Product Information

Descartes P.O. Direct

Take Purchase Order Management to the Next Level

Powered by the Descartes Global Logistics NetworkTM (Descartes GLNTM), Descartes P.O. DirectTM dynamically reacts to changes in market demand by reallocating sea-freight orders on the water— essentially transforming an ocean vessel into a floating warehouse.

With Descartes P.O. Direct, changes to purchase order quantities, SKUs and/or ready-dates are made online. As a result, Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) can better focus on key milestones and manage the entire process by exception.

This comprehensive purchase order management solution also includes advanced bar-code and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) labeling technology to account for inventory and build shipments. With overseas labeling, shipments can be created as a full container load from the factory or as a delivery to a local warehouse or logistics service provider.

Users can also improve customer service and communication through a branded, customer-facing, web-based portal. Suppliers can securely log-on, access purchase orders online, report on production status and update ready dates. The end-result is improved supplier compliance to help meet ship-windows and required delivery dates.

Take your supply chain management (SCM) operations to the next level with the optional Descartes OneView™ Warehouse Management System (WMS) to inventory goods and manage ocean freight consolidations. You can also add-on packaging optimization functionality to further extend the value of Descartes P.O. Direct and optimize parcel placement.

With the Descartes P.O. Direct solution in place, users have realized up to a 40% reduction in labor costs and improved efficiency and accuracy by up to 25%.

OVERSEAS Labeling Store Name: Weight: 20.4 lbs. PO Number: 0401085679 Retail, Inc. Factory Factory Prepaid GND Transport 819 G

DESCARTES DATA-HUB Web-based visibility Consolidation

DOMESTIC DIRECT-TO-STORE

Secure, cloud-based access Retail Stores

With origin-based labeling and a secure, customer-facing web-based portal, the Descartes P.O. Direct solution allows users to improve productivity, reduce total cycle time and reduce stock-outs.

Potential Benefits Features

• Improve fulfillment decisions
• Complete support for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML) messaging
• Shave days off of total cycle time
• Automatic distribution of e-mail notifications with customizable alerts and exception triggers
• Hold less inventory
• Robust reporting tools that enable users to compare order quantity versus shipped quantity
• Easily manage your supply chain by exception
• Optional document imaging serves as a central resource for purchase order, shipment and billing documentation
• Complete web visibility to inventory and warehousing operations
• Improve profit margins and achieve an accelerated time-to-market
• Add-on packaging optimization to optimize parcel placement within the over-pack
• Optimize workflow and event tracking with exceptions reporting
• Capability for kitted/assembled SKUs
• Project/sub-project management