# Carrier Connectivity Solutions

## **Simplify & Standardize Collaboration with Transportation Partners**

Quickly add new carriers and eliminate complex onboarding processes to accelerate their time-to-value.

## **Fast and flexible connectivity to all your carriers**

Through carrier connectivity, shippers and logistics service providers can reduce risk, increase efficiency, differentiate customer service and maintain the flow of goods by utilizing a reliable carrier onboarding service to manage carrier communications

### **Standardized Messaging Formats**

From booking to invoice, manage messaging with a single protocol & format

### **Flexible Connectivity Options**

Communicate across API, EDI and web portals/apps with universal standards

### **Reusable Carrier Connections**

Save time by reusing carrier connections across different modes and services

### **Real-time Status & Document Sharing**

Address latent data, improve accuracy, and easily share digital documents.

### **Single System of Record**

Unify and improve historical records by communicating from a single portal

### **Integrate with Existing Solutions**

Augment existing TMS, Visibility, ERP or WMS connectivity

### **Grow your business with the benefits of carrier connectivity:**

- Enhance in-transit visibility
- Unify transportation processes
- Reduce supply chain latency
- Reduce labor costs
- Improve data quality
- Reduce internal IT workload

Protocols supported:
- REST API / Web Services
- SOAP
- HTTPs
- AS2 / AS4
- sFTP / FTPs

## **Proven results for a more resilient supply chain**

**_"We’re pleased to be able to help carriers in C.H. Robinson’s North American freight network deliver important information on their shipments"_**  
**DAN CICERCHI**  
General Manager, Transportation Management, Descartes  
**[READ THE SUCCESS STORY](/content/resources/news/ch-robinson-descartes-macropoint/index.html)**

### **A single integration point to 200,000+ companies provides a competitive edge**

Our carrier connect solution provides access to the largest global multimodal network of carriers via Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN). We connect hundreds of thousands of companies in logistics, transportation, manufacturing, distribution, government and e-commerce in more than 160 countries.

### **Improve customer service with unified carrier messaging:**

By automating key status and message types with carriers, companies can expect to see major time savings, efficiency gains, and performance improvement across their carrier network.

Sample message types supported:
- Load Tender / Transport booking
- Load Tender / Booking Response
- Ocean Booking request and response
- Shipping Instruction
- Verified Gross Mass (VERMAS)
- Transport Status
- Transportation Invoice / Rated Bill of Lading
- Functional Acknowledgement
- Electronic proof-of-delivery (ePOD)
- PDF documents

### **Interested in sustainability & CO2 emission reduction?**

Descartes carrier connectivity provides you the data required to calculate CO2 emissions, and helps reduce the use of paper documents by enabling paperless processes.

**[Learn more](https://staging.descartes.com/solutions/transportation-management/carrier-connectivity#form)**

## **Featured Content**

**Steelcase implements Descartes MacroPoint to minimize disruption and improve service**  
[READ MORE](/content/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-real-time-freight-visibility-solution-helps-steelcase-improve-service/index.html)

**Descartes Transportation Management enables Vollrath to cost-effectively meet delivery requirements**  
[READ MORE](/content/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-transportation-management-system-enables-vollrath-to-cost-effectively-meet-delivery-requirements/index.html)

**Billerud elevates their customer experience with shipment visibility from Descartes MacroPoint**  
[READ MORE](/content/resources/knowledge-center/verso-elevates-customer-experience-logistics-tracking-descartes/index.html)

### **Looking to meet with a solution expert?**

**[Get Connected](https://staging.descartes.com/solutions/transportation-management/carrier-connectivity#form)**

Also of Interest
- [Descartes Showcases Transportation Management Technology Innovations](/content/resources/knowledge-center/descartes-showcases-transportation-management-technology-innovations/index.html)
- [Leverage the standard for carrier onboarding & fraud prevention](/content/solutions/transportation-management/carrier-onboarding-fraud-prevention/index.html)
- [Descartes Global Logistics Network™ (Descartes GLN™)](/content/solutions/descartes-global-logistics-network/index.html)