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Descartes Acquires Drivin To Expand Last‑Mile Capabilities

· Source: letsdatascience.com

In short

Descartes Systems Group has acquired Drivin, a Santiago-based last-mile delivery management platform, for approximately US $30 million in cash plus up to US $5 million in performance-based earn-out. The acquisition brings route optimization, dispatch management, real-time execution visibility, and machine-learning capabilities into Descartes' Global Logistics Network, with particular focus on Latin American delivery operations. The deal's technical value hinges on effective data integration, including schema alignment, privacy compliance, and latency resolution, to improve routing, ETA prediction, and exception-handling models.

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Tags: acquisition, last-mile, route-optimization, delivery, fleet-management, Latin-America

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