In an article featured in Retail Today, Johannes Panzer, Head of Ecommerce Industry Solutions at Descartes describes four factors that impact fulfillment—and ultimately top- and bottom-line performance—as retailers navigate ongoing supply chain turbulence.
In an interview with AJOT, Chris Jones, EVP of Industry at Descartes, shares analysis on U.S. container import trends in the first quarter of 2023, how they are aligned with pre-pandemic 2019 levels, and how container traffic has been shifting from the West Coast to East and Gulf Coast ports.
Descartes has been named to Inbound Logistics’ list of Top 100 Logistics IT Providers.
Supply Chain Brain features in its Think Tank blog a recent Descartes study of 8,000 consumers in Europe and North America showing that consumers are open to home delivery options for their ecommerce purchases, including eco-friendly deliveries, which can reduce costs for retailers while improving revenue and customer loyalty. To reap the rewards, retailers need to stop treating home delivery monolithically.
Supply Chain Dive on Descartes’ expansion of IoT network for tracking and monitoring the condition of air shipments and assets through a 20% increase in the number of active readers worldwide, innovative new technologies and tripling the in-house resources used to monitor growing network operations.
Global Trade Magazine features insights from Descartes’ Chris Jones on a March surge in U.S. import volumes at West Coast ports even while imports from China continued their downward trend and port transit delays stabilize at all of the top 10 U.S. ports.
The WSJ examines the impact of a nationwide freight slowdown on diesel prices and how declining U.S. container import volumes in the first three months of the year, as reported by Descartes, mean fewer trips across the country for the transportation industry.
Multichannel Merchant highlights Fairmount Tire & Rubber’s use of Descartes’ last mile delivery solution to complete more delivery stops per route, add 2-3 delivery runs per day, and enhance the customer experience, propelling the company past time-consuming, paper-intensive manual delivery practices.
DC Velocity spotlights Fairmount Tire & Rubber’s use of Descartes’ last mile delivery solution to propel the 65-year-old family owned-and-operated company past time-consuming, paper-intensive manual delivery practices and into a high performing, data-driven, and customer-focused business.
Supply Chain Dive features Fairmount Tire & Rubber’s use of Descartes’ last mile delivery solution to complete more delivery stops per route, add 2-3 delivery runs per day, and enhance the customer experience by digitizing B2B ecommerce delivery operations serving customers in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.