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gCaptain shares global shipping insights from Descartes’ April report, showing U.S. container import volumes increased 0.4% from February and jumped 15.7% when compared to the same month last year, indicating exceptional growth when considering the impact of the Chinese Lunar New Year on the second half of March.

Transport Topics shares insights from Descartes’ Dan Cicerchi on how shippers, consumers and regulators are requiring greater visibility into the status of goods as they are delivered.

Global Trade Magazine shares how Wren Kitchens implemented Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling and route optimization tool to efficiently manage appointment booking for surveyor visits to customers, saving the company £2 million annually.

Supply and Demand Chain Executive covers Descartes’ acquisition of OCR, adding controlled exports data to Descartes’ extensive global trade content library for customers and partners.

WATERLOO, Ontario and ATLANTA, Georgia, April 22, 2024 -- Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that it has acquired Aerospace Software Developments (“ASD”

American Journal of Transportation covers Bahr Transportation’s use of Descartes Aljex combined with Descartes MacroPoint to streamline transportation workflows, cover more loads of temperature-sensitive, perishable goods for customers and reduce the time spent manually tracking loads by 30+%.

Descartes’ CEO Ed Ryan joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the company's latest earnings results and the state of global supply chains.

Retail Wit features how Wren Kitchens is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling, route planning and optimization solution to improve surveyor productivity, completing 56% more customer appointments and reducing its overall ‘cost per appointment’, saving the kitchen retailer £2 million annually.

ATLANTA, Georgia and LONDON, U.K., April 15, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, released findings from its study What Are Companies Doing to Survive the Supply Chain and Logistics Workforce Challenge? The study shows that 54% of the supply chain and logistics leaders surveyed are focused on automating non-value-added and repetitive tasks with technology to improve worker productivity in the face of notable workforce shortages, which underscores the many functions in supply chain and logistics that are routine and non-integrated, requiring manual intervention. To help drive productivity gains for labor workers, the top technology choices in the study were delivery route optimization (54%) and driver mobile productivity (45%) solutions. For knowledge workers, the top technology choice in the study was real-time shipment tracking (53%).

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced the availability of Descartes MacroPoint™ FraudGuard to help freight brokers, third-party logistics companies (3PLs) and shippers identify and prevent fraudulent activities related to carrier information, load tracking, and shipment status. The new capabilities are now included as part of the subscription for the Descartes MacroPoint service.