# White Paper – Freight Forwarders & Digitization: Part 3: Effective Automation

**Get the Third Installment in the Series: Effective Automation**

To accelerate operations and become a digital forwarder, freight forwarders must automate time-consuming, non-value-added activities and refocus resources on what they do best—moving freight.

This ultimate guide is the third in a series that covers how the freight forwarding market is changing and what to do about it. Filled with easy-to-understand practical takeaways, this piece focuses on opportunities for automation that can free forwarders to improve productivity and accelerate business growth.

**About the Series:**

Descartes is pleased to offer a series of pieces that covers how freight forwarders are digitizing using:

1. **Customer-Facing Enablement** – Today’s customers have high expectations. They anticipate online visibility, continuous communication, and self-service access.
   
   [Download Part 1](/content/lp/whitepaper_digitization_pt1/index.html)

2. **Collecting Data and Effective Integration** – Seamlessly passing and collecting data to and from customers and logistics partners is fundamental to effective digitization.
   
   [Download Part 2](/content/lp/whitepaper_digitization_pt2/index.html)

3. **Effective Automation** – Automating as much manual work as possible can free resources and help forwarders untangle from legacy analog-driven, labor-intensive processes.
   
   [Download Part 3](/content/lp/whitepaper_digitization_pt3#/index.html)

4. **Global Price Management (GPM)** – Learn about a new class of digital solutions for forwarders called Global Price Management that is helping forwarders differentiate their service offering and improve the bottom line.
   
   [Download Part 4](/content/lp/whitepaper_digitization_pt4/index.html)

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