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Descartes Route Planner™ On-demand provides an easy and affordable way to plan, optimize, dispatch routes, track and monitor delivery fleets in real time. It optimizes both static routes and dynamic routes to maximize efficiency by taking into...
The Descartes Order Express™ shipping software is an easy-to-use and intuitive multi-carrier shipping system that is designed to automate the transportation and fulfillment process. It provides a rich user experience with a clean and highly-scalable...
The Descartes Advanced Pick, Pack and Ship™ multi-carrier shipping solution automates and optimizes the rating, routing, consolidation, manifesting, tracking and post shipment analysis for all your carriers.
As many of you know, we hold a User Group conference each year to showcase our latest technology as well as provide an opportunity for customers and partners to network. Over the last several years, we have given out our Excellence and Innovation...
What retailers want from their inbound supply chain is simple. They want the greatest product availability with the lowest inventory. Or put another way, they want the right goods at the right and shortest time possible with the correct labeling and...
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Logistics is different. If logistics is your business or a critical element to its success, you know this. You have to manage inventory, resources and documents that are all concurrently in motion with business processes that extend to the edge of...
Descartes Viatrade™ for Brokers streamlines business processes and interaction between carriers, customs brokers and government agencies. This collaborative solution automates customs security filings for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and...
Descartes ForwarderLogic™ is the a comprehensive, modular, on-demand freight operations platform for managing the planning and execution of import and export shipments for all modes of domestic and international transportation. With Descartes...
Descartes Editrade™ Customs Link is a hosted, on-demand solution that enables brokers and importers to easily and transparently collect and prepare data for Customs Automated Brokerage Interface (ABI) entries, as well as post-entry compliance. Using...
Descartes Yard Management™ is specifically designed to help operators more effectively manage the movement of trailers. This service is an add-on to Descartes Dock Appointment Scheduling™, a collaborative solution that enables shippers, carriers and...
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Descartes Visibility & Event Management™ software helps improve logistics efficiency by enabling companies to collaborate internally and externally and foresee order failures before they happen. Line item-level visibility across multiple modes of...
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Descartes Transportation Manager™ makes sure the planning and execution of freight with contract carriers is done correctly. Descartes helps logistics professionals quickly evaluate money-saving transportation options, and then execute those...
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Descartes Reservations™ is web-based delivery scheduling software for setting delivery appointments that enables customers to request delivery time windows while an optimized delivery appointment booking agent matches available resources and delivery...
Descartes Reporting Services™ is a standard reporting tool that works with any Descartes solution as well as any non-Descartes solution that is an open database-compliant (OBDC) system. Descartes Reporting Services helps companies to rapidly build...
Descartes Dock Appointment Scheduling™ is a collaborative solution that enables shippers, carriers and consignees to schedule dock door appointments. It streamlines the dock appointment process by distributing the responsibility for scheduling from...
Descartes Route Planning Solutions enable you to reduce delivery time windows, address exceptions on the road, plan routes more efficiently and respond to customer changes on the fly.
Descartes FMC DocCenter™ is a centralized online document center to manage Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) recordkeeping requirments.
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Descartes Ocean Compliance™ helps ocean carriers comply with the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) requirements, and also helps manage the rate information for cargo that moves according to the terms of a privately-negotiated service contract or Non...
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