Descartes Logistics Technology Platform vs. SAP Transportation Management

Descartes Logistics Technology Platform has a control tower view which we have used a lot. It permits us to check on [the] real-time status of every truck, also has the features and option to communicate with the trucks' ELD, which gives us the most liable information about his current location and status.

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SAP Transportation Management is great when you are traveling for the first time as a corporate employee. It allows you to make a travel itinerary that is cohesive and includes flights, hotels, and car rentals in one easy to access document or email.

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• An easy and free of hassle mobile application
• Precise location of a truck in a map view
• Identify possible delays to stops

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• Capturing Logs and objects of each change/ transport
• Automatic movement of changes via the SAP Transportation Management queue
• Setting up workflow to automate the client specific and SID specific movements
• Express the configuration graphically very well
• Ease of changing configuration of SAP Transportation Management and moving it through the landscape.

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• Intelligence, it gets stuck in some areas of the country
• Integration with [other] apps, we would appreciate a collaboration with [other] tracking apps that can share the same information if they are being installed [on] the same device
• A better and clean dashboard, its face needs a renewal, a fresh look, adapted to the current trends

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• The icons with SAP Transportation Management can be easy to mix up and can cause issue if the wrong buttons are pressed

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I think its a great tool that people at all different levels in the business can use. It makes it easy to consolidate and search for travel

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As any SAP products is not very much user oriented, but its a transactional system. But for large volume operations, it should be more user friendly and easier and more readable interface. SAP in general needs to improve in that area. What is good, you can have a full e2e process overview and traceability of the order - which is one of the reasons we chose to use the product.

Incentivized

It is a powered tool that can be used by any of the current logistics (and why not?, non-logistics companies), that need a reliable, accurate, and well-based amount of information of the fleet, with ease. Using the [latest] technologies, integrating a wide view of transportation, inventory, [and] custom status on a single but not simple platform.

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It allows to integrate an e2e flow from business process to finance and people management, which in logistic business are the resources for logistic execution. Analytics are obviously allows us to analyze the metrics and make data driven decisions.

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• Positive, we can do our things faster than ever with using the information shown in the platform, avoiding unnecessary calls and interactions
• Increasing the liability of the gathered information about trucks' actual/real location
• A solution to improving our overall shipment visibility

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• Enables movement of code changes through the landscape seamlessly
• We have a busy shop and it doesn't matter if a project with 1000+ changes or 100 changes, the system handles it very well. The business is happy that we can move all these changes at one go
• One feature would be to identify if the changes are to some core objects in the system then take an automatic backup or at least give that option.

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