Shipment Management

• Descartes Shipment Management allows transportation and logistics services providers to offer house-branded, value-added supply chain event management services to their manufacturing and retail customers.
• Provides freight forwarders’ customers line order visibility. The Descartes Global Logistics Network allows logistics services providers (LSPs) to brand their own supply chain management tool for use with their customers.
• Descartes' network team works with LSPs to connect with their customers' order management systems and manage Purchase Orders, Advanced Shipment Notifications, Delivery Orders, Acknowledgements and shipping status events..
• Details are captured within the Descartes Visibility & Event Management database, which provides access to line item details and updated status information. 
• Milestone events can be established for alerting and Carrier Scorecard reporting.
• Companies can also integrate other Descartes solutions and offer additional service offerings to their customers.

Key Benefits and Capabilities

• Includes three service offerings:  simple track and trace, supply chain reporting and event management including proactive alerts
• Provides trading partner on boarding and data quality services including multimodal normalization such as translation of carrier status codes into a normalized list
• Provides configurable reporting to help manage either inbound and/or outbound shipments
• Features performance management and configurable reporting for better visibility and control of either inbound and/or outbound shipments

Sample Customers

• DHL
• CVS