Routing, Mobile & Telematics

ATLANTA, Georgia, and LONDON, UK, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that U.K.-based merchant Scott Parnell has improved customer experience, operational efficiency and delivery sustainability by using Descartes’ electronic proof of delivery (ePOD) software to distribute supplies and materials to construction, rail and infrastructure sectors on a national scale. Implementing Descartes’ ePOD has contributed to a significant reduction in paper usage and productivity gains equal to two full-time employees.

Commercial Carrier Journal shares key takeaways of the recent Descartes labor survey. More than half of supply chain and logistics professionals are prioritizing automation and aggressively applying technology to offset ongoing worker shortages.

Commercial Carrier Journal spotlights how Descartes MacroPoint FraudGuard proactively assesses and flags potential instances of carrier or driver fraud by evaluating billions of location and event data points to mitigate risk. Watch now!

Yahoo Finance Canada on Descartes’ recent labor shortage study, which shows that delivery route optimization and real-time shipment tracking are the top technology choices for supply chain and logistics leaders looking to improve productivity through automation.

Food Logistics features key takeaways from Descartes’ study, including that the strategies, tactics and technologies used by supply chain and logistics leaders to address labor constraints vary by financial performance, growth, management’s perceived importance of supply chain and logistics operations, and by how successful employee retention programs are.

Logistics Business shares findings from Descartes’ labor shortage study showing that, for supply chain and logistics leaders, the top tech choices to help drive productivity gains for labor workers were delivery route optimization (54%) and driver mobile productivity (45%) solutions and, for knowledge workers, real-time shipment tracking (53%).