Company Overview

Descartes Systems Group (TSE: DSG) (NASDAQ: DSGX) is a leading provider of inter-enterprise execution software for supply chain management. The Company's products are particularly well suited to delivery-sensitive organizations with short time-to-plan horizons. For these companies, successful execution is essential to success: delivery is a component of product value and failure to perform may be catastrophic to their business. Descartes' products are functionally rich and developed using an advanced technological architecture, offering customers increased functionality, flexibility and return on investment. Descartes' product family, offers a complete portfolio of software solutions that streamline the entire order-to-delivery process.

Market Differentiation Descartes differentiates itself through its broad supply chain execution suite functionality, application of leading edge technologies, and its inter-enterprise focus on the supply chain. Most other supply chain software companies have developed their solutions from an enterprise perspective to manage operations 'within the four walls' of the company. Descartes designs solutions from an inter-enterprise perspective ) for companies who compete in a global arena, with multiple trading partners. By approaching the supply chain from this perspective, Descartes has created a complete order-to-delivery solution that companies can rely on to manage their current, and emerging supply chain requirements.

Customers & Markets Served Descartes provides solutions for delivery-sensitive companies ) organizations that view delivery as a component of product value, recognize that failure to deliver may be catastrophic to their business, and have high velocity, complex or changing delivery chains. Initially, such companies were found in the food and beverage industries. However, Descartes has found that such 'delivery-centric' companies represent an ever-broadening range of industry groups, such as courier services, newspapers, hotels, electronics, etc. To date, Descartes has implemented solutions for companies in 35 industries and has built a client base of more than 850 companies in 50 countries worldwide.

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Legal Name: The Descartes Systems Group Inc.

Number of Employees: 7

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Products

• Custom For Bottling Industry
• Global Logistics Services Network
• Supply Chain Execution Software

  Descartes'Energy product suite is particularly well-suited to improving efficiencies where demand-driven consumer, process and transportation industries are characterized by short time-to- plan horizons. These companies are forced to respond to changes in demand, often day-to-day or even minute-to-minute, along with the complexities of short product shelf life, price and promotions volatility, high order volumes, and real-time vehicle routing.

  The Energy v. 6 software realizes the company's mission to establish a new benchmark for software in the supply chain market. Energy v. 6 supports work-flow enabled processes in an object-oriented environment for building, deploying and managing distributed client/server applications in a configurable framework. It includes componentized applets comprising the application and enabling technologies, providing transparent support for all popular clients, servers, relational databases, networks, and middleware. The Energy suite is particularly effective augmenting existing or planned enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain planning solutions.

NAICS Categories

• 541510 Computer Systems Design and Related Services

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