Ed Ryan
Analyst · William Blair. Please go ahead. Your line is now open
Well, I don’t know if we have really specific metrics about it. We have customers with up to 30, I think one of the biggest out, 32 different solutions that they use of ours. It depends on the area. We are talking with the freight boarding space, guys sit in the middle, intermediaries, freight brokers. They tend to have more of our products, because they have a lot of products that work for them. We are talking about the carriers and the outside of those transactions, they tend to have five, six, seven products versus 10, 15 products because there’s only so many things they can do on our network. They’re mostly there to communicate with the trading partners. So, we have some value added services for them but maybe not as much as we have for those transportation intermediaries. And then, big retailers and manufacturers similarly, good one has five to 10, I think we have a couple with something like 12 or 13 different solution sets because again they don’t do everything in logistic. So, unlike an intermediary, they might not quite have as many as a DHL or a Panalpina or a Kuehne & Nagel who can use a lot of the services that we offer. Some are the ones that often cross-sell, most of them are participants on our network. They’ll be buying on top of that our transportation management solutions, our freight forwarding packages. A lot of people also buy then our customs and tariff duty databases, access to our denied party screen databases, access to our Datamyne solution that has built up [ph] from around the world that you can access and do competitive searches on. Pretty recent one now was MacroPoint where we do business with a lot of retailers and manufacturers that are relatively new customer base for MacroPoint and as Descartes does business with a lot of those guys already. We’re running around it and now saying, hey, here is this MacroPoint solution, not only can you get that business back on this truck, but you can actually track them mile-by-mile to the final destination and get the dynamic ETA, while you’re doing that, that’s often very attractive to those customers. And it’s early days for that. We’ve only owned MacroPoint 6 or 7 months now. But we’re getting a lot of traction within our existing customer base on it.