Supply Chain Brain shares insights from Descartes’ Chris Jones on 5 key trends will shape the logistics and supply chain landscape in 2024, including tackling the labor shortage.
Logistics Management shares insights from Descartes’ latest global shipping report, showing March was a strong month for U.S. container import volumes despite declining import volumes from China. Port transit delays also showed continued improvement across nearly all the top ports, even given disruptions associated with the Panama drought and the Middle East conflict.
American Journal of Transportation on Descartes’ acquisition of OCR, which specializes in solutions and content for export compliance and controlled commodities, helping customers streamline denied party screening, license procurement/management, and product classification.
SAP Insider features key findings from Descartes’ recent study on the state of workforce shortages in supply chain and logistics, including that 76% of leaders surveyed reported experiencing notable workforce shortages in their operations.
Descartes’ CEO Ed Ryan joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the company's acquisition of OCR Services Inc. for US$90 million, making it Descartes' 30th acquisition since 2015.
American Journal of Transportation on how Wren Kitchens is using Descartes’ dynamic appointment scheduling and route optimization solution to help surveyors complete 56% more visits to customers and save the company £2 million annually.
Food Logistics covers Descartes’ acquisition of OCR, adding solutions and content for export compliance and controlled commodities to Descartes’ extensive global trade content library for customers and partners.
DC Velocity on Bahr Transportation’s use of Descartes Aljex combined with Descartes MacroPoint to cover more customer freight, book loads faster and reduce time spent tracking loads by 30+%.
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.