Carrier Connectivity Solutions
Simplify & Standardize Collaboration with Transportation Partners
Quickly add new carriers and eliminate complex onboarding processes to accelerate their time-to-value.
Fast and flexible connectivity to all your carriers
Through carrier connectivity, shippers and logistics service providers can reduce risk, increase efficiency, differentiate customer service and maintain the flow of goods by utilizing a reliable carrier onboarding service to manage carrier communications
Standardized Messaging Formats
From booking to invoice, manage messaging with a single protocol & format
Flexible Connectivity Options
Communicate across API, EDI and web portals/apps with universal standards
Reusable Carrier Connections
Save time by reusing carrier connections across different modes and services
Real-time Status & Document Sharing
Address latent data, improve accuracy, and easily share digital documents.
Single System of
Record
Unify and improve historical records by communicating from a single portal
Integrate with Existing Solutions
Augment existing TMS, Visibility, ERP or WMS connectivity
Grow your business with the benefits of carrier connectivity:
- Enhance in-transit visibility
- Unify transportation processes
- Reduce supply chain latency
- Reduce labor costs
- Improve data quality
- Reduce internal IT workload
Protocols supported:
- REST API / Web Services
- SOAP
- HTTPs
- AS2 / AS4
- sFTP / FTPs
Proven results for a more resilient supply chain
"We’re pleased to be able to help carriers in C.H. Robinson’s North American freight network deliver important information on their shipments”
DAN CICERCHI
General Manager, Transportation Management, Descartes
A single integration point to 200,000+ companies provides a competitive edge
Our carrier connect solution provides access to the largest global multimodal network of carriers via Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN). We connect hundreds of thousands of companies in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, government and e-commerce in more than 160 countries.
Improve customer service with unified carrier messaging:
By automating key status and message types with carriers, companies can expect to see major time savings, efficiency gains, and performance improvement across their carrier network.
Sample message types supported:
- Load Tender / Transport booking
- Load Tender / Booking Response
- Ocean Booking request and response
- Shipping Instruction
- Verified Gross Mass (VERMAS)
- Transport Status
- Transportation Invoice / Rated Bill of Lading
- Functional Acknowledgement
- Electronic proof-of-delivery (ePOD)
- PDF documents
Interested in sustainability & CO2 emission reduction?
Descartes carrier connectivity provides you the data required to calculate CO2 emissions, and helps reduce the use of paper documents by enabling paperless processes.
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