Transportation Management

A couple of weeks ago SCLA (Supply Chain Leaders in Action) held its annual conference in Fort Meyers, Florida. The event brings together thought leaders from a spectrum of companies including shippers, road carriers, rail carriers, ports, 3PLs, and...

Supply chain optimization software can help identify missed opportunities Optimization technologies are powerful tools for improving supply chain performance; however, most companies leave lots of money on the table when they deploy them. Getting the...

As part of the Purchased Transportation track this past March at Evolution 2019, Descartes’ annual global user and partner conference, I moderated an interesting panel discussion comprised of industry experts and practitioners from Nolan...

Adrian Gonzalez, industry expert and host of an online video talk show and blog Talking Logistics, connects with Chris Jones, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Services at Descartes for insights from benchmarking studies Descartes conducted...

Three years ago, we started the Transportation Management Benchmark Survey because we were seeing some companies be incredibly successful in transportation management and positively impact their company’s performance while others just struggled to...

Descartes Evolution 2019, our annual global user and partner conference, has wrapped up, and it was another year highlighting customer success, insights into the past year’s innovations and upcoming planned roadmaps. There was a record number of...

Given the current capacity crunch, and the huge amounts of investment capital pouring into transportation and logistics technology, there is tremendous discussion on how technology innovation will impact the industry and, more specifically, 3PLs...

One of the biggest opportunities to dramatically improve supply chain performance occurs when traditional supply chain functions are decomposed and reinvented as integrated business processes. Few supply chain practitioners would dispute that notion...