IDS Reduces Costs and Elevates Customer Experience with Descartes’ Transportation Management Solution

AMERSFOORT, Netherlands and ATLANTA, Dec. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that IDS, a leading European non-asset transport management specialist and fourth-party logistics provider (4PL), is using Descartes’ cloud-based transportation management system (TMS) to enhance the customer experience for shippers and carriers by organizing and optimizing transportation, resulting in efficiencies and cost savings through end-to-end supply chain management.

“Our mission is to simplify the organization and optimization of transport across Europe for our customers and to provide them with the freight management insights they need to improve operational and financial performance,” said Leon de Koning, Managing Director at IDS. “The Descartes solution helps us reduce costs across all modes by automatically evaluating carriers, consolidating shipments and easily calculating the cost and time savings we can offer a customer.”

IDS also uses the Descartes solution to generate consolidated pre-bills for shipments. Prepared in accordance with contractual tariffs and agreed-upon surcharges, pre-bills serve as the foundational document for carriers to issue invoices. For all shipments—full truckload (FTL), less-than-truckload (LTL), groupage, palletized and dangerous goods—carrier invoices are compared to the corresponding pre-bill or validated against the corresponding freight data invoice record to ensure accuracy, consistency and streamlined workflows for all stakeholders.

Descartes’ cloud-based TMS helps companies of all sizes automate and synchronize transportation processes and reduce transportation-related costs. By eliminating manual steps to communicate with multiple systems and transportation partners, logistics service providers, like IDS, and shippers and reduce the risk of inaccurate data, increase productivity and accelerate the movement of goods. To help businesses comply with European Union (EU) emissions regulations for road transport, the Descartes TMS collects and analyzes data—mode of transportation, load weight, distance traveled, fuel consumption—to provide an accurate estimate of an organization’s carbon emissions from transportation activities.

“With a dynamic relationship spanning 20+ years, we’re pleased that the ongoing innovation and collaboration with IDS continues to help them optimize the movement of goods while adapting to meet the evolving needs of their customers,” said Elmer Spruijt, VP, Global Sales at Descartes. “Descartes’ global transportation technologies help logistics-focused businesses around the world boost service level performance, unlock productivity gains, meet compliance demands, and drive bottom-line efficiency.”

Learn more about Descartes’ .

About IDS

Leveraging 33 years of experience, Netherlands-based IDS provides smart 4PL logistics control tower solutions and freight forwarding services that can handle any complexity in any country in, from, and to Europe. IDS offers transport management services, consulting services, and supply chain collaboration for shippers, operating as the connecting link between shippers and their partners in the supply chain. For more information, visit .

About Descartes

Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, security and sustainability of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, track and help improve the safety, performance and compliance of delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at , and connect with us on  and .

Global Media Contact

Cara Strohack

Tel: +1(800) 419-8495 ext. 202025

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws (“forward-looking statements”) that relate to Descartes’ transportation management system solution offerings and potential benefits derived therefrom; and other matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from the anticipated results, performance or achievements or developments expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the factors and assumptions discussed in the section entitled, “Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results” in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada including Descartes’ most recently filed management’s discussion and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case, the trading price of our common shares could decline, perhaps materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Forward-looking statements are provided for the purposes of providing information about management’s current expectations and plans relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes. We do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based, except as required by law.