Descartes: From the Dot-Com Era to the AI Era
· Source: talkinglogistics.com
In short
At the Descartes Innovation Forum, CEO Ed Ryan, President and COO Scott Pagan, and EVP of Product Management Ken Wood traced the company's evolution from a struggling route-planning vendor after the dot-com bust into a profitable, diversified supply chain software leader built on more than 35 acquisitions. The centerpiece announcement was the Descartes Agent Control Plane, which lets AI agents coordinate work across applications and trading partners under customer-defined rules and human oversight — demonstrated with 28 steps across 15 applications and four companies for a single chair order. The author notes agentic AI is still early-stage, and that real-world customer case studies will be the true test in the coming year.
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Tags: agentic AI, logistics, TMS, supply chain, automation, acquisitions