Case Study: Signify achieves greater supply chain visibility and efficiency with Descartes Transportation Manager

Achieving supply chain efficiencies and simplifying IT with Descartes Transportation Manager™

Signify, the global leader in lighting solutions, needed a better way to manage high-volume, made-to-order shipments across Europe. Before working with Descartes and its Transportation Manager solution, deliveries often moved through 4PL partners with limited visibility, creating extra work, slower tracking, and a need to standardize EDI messaging across carriers and facilities.

Descartes implemented Transportation Manager to connect Signify’s carriers via EDI or the TMID portal, giving the company real-time visibility and control from factory to end customer. The result was a reduced need for 4PLs, 80–90% fewer manual tracking steps, lower transportation costs and movement complexity, a standardized IT landscape, and better reporting for cost allocation and proactive customer service.

Signify

Joost Burghoorn

Transport Director