Chain Xchange speaks to Descartes’ Glenn Palanacki about the findings of the 2025 Forwarder/Broker Benchmark Study. As pricing pressures and global instability rise, freight forwarders and customs brokers are looking to emerging technology, such as AI, for help with compliance and back-office operations.