Descartes MacroPoint Features

Track products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Manage multiple delivery modes such as truckload, less than truckload, rail, parcel, and ocean.

Identify the financial impact of deliveries based on costs and revenues.

Provide performance metrics such as delivery performance, on-time arrival performance, and compliance.

Use supply chain data to identify trends and their impact on performance.

Manage details about carriers such as the types of services they offer and pricing.

Provide criteria to evaluate carriers such as on-time delivery or quality of service.

Monitor carrier performance using historical data.

Define multiple types of freight such as air, road, or sea.

Deliver an online portal where customers can monitor shipments.

Create and manage personalized quotes for freight services.

Provide customers with transportation documents required for shipping.

Ability to track components across the supply chain to identify the causes of non-compliance.

Provide a search engine to find items and where they are in the supply chain.

Ability to identify and document exceptions for perishable goods and temperature-controlled environments.

Ability to track inbound products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Ability to track and search for the location of shipments by PO or SKU

Ability to use historical tracking data and machine learning in order to accurately predict ETAs

Ability to establish geofences to determine precise and accurate arrivals

Ability to request a bid from multiple carriers and directly book shipments

Ability to utilize paperless documents to automate reconciliation process including bills of lading, proofs of delivery, and weight certificates

Ability to access full coverage of required geographies

Ability to efficiently onboard new carriers during network implementation

Ability to access data enrichment, sources, & normalization to serve up actionable and clean data

Provide support for multiple languages

Provide rule-based notifications to empower real-time collaboration at key milestones and quickly resolve issues.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives