• Descartes gains platform customer

    Delivery management solutions provider Descartes Systems Group announced that freight payment and transportation consulting firm Williams & Associates has chosen Descartes’ Global Logistics Network (GLN) as its preferred platform for its logistics messaging and connectivity services
    Feb. 16, 2006

    Delivery management solutions provider Descartes Systems Group announced that freight payment and transportation consulting firm Williams & Associates has chosen Descartes’ Global Logistics Network (GLN) as its preferred platform for its logistics messaging and connectivity services.

    Descartes GLN gives Williams & Associates access to the freight bills and other transportation related messages to help the company provide audit and payment services to its shipping customers.

    “The GLN gives Williams & Associates a single point of access across our broad base of trading partners and a range of connectivity options so that we can exchange electronic logistics documents with our carriers, regardless of their size or level of technological sophistication,” said A. Gil Williams, president of Williams & Associates.

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