WATERLOO, Ontario, Nov. 13, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced that Charlotte, North Carolina-based Chambers Transportation Services Inc. has selected Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN) to manage its day-to-day load tendering and related status reporting for loads it moves for one of its largest customers.
One of the services Descartes' GLN provides is an email-based solution that enables transportation providers and manufacturers without electronic data interchange (EDI), or similar technology infrastructure, to easily exchange messages. The GLN enables the world's leading transportation providers to reliably connect with their trading partners.
"As a regional/long-haul truckload carrier, our required reporting about the status of the loads we were moving was often done manually. We needed an electronic solution for managing shipments that was easy to deploy," said Ryan Chambers, President of Chambers Transportation Services. "With the Descartes GLN, we have a cost-effective and efficient way to electronically process load tenders and related status data to not only meet this specific customer's requirements, but also to alleviate many of the manual processes associated with receiving and responding to messages."
Descartes enables Chambers Transportation to transfer the entire load reporting process off of the dispatcher's desk and onto desktop computers. Chambers Transportation dispatchers can now use their email applications to view the tendered loads, accept or reject them, and then provide the 10 status updates that this specific customer, a major global consumer goods company focused in household and personal care products, requires on each load. Invoices can also be sent via email once the load is complete.
"Companies like Chambers can now bypass expensive investments in EDI and communications infrastructure and still comply with their customer's requirements by simply deploying the Descartes GLN," said Eric Bossdorf, Vice President, GLN at Descartes. "This is an excellent example of how Descartes solutions are flexible enough to help trucking operations of all sizes compete in today's market. With the success of the Chambers' implementation, their customers are now looking at Descartes as a cost-effective means to help its other carriers meet their load tendering requirements."
About Chambers Transportation Services, Inc.
Chambers Transportation is a regional/longhaul truckload carrier based in Charlotte, North Carolina that provides premium, dedicated, long haul truckload services for various companies throughout the Southeast. Chambers has been in the transportation business for 15 years, and their total commitment to customer service is evident in the professionalism of its employees both on and off the road.
About Descartes
Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions, is delivering results across the globe today for organizations that operate logistics-intensive businesses. Descartes' logistics management solutions combine a multi-modal network, the Descartes Global Logistics Network, with component-based 'nano' sized applications to provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services to help manage third party carriers and private fleet management services for organizations of all sizes. These solutions and services help Descartes' customers reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven and improve pick up and delivery reliability. Our hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value. Descartes customers include an estimated 1,600 ground carriers and more than 90 airlines, 30 ocean carriers, 900 freight forwarders and third-party providers of logistics services, and hundreds of manufacturers, retailers, distributors, private fleet owners and regulatory agencies. The company has almost 300 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Washington DC, Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, Singapore and Melbourne. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.
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