Country Home Products Improves Efficiency, Reduces Costs With Descartes Transportation Management Solution

CHICAGO, Sept. 21, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CSCMP Annual Conference -- Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a global on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) logistics solutions provider, announced that Country Home Products, Inc. has implemented Descartes' Transportation Management solution to help reduce costs, improve efficiency and carrier relations. With Descartes Transportation Manager, Country Home Products has saved money, increased accuracy for certain functions and freed-up personnel time by 94% to focus on its other value-added supply chain functions.

Descartes Transportation Management helps logistics managers, shippers and third parties simultaneously evaluate shipment alternatives to find the most efficient shipping method. It optimizes transportation purchases for both operational effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Descartes Transportation Management leverages the power of the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) to provide connectivity to a global multi-modal community of logistics service providers. Over 6,000 connected companies use Descartes' GLN to better manage logistics processes.

We needed to find ways to automate manual processes and reduce our inbound and outbound logistics costs. Our largest carrier told us they were already connected to the Descartes GLN. By connecting to the GLN we had access to many of our carriers immediately, said Steve Charles, Manager, Traffic & Logistics at Country Home Products. With Descartes' Transportation Management solution, we now have greater control over our processes and improved accuracy, which in turn enables us to focus our resources on other areas. Descartes provides us with a flexible solution that enables us to improve our efficiency dramatically and focus on further decreasing cost to improve our margins.

Country Home Products is one of the many Descartes customers getting fast time-to-value using Descartes' Transportation Management solutions. Country Home Products is a great example of how automation and standardization of a business process can dramatically save costs and free up resources to deliver more value in other areas of an organization, said Art Mesher, CEO at Descartes. These benefits, combined with our global logistics network community of logistics service providers, give our customers a differentiated service.

For more information about Descartes' new federated platform, its other value-added logistics solutions, the customers announced today or more about 'The State of Things United' join Descartes in Chicago at CSCMP at one or more of the following events:

* Monday, September 21 9:30am - 7:00pm, booth 609 at the Learning Exchange

* Tuesday, September 22 7:00am - 7:45am, Descartes Press Conference Breakfast Meeting, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Regency D or via a teleconference using designated numbers 800-895-5087 for North America or +1 212-231-2929 for international or via an audio web cast on the Descartes Web site at www.descartes.com/company/investors.

* Tuesday, September 22 10:00am - 11:30am, presentation by Art Mesher, CEO, Descartes Systems Group The State of Things United - The Next Big Thing McCormick Place, West Building, Room 187C

* Tuesday, September 22 5:15pm - 7:00pm Networking Reception, Sponsored by Descartes, McCormick Place, West Building, Skyline Ballroom

About Country Home Products/DR Power

Based in Vermont, Country Home Products, through its DR Power and Neuton Lawn Mower brands, is a manufacturer and direct marketer of high-end outdoor power equipment and lawn and garden accessories. Since 1985, Country Home Products have been manufacturing and selling tools that make outdoor work easier and more enjoyable. They only offer products that they use themselves, each one vigorously tested for performance and durability, with superior quality and value. For more information visit drpower.com or neutonpower.com

About Descartes

Descartes (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) is making the world a better place by enabling global organizations with logistics-intensive businesses to save money by improving the productivity and performance of their operations. Underlying Descartes' offerings is the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN), one of the world's most extensive multi-modal business applications network. As a federated platform, the Descartes GLN combines with component-based 'nano' sized applications to provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services to help manage third party carriers and private fleet management services for organizations of all sizes. Descartes' solutions and services deliver results by enabling organizations around the world to reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven; improve pickup and delivery reliability; and optimize working capital through fleet visibility. Descartes' hosted, transactional and packaged solutions deliver repeatable, measurable results and fast time-to-value. Descartes customers include an estimated 1,600 ground carriers and more than 90 airlines, 30 ocean carriers, 900 freight forwarders and third-party providers of logistics services, and hundreds of manufacturers, retailers, distributors, private fleet owners and regulatory agencies. The company has more than 450 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Derby, London, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.

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