Descartes Systems Group acquired Tai Software, a California company that sells transportation management software built specifically for freight brokers, for roughly $100 million paid from cash on hand. Tai runs a broker’s whole shipment lifecycle in one workflow, from pricing a load and finding a carrier through execution, invoicing, and customer contact, and it covers truckload, LTL, drayage, and cross-border freight. Descartes said the deal feeds Tai’s transaction, carrier, and shipment data into its Global Logistics Network, where it sits alongside the carrier onboarding, compliance, and fraud prevention tools it already sells. It’s Descartes’ third acquisition since April, after Drivin for $30 million in July and fleet safety software company Idelic for $28 million.
