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Watch this animation on YouTube . For building industry delivering customer orders has many challenges to contend with. The wide range of products have very different sizes, weights and volumes. In some situations, there’s the added difficulty that...
Adding Insight and Considerable Cost Savings with EDI Technology through Descartes B2B Messaging™ Watch this animation on YouTube. Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) is a major global tobacco producer with 17 offices worldwide and distribution to over...
Preston Barton, Vice President, North American Content Sales, Descartes Systems Group, discusses the key trends affecting the global trade industry, and how Descartes Global Trade Content solutions can help businesses demonstrate reasonable care...
Mona McFadden, Senior Solutions Consultant, Descartes Systems Group, discusses how Transportation Management Systems (TMS) have evolved over time, and how Descartes’ approach to Transportation Management implementation can rapidly deliver value.
Jos Nuijten, Vice President, Network Integration Strategy, Descartes Systems Group, discusses how businesses are reducing supply chain complexity, automating and digitizing processes across multiple modes of transport, and better connecting to...
Eric Bossdorf, Vice President, Global Sales, Descartes Systems Group, discusses the challenges that forwarders and customs brokers face in today’s marketplace, and how leading businesses are realizing gains through technology that can integrate...
Descartes Datamyne™ for Freight Forwarders is an intuitive market research and lead generation tool specifically designed for Logistics Service Providers (LSPs). View a quick animation that details how freight forwarders can extend market reach...
View a quick animation that details how Descartes Datamyne™ can help busineses can better analyze the flow of goods across borders, make better sourcing decisions, keep track of key commodities, trace supply chain relationships and more.
With global trade regulations on the rise, effective management of item classification and trade-related data can be challenging. Shippers, manufacturers, retailers and compliance professionals must maintain vast amounts of classification information...
Talking Logistics interviews Chris Jones on the history of pool distribution, its evolution for specialty retailers as a store replenishment strategy, and why it is more relevant than ever to much of the retail market and in other distribution...
Learn how SwervePoint, an expert in retail merchandising for Fortune 500 companies, has modernized its global ecommerce order fulfillment processes for enhanced customer service, reduced costs and greater operating efficiencies. Senior management at...
The electronic airway bill is a global initiative designed to help air carriers, freight forwarders and Ground Handling Agents (GHSAs) get more done in less time. Using the electronic airway bill, logistics oriented businesses can better communicate...
View a video that details how Descartes integrates with SAP GTS to help businesses such as McCormick & Company include denied, restricted and/or sanctioned party screening as a hallmark of its trade compliance program. Descartes MK DPS was the first...
In a competitive marketplace, customs brokers and freight forwarders must differentiate service offerings in order to realize success. View a video that details how A Customs Brokerage expanded into a 50,000 square foot warehouse and realized over 25...
U.S. distributor of food service equipment, Edward Don & Company, streamlines their delivery operations with Descartes’ cloud-based route planning and execution solutions, enhancing customer service and realizing substantial bottom line benefits.
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Learn how John S. James Co. is using a range of Descartes solutions to achieve a higher level of productivity and regulatory success. From its central location near the Port of Savannah, the largest single container terminal in North America, John S...
Emporium Melbourne has 225 premium retail stores in the heart of Melbourne’s central business district. They also have the largest truck lifts in Australasia, but a limited amount of dock spaces. Simon Poppleton, Loading Dock Manager, describes how...
David Sanders and Scott Hancock, with Bestrane Group, use best-of-breed technology offered by Descartes to create customized software for dock appointment management.
Mike Lombardi, Lean Operations Manager with US LBM, discusses US LBM's quest to find an automated routing and scheduling solution that is able to accommodate a highly variable environment and that required great operational discipline and...
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James Kagawa from Kintetsu World Express (KWE), a leading Global Freight Forwarder, shares the improvements their organization has seen with the implementation of Descartes' Global Trades Compliance solution.
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