Vanda Selects Descartes To Provide Internet Logistics Solutions To Asian Marketplace

Vanda Selects Descartes To Provide Internet Logistics Solutions To Asian Marketplace

Established in 1982, Vanda is a leading information technology solutions provider in China,Hong Kong and the Asian Markets. It has 20 offices and over 50 business partners inChina. It also operates in Macau, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. In Asia(excluding Japan), Vanda is the biggest business partner for IBM. Its major clients now include leading banks, financial institutions, utilities, major enterprises as well as government ministries in Asia. For more information, visit http://www.vandagroup.com.
DigiLogistics.com, the No. 1 e-Logistics Application Provider in Asia, helps customers to manage every aspect of logistics and transportation on the desktop. It is the first Web-based vendor-neutral B2B exchange and ASP, providing end-to-end value-added services for the logistics and transportation industry. Through DigiLogistics’ freight exchange, logistics service users and providers can enjoy up-to-the-minute information of cargo space availability, on-line cargo booking, multi-modal cargo tracking etc. There are now over 5000 active customers on line. For more information, visithttp://www.DigiLogistics.com.
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.

Greater China’s Largest Systems Integrator To Build DigiLogistics.com Portal With Descartes Technology; Also Forms Alliance To Market and Implement Descartes Solutions In Asia

WATERLOO, ONTARIO, June 28, 2000 — The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (NASDAQ:DSGX), (TSE:DSG), a leading provider of global Internet logistics solutions, announced today that Hong Kong listed Vanda Systems & Communications Holdings Limited (“Vanda”) Stock code: 757), greater China’s largest systems integrator, has selected Descartes technology to provide Internet logistics solutions to the Asian marketplace. Vanda becomes both a Network partner and marketing alliance partner under the agreement with Descartes. Vanda has announced that it will form a new subsidiary, DigiLogistics.com Limited, using Descartes technology to provide focused e-logistics solutions on line. As an alliance partner of Descartes, DigiLogistics.com and Vanda will market and implement Descartes’ DeliveryNet solutions in Asia. Vanda is a leading information technology solution and service provider in China, Hong Kong and the ASEA markets, with major customers including China’s leading five banks, china postal, airlines and retail organizations. This announcement follows news of recent major deals for Descartes in the Asian marketplace, including Konsortium Logistik Berhad, Malaysia’s leading 3PL (see May 15 press release), and Hansol CSN, owner and operator of Korea’s largest online shopping mall and logistics portal (see June 1 press release).

“The Asian marketplace has a great demand for the Internet logistics capabilities and technology infrastructure that Descartes is providing with its DeliveryNet solutions,” said Edmund Ma, Group Managing Director of Vanda. “We have selected Descartes as our strategic partner to provide its leading technology infrastructure to our customers through our own logistics portal – DigiLogistics.com, and we are extending the technology to other companies in Asia. The DeliveryNet technology will offer global visibility and transportation and logistics optimization capabilities throughout the Network. It will also offer these companies access to a global community of transportation and logistics organizations, providing them with opportunities for partnerships, collaboration and global reach to better manage global logistics activities.”

“Vanda and DigiLogistics.com have a strong customer base, technical strength and business expertise in the local Asian marketplace. The alliance with Vanda is another significant step into the Asian marketplace for Descartes and the Global Logistics Network, as we continue to build a technology-driven worldwide community of logistics organizations through Descartes’ Internet logistics infrastructure,” said Aivars Lode, President at Descartes. “Through the marketing and implementation agreement, Vanda will bring global Network visibility and value-added transportation and logistics capabilities to major players in the Asian marketplace with Descartes’ DeliveryNet solutions.”

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.

Participants that connect to the Global Logistics Network through Descartes’ DeliveryNet solutions can deliver a choice of e-fulfillment services, such as real-time visibility of orders, dynamic route optimization, real-time transportation sourcing, merge-in-transit, online transportation exchange and Internet tools for contracts negotiation and rate checking, and delivery personalization and yield management. Descartes’ DeliveryNet solution together with the Global Logistics Network enables logistics organizations to connect new customers, tap into new markets and rapidly deploy new e-fulfillment service bundles, capturing time-to-market advantages. The Global Logistics Network is designed to produce network effects and global economies of scale for all participants.

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DeliveryNet solutions leverage the 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, visithttp://www.descartes.com.