Preparing for the rise and fall in demand around peak season shopping is nothing new to retailers – certainly not for pure-play ecommerce brands who are reliant on what is often a single, make-or-break, touchpoint with their consumer audience: the point of order fulfilment.
Read More »Supply chain visibility has been a hot innovation topic for more than the last five years, as tracking technology has evolved and more benefits have been identified. But getting past the market hype, what real progress has been made, and what is left to be done to give supply chain and logistics professionals comprehensive visibility to their operations – especially within retail
Read More »Why is it that some companies excel at transportation management and others don’t? Is it the choice of transportation management strategies, practices or even technologies? Or is transportation management value a self-fulfilling prophecy? Descartes recently conducted its 6th Annual Global Transportation Management Benchmark Survey on transportation management strategies, tactics and technology and how business leadership’s perception of transportation’s importance impacts both financial performance and growth. The results over time are amazingly consistent—even through the pandemic.
Read More »Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, has unveiled artificial intelligence (AI)- and machine learning (ML)-based enhancements to its Routing Mobile & Telematics suite
Read More »In an open Letter to the Editor Andrew Tavener, Head of Marketing, Descartes Systems Group has expressed concern over the extension of drivers’ hours as a way to alleviate the HGV driver shortage problem
Read More »Descartes Systems Group, the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, is supporting Meadow Foods, the leading supplier of dairy ingredients and inclusions to the food industry, with preparation for Brexit through deployment of its e-Customs solution
Read More »Retailers are pushing hard to achieve a ‘frictionless’ customer experience – but in too many cases, the emphasis is on the initial interaction with the rest of the experience woefully inadequate. What is the point of embracing seamless click-through options on Pinterest or Facebook, when the delivery experience is flawed? Or investing heavily in a frictionless in-store experience that leverages ‘pick and go’ technology to avoid queues yet offering no easy way to return goods
Read More »In a time of continued economic and political uncertainty – where threats against global trade either quickly materialise or fizzle out as part of hardline foreign policy negotiations – companies involved in international trade must now contend with an unprecedented amount of uncertainty and risk as the ‘new normal’. However, Johannes Panzer, Head of Industry Strategy for Ecommerce, Descartes Systems UK, outlines how ecommerce organisations can ride the storm of uncertainty to international retail success
Read More »Transport Operators’ compliance requirements can be hugely time consuming. Yet not only is the manual process of downloading and accessing tachograph data inefficient, companies are also unable to maximise use of this data to rapidly highlight and address key operational problems
Read More »Cross-border ecommerce provides organisations with, theoretically, a low-cost opportunity to break into new markets. Yet from the cost of air freight to the complexity of international returns plus consumer expectations for full disclosure of import tariffs at checkout, successful global ecommerce is significantly more complex than it might first appear. Johannes Panzer, Head of Industry Strategy for Ecommerce, Descartes, dives into the complexity behind making international ecommerce transparent, efficient and cost-effective
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