Descartes' Chris Jones provides a look into trends affecting retailers at the start of the holiday season in this click-through slideshow that examines five hot topics in home delivery.
Ideal Supply, a wholesale distributor of electrical supplies, auto parts, and industrial products, has adopted Descartes Route Planner On-demand, a comprehensive, cloud-based delivery route planning, execution, and mobile solution. The company was
Steve Banker explores the topic of air cargo competitiveness and examines the reasons behind poor adoption of eAWB by freight forwarders. Descartes is mentioned as offering an eAWB solution that makes it less onerous for forwarders to submit digital
Daniel P. Bearth, Senior Features Writer, explores the challenges that operators of corporate-owned truck fleets face to keep up with a growing number of regulations while also dealing with legal and business issues that go well beyond the
Ben Ames at DC Velocity gets the scoop on why Swiss chocolate wholesaler Barry Callebaut chose Descartes' cloud-based TMS solution to manage ocean shipments, carriers, lanes, and leadtimes across their global supply chain.
As a result of their pivotal role in the marketplace, freight fowarders and logistics service providers are uniquely positioned to view the "big picture" scenarios that address the best methods to move goods as well as data, and leading companies are
This guest post by Descartes' Eric Geerts on Transport Topics offers a look at the requirements behind the SOLAS container weight rule, current enforcement guidelines, and the best methods available to ensure compliance.
This article in DC Velocity describes a move by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency where it will accept export security and manifest messaging data from a standard adopted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the
Descartes' Chris Jones speaks with North American Builders magazine about the construction industry's drive to a paperless existence and the various areas of the construction process that could benefit from mobile technology.