Product Information

Descartes

™

Reporting Services

Making Knowledge Management Easier

Businesses today face demanding delivery requirements, regardless of whether they are manufacturing, distributing or delivering goods. Fast, accurate reporting is a must-have in order to remain nimble to respond to changing business conditions and operate effectively.

Metrics-focused companies can rely on Descartes to help them access the data they need to make informed decisions. Descartes Reporting Services is a standard reporting tool that works with any Descartes solution built on the Logistics Network Operating System™ (LNOS) framework, as well as any non-Descartes solution that is an open database-compliant (OBDC) system. With its robust graphical interface that allows easy report generation by dragging and dropping selected fields, users can create sophisticated reports in minutes. Additionally, reports are easily modifiable to reflect business goals as they change.

Descartes Reporting Services can harness the power of the Descartes Global Logistics Network™ (GLN), which enables the world’s leading transportation providers to connect to their trading partners and seamlessly and reliably exchange information to drive delivery performance and high levels of customer satisfaction.

Standardize Reporting Across All Descartes Solutions

Descartes Reporting Services helps companies to rapidly build and deploy flexible logistics-oriented reporting within a department, across the enterprise and/or to trading partners.

Summary
With better information, we can move our product through the pipeline rather than investing our resources in safety inventory.
Kevin F. Smith,
Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics, CVS Pharmacy

Benefits

Descartes Reporting Services Helps:

• Protect data and make business decisions faster and more accurately
• Identify trends and easily explore data
• Enable a centralized location for access to departmental reports and allows information to be accessed quickly without costly downloads and custom configurations

Features

Easy-to-use Features. Includes simple and easy data definition for reporting purposes; user- and role-based access control; simple drag-and-drop report creation; point-and-click access to capabilities such as “sort by, group by, and summarization;” and formatting options including color, bold and decimal capabilities.

Chart Wizard. Creates quick and easy bar charts or pie charts and allows for a threshold value on bar charts for comparison.

Hierarchical Organization. Provides the ability to organize data using hierarchies such as product lines, locations and regions, or organizations and divisions.

Flexible Date Selection. Includes flexible date selection within a period, a fixed date or a relative range of days. Includes relative dates such as current day, week, quarter, and year, as well as previous and next day, week, quarter, and year.

Simple Summarization Choices. Includes sum, count, max, min, average and unique count.

Expansive Data Source Options. Uses data from any Descartes LNOS-based product or external open database-compliant (OBDC) system.