Descartes Systems Group, a leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, is offering its Descartes MacroPoint solution on the SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings.
Descartes MacroPoint integrates with SAP Transportation Management leveraging SAP Integration Suite and/or SAP Extension Suite and delivers real-time, multi-modal supply chain visibility to manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and logistics services providers.
“Real-time visibility of shipments is critical for today’s fast paced and fluid supply chains,” said Dan Cicerchi, general manager, transportation management at Descartes. “By providing updates across domestic and international transportation modes in the supply chain, businesses that use SAP solutions can better manage their shipments and proactively address disruptions that occur in the supply chain.”
Descartes MacroPoint is a multi-modal visibility platform designed to help manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and logistics services providers gain better control of their shipments.
The platform connects road, air, and ocean carriers via telematics/electronic logging devices, transportation management systems, a mobile driver application, APIs and the Descartes Global Logistics Network, the world’s largest multi-modal messaging network.
Using Descartes MacroPoint, businesses that use SAP solutions can improve customer service, increase distribution efficiency, better collaborate with customers, suppliers and carriers, and minimize the impact of disruptions and late delivery penalties.
Descartes is a partner in the SAP PartnerEdge program. As such, it is empowered to build, market and sell software applications that supplement and build on SAP software and technology.
The SAP PartnerEdge program provides the enablement tools, benefits and support to facilitate building high-quality, disruptive applications focused on specific business needs—quickly and cost-effectively.
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