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DESCARTES VISIBILITY &

EVENT MANAGEMENT
SENSING AND RESPONDING TO SUPPLY CHAIN EVENTS

All supply chains have a common challenge: uncertainty. Ensuring that time-sensitive merchandise is received on time and in full by customers from thousands of international suppliers is a costly effort. Without a visibility system, such a task requires teams of sourcing/purchasing people calling and faxing suppliers, additional investment in safety stock, and large budgets for shipment expediting. Descartes Visibility & Event Management helps improve logistics efficiency by enabling companies to collaborate internally and externally and foresee order failures before they happen. Line item-level visibility across multiple modes of transportation is achieved by: 1) Connecting to trading partners, 2) Systematically sharing data in the form of electronic messages such as Purchase Order Acknowledgments, Advanced Shipment Notices, and Carrier Status/Proof of Delivery, and 3) Monitoring the order process.

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Descartes Visibility & Event Management helps reduce shipment variability and reduce costs associated with obsolete inventories.

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DESCARTES VISIBILITY & EVENT MANAGEMENT leverages the power of the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) to provide the connectivity necessary to gain line-item visibility. Over 6000 connected companies use the Descartes GLN to better manage logistics processes.

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Alerts. Users can arrange for alerts based on missed shipment milestones or quantity deviations such as pieces, weight, or value. Reports discrepancies in outside user-defined tolerance levels to applicable parties for resolution. Provides the ability to compare planned events to actual events. Analytics. Offers highly customizable data extraction for making queries and developing performance reports. Allows score-carding of carriers and suppliers based on lead-time, fill rate, or on-time rates. Interactive searches can be conducted on events, order attributes, a single item, or against multiple parameters. Hierarchical reporting. Groups data together by product, location, or buyers to more easily create reports. Uses stock-keeping unit (SKU) numbers to create hierarchies for related products. Monitoring. Continuously gauges material movement against shipment milestones. At-risk or critical orders can be tightly monitored. Enables trend analysis of performance versus prior periods or service level commitments. Reports. Tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) for various user orientations, such as buyer, seller, carrier, or forwarder. Allows historical analysis of partner and supply chain metrics. Activity and exception reports include Purchase Order Activity and Delivery and Quantity Discrepancies. Track buyer and supplier comments. Enables written logs of arrangements made between buyers and suppliers outside the parameters of the system (e.g., a note attached to an item indicating expediting arrangements discussed over the telephone).

Decrease order failures by predicting them before they happen. Reduce unnecessary reorders which result in inventory write-offs. Improve event management with suppliers to reduce uncertainty and the need for safety stock. Provide a role-based, customized view of data for buyers in the purchasing department, expediters in the logistics department, customer service reps, and materials managers in manufacturing.

With better information, we can move our product through the pipeline rather than investing our resources in safety inventory.
Kevin F. Smith, Senior Vice President of Supply Chain and Logistics, CVS Pharmacy

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The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (TSX: DSG) (NASDAQ: DSGX), a leading provider of software-as-a-service logistics solutions, is delivering results across the globe today for organizations that operate logistics intensive businesses. Descartes logistics management solutions provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, book-to-bill services of contract carriers and private fleet management services for organizations of all sizes. These solutions and services help Descartes customers reduce administrative costs, billing cycles, fleet size, contract carrier costs, and mileage driven and improve pick up and delivery reliability. For more information, visit www.descartes.com. Copyright Descartes. All rights reserved. Descartes, the Descartes triangle logo and all product names used are Descartes trademarks unless specifically identified as the trademarks of a third party.
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