BOC Distribution Services Selects Descartes DeliveryNet Solution To Offer Proactive Global Supply Chain Management Solutions

BOC Distribution Services Selects Descartes DeliveryNet Solution To Offer Proactive Global Supply Chain Management Solutions

Logistics Provider Creates New Business Model Around Descartes' Logistics Network Technology

The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (NASDAQ:DSGX), (TSE:DSG), a leading provider of global Internet logistics solutions, announced today that BOC Distribution Services, one of Britain's largest supply chain management companies, has selected Descartes' DeliveryNet solution to enable a new business model built on a proactive approach to global supply chain management. BOC will rapidly connect its customers and its global distribution agents to one technology-based network with Descartes' solution. This network will enable BOC to better manage end-to-end consignments and shipments with global visibility through all segments of the supply chain. The capability to set timelines and issue alerts immediately when delays are encountered will enable a proactive approach to handling problems. Also, the logistics transaction information captured will enable performance monitoring of all or each component part of the supply chain, providing the information necessary for continual improvement. BOC Distribution Services also joins Descartes' Global Logistics Network via the DeliveryNet solution.

"We are creating a new business model built around a proactive approach to managing global supply chains, which would not have been possible without Descartes' DeliveryNet technology," said Mike Flynn, Director of Development at BOC Distribution Services. "Visibility coupled with exception-based alerts and performance monitoring available with Descartes' logistics network technology will allow us to manage and improve the effectiveness of our customers' supply chains, allowing them to focus on providing the right products and service for their customers. This proactive approach is a key differentiator for BOC Distribution Services in an essentially reactive marketplace."

"Logistics service providers like BOC are finding new ways to offer differentiated, value-added services to their customers with Descartes' DeliveryNet technology," said Aivars Lode, Group President at Descartes. "BOC is strengthening its competitive advantage by redesigning its business model around the proactive logistics management capabilities available with Descartes' logistics network technology."

Descartes' DeliveryNet solution provides a single point of connection to the Global Logistics Network for major logistics service providers like BOC Distribution Services. The Global Logistics Network is a federated community of shippers, receivers, carriers, logistics service providers, e-marketplaces, vertical portals and transportation exchanges. It enables participants to leverage public community connections over a technology-based network while maintaining full control of their own private logistics community. The result is an open, vendor-neutral global e-fulfillment network that provides cost savings and revenue opportunities for businesses that need to manage physical product movement.

About BOC

BOC Distribution Services is one of Britain's largest Supply Chain Management companies, providing design and diagnostic services as well as solution delivery. It handles products as diverse as temperature-controlled and ambient foods, textiles, electronics components and heavy industrial products. With over 4000 employees and operations across Europeand in the Far East, BOC Distribution Services is owned by The BOC Group and achieved a revenue of œ254 million in 1999: www.boc.com.

About Descartes

Descartes is a leading provider of end-to-end logistics solutions that facilitate B2B e-commerce. Descartes' e-fulfillment software and exchange solutions enable companies to create high-speed, high-performance fulfillment networks called DeliveryNets. DeliveryNet solutions empower organizations to deliver reliable, responsive customer service in a profitable manner and to create innovative new products and services.

DeliveryNet solutions leverage Descartes' Internet-based Global Logistics Network, an open, worldwide network of shippers, receivers, carriers, logistics service providers, e-marketplaces, vertical portals, and transportation exchanges. The result is a global e-fulfillment information infrastructure that provides cost savings and revenue opportunities for businesses that need to manage physical product movement.

Descartes products are licensed today by more than 850 companies in 35 vertical industries in over 50 countries worldwide. For more information about Descartes, visitwww.descartes.com.

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This release contains statements that may relate to expected revenue from and transaction volume of Descartes customers, performance of Descartes' DeliveryNet solutions, market dynamics and other matters that may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results may differ from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of factors discussed in the section entitled, "Risk Factors" in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission and other securities commissions across Canada.