Descartes Transportation Management Suite vs. SAP Transportation Management

Well suited for private wholesale fleets making deliveries to their retail customers.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Easy for drivers to use
• Good reporting
• Good customer service

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Interaction with other programs such as Geotab.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Descartes is significantly more complex and provides much greater features than Peoplenet. Their customer service is also markedly better.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Improved overall service to customers.
• Improved accuracy of delivery to customers.
• Improved efficiency of drivers.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized