Descartes To Provide Sprint North Supply Increased Ability To Rapidly Connect Suppliers, Carriers And Customers

Descartes To Provide Sprint North Supply Increased Ability To Rapidly Connect Suppliers, Carriers And Customers

Sprint North Supply (www.sprintnorthsupply.com) is a leading nationwide provider of integrated solutions for voice, data, wireless and teleconferencing needs, security and alarm systems and cable television products. In addition to providing more than 36,000 products from more than 1,300 manufacturers, Sprint North Supply also provides enhanced value-added services such as Assemble, Wire and Test (AW&T), Engineer, Furnish and Install (EF&I) and Materials Management.
Sprint is a global communications company - at the forefront of integrating long-distance, local and wireless communications services, and a large carrier of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States’ first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $20 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential customers. Visitwww.sprint.com.
Descartes is a leading provider of global Internet logistics solutions that facilitate B2B e-commerce. Descartes’ logistics network technology and network-based services 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.

WATERLOO, ONTARIO, December 4, 2000 — The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (NASDAQ:DSGX), (TSE:DSG), a leading provider of global Internet logistics solutions, announced today additional information about Sprint North Supply’s selection of Descartes’ DeliveryNet technology as follow-up to the announcement of the relationship on Tuesday, November 21, 2000. Sprint North Supply, a leading distribution provider of product and value-added enhanced services to the communications and security industries, has selected Descartes’ DeliveryNet technology to create a high performance logistics network that will increase customer service levels. Sprint North Supply will use the Descartes technology to rapidly connect suppliers, carriers and customers to one technology-based network to optimally manage shipments, inventory and customer service.

Descartes’ DeliveryNet technology will help enable Sprint North Supply to accelerate the distribution of more than 36,000 products from more than 1,300 manufacturers. This enhanced capability will help Sprint North Supply reduce inventory, carrying and transportation costs throughout the logistics network. Real-time inventory and shipment visibility combined with proactive alerts when delays are expected will dramatically enhance the value-added services that Sprint North Supply offers its customers, with services including Assemble, Wire and Test (AW&T), Engineer, Furnish and Install (EF&I), and Materials Management.

“With revenues in the telecommunications industry expected to grow by more than a third over the next three years, Sprint North Supply is in a strong position to meet the increase in demand for its products and services,” said Dick Summers, Vice President/General Manager of Logistics at Sprint North Supply. “The Descartes technology will help accelerate the distribution of products and the deployment of services with new levels of proactive, customer-focused service.”

“The Descartes technology will help give Sprint North Supply suppliers, carriers and distribution services access to new customers and new revenue streams,” said Aivars Lode, Group President at Descartes. “Descartes’ DeliveryNet technology will create efficiencies in all areas of Sprint North Supply’s distribution operations – from product distribution through to field service management – benefiting customers with timely deliveries and more responsive service.”

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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 logistics community connected to Descartes’ technological infrastructure that provides cost savings and revenue opportunities for businesses that need to manage physical product movement.

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