Beacon vs. Descartes MacroPoint

Beacon is the AI Supply Chain Workspace. It aggregates the supply chain data already scattered across your systems, spreadsheets and documents into one unified workspace, so your team can finally understand how your supply chain actually performs. Enterprise supply chain leaders use Beacon to build resilience, reduce unnecessary spend and make confident decisions. The intelligence you need already exists inside your business. It is just fragmented.

Descartes MacroPoint is a global freight visibility platform and carrier capacity network for logistics-intensive businesses. Our real-time data​ allows you to view, analyze, predict, and communicate the status of any shipment in real time using multimodal visibility, predictive analytics, and an automated communication platform enabling “Manage by Exception” capabilities. The cloud-based solution, which is integrated with a wide range of TMS platforms, can also automate and accelerate the carrier sourcing process with AI-driven capacity matching.