TLC Selects Descartes DeliveryNet Solution To Provide Total Optimized Logistics Services Top Ten Logistics Service Provider Joins Global Logistics Network Via Descartes

TLC Selects Descartes DeliveryNet Solution To Provide Total Optimized Logistics Services

Top Ten Logistics Service Provider Joins Global Logistics Network Via Descartes

WATERLOO, ONTARIO, September 25, 2000 - The Descartes Systems Group Inc., (NASDAQ:DSGX), (TSE:DSG), a leading provider of global Internet logistics solutions, announced today that Total Logistic Control (TLC), a full service third party logistics provider in the US, has selected Descartes' DeliveryNet solution to monitor, manage and optimize their customers' logistics networks and globally distributed processes. TLC has been ranked three years in a row as one of the top ten third party logistics providers by Inbound Logistics magazine, and the top provider in temperature controlled logistics. TLC also joins Descartes' Global Logistics Network via the DeliveryNet solution.

"Descartes' DeliveryNet technology will enable us to create high-performance logistics networks for our customers, improving their supply chain processes and increasing their revenue through more streamlined fulfillment activities," said Robert Koerner, President and COO at TLC. "The DeliveryNet solution will enable us to rapidly set up a high-performance logistics network for each of our customers, connecting them to their trading partners to enable real-time visibility of shipments and logistics transactions throughout their networks. We also get connected to Descartes' Global Logistics Network via Descartes' DeliveryNet solution, which opens up new opportunities for revenue and cost savings for our own organization."

"We are seeing accelerated global adoption of Descartes' DeliveryNet solution by logistics service providers like TLC," said Aivars Lode, Group President at Descartes. "These logistics service organizations are seeing the tremendous potential of Descartes' logistics network technology to create new ways of offering better customer service and attracting new business with value-added services available over the network. The DeliveryNet solution is flexible and scalable to meet the high demands of varying customer requirements and global logistics processes."

Descartes' DeliveryNet solution provides a single point of connection to the Global Logistics Network for logistics service providers like TLC. 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 TLC

TLC is the only third party provider in the US offering a full array of warehousing, transportation, and international logistics management across all temperature ranges, both dry and refrigerated-frozen. Visit www.totallogistic.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.