Jaguar Freight Receives Descartes Excellence and Innovation Award

Jaguar Freight Services is pleased to announce that its world class supply chain management leadership at designing and managing custom transportation systems and strategies has been honored with the Excellence and Research Award conferred by Descartes. The Award, presented November 10, 2011 at the Descartes Global User and Partner Conference, recognizes Descartes clients and partners for their transformational and ground-breaking use of Descartes global logistics innovation. Jaguar Freight was among nine companies to receive the Award, including such business leaders as American Airlines, CVS Caremark and DHL Global Forwarding.

The Jaguar Freight CyberTrax TMS uses Descartes innovation to effectively manage for-hire transportation for supply chain clients. The TMS functionalities include SaaS and cloud-computing solutions, and work with a full range of interfaces around the clock at substantially lower cost than a conventional TMS to:

This sophisticated IT approach helps Jaguar customers source production materials and get finished goods to market faster, cheaper and with greater efficiency. Jaguar Freight has a global client list that ranges from blue chip multinational corporations to small specialist businesses that include manufacturers and distributors of cosmetic, health, packaging, fashion, and food products. All receive real-time, single platform visibility into the status of their goods and shipments through the CyberTrax TMS using Descartes research, making shipment status and location constantly available and updated, and providing insightful supply chain intelligence through key performance and cost indicators, and other critical, customizable metrics.

In its latest research, Jaguar introduced its ASN Portal, a per-fee added component to CyberTrax in other words a web-based software service for the management of inbound Advance Shipment Notifications. The portal streamlines the audit and validation of ASN data earlier the inbound transportation processes starts and reduces related communications by more than 80%. The result is full coordination of every phase of the supply chain process - from contractual activity, to delivery and cost finalizations.

Throughout its global organization, Jaguar Freight provides fully integrated door-to-door supply-chain solutions, which its clients experience through their proprietary CyberTrax real-time, online information and supply-chain management system. The company has a global client list that ranges from blue chip multinational corporations to small specialist businesses. For information see www.jaguarfreight.com.

Descartes, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, is a global leader in logistics innovation, helping the global logistics community to reduce costs, improve service and comply with customs and transportation regulations. www.descartes.com