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On August 1 st, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will move to a 100 percent air freight screening requirement. The Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 is a Congressional mandate requiring 100 percent of...
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Challenge: A global courier company has a dedicated express delivery operation that moves everything from small envelopes to pallet-sized goods across its vast network. Each day thousands of trucks are dispatched from multiple locations performing...
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Peter de Groot is Product Strategy Manager at Descartes The e-excise era The European Excise Movement and Control System (EMCS) will be switched on in 2010 and mandatory for relevant movements of goods by January 2011. The overall objective of this...
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Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes Increasing cost and complexity One of the biggest line items in logistics spend is the cost of moving goods over the ocean. This is true for several reasons, not the least of which is...
Jonathan Wasserman is Senior Vice President, Global Trade Compliance at Descartes To act more quickly and efficiently in cargo security, government agencies are demanding more information earlier in the supply chain cycle. The three pillars that...
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Letter from the Editor of Making Things Move Customer Newsletter Each quarter we publish a newsletter on the things happening in and around Descartes and with our customers and partners – so this week we thought we would share our newsletter with our...
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Jim Alemany is Director, Rate Management Solutions at Descartes When navigating the rough waters of ocean freight transportation, one of the most difficult daily activities for non vessel operating common carriers (NVOCC) and freight forwarders is...
Ken Wood is Senior Vice President, Product Strategy at Descartes Transportation management solutions have been offered to the public for several decades. The first generation of TMS solutions had to be implemented on premise, was extremely complex to...
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The software as a service (SaaS) model has been widely embraced by multiple industries thanks to the numerous advantages that on-demand solutions deliver. Logistics-intensive organizations, however, were among the first to turn to SaaS to reduce...
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