GERS And Descartes Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver E-Business Solutions to Retail Operations

Furniture World Magazine

GERS Retail Systems, a leading supplier of enterprise-wide solutions for the business-to-consumer marketplace, announced that it has formed a strategic alliance with The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (Nasdaq:DSGX - news; TSE:DSG - news), a leading provider of e-Commerce fulfillment solutions, to provide high-performance customer fulfillment networks for home delivery operations. Under the strategic alliance, GERS will offer Descartes' wireless routing and scheduling optimization solutions to enable both its traditional and e-business customers to meet time windows for pickup, sales, service and delivery. Integrated into the GERS Point-of-Sale system, Descartes' real-time scheduling solution will enable sales representatives to offer customers a choice of delivery times based on available time windows. The Descartes system verifies customer's address at the point of order, then creates optimized routes and schedules that meet customer time windows while minimizing delivery costs. ``The GERS-Descartes alliance will enable GERS customers to transform their business from bricks-and-mortar to clicks-and-mortar,'' said Ken Bob, senior vice president at Descartes. ``The combination of GERS' robust front end order processing system and Descartes' high-performance routing and scheduling technology will offer GERS customers an effective launch into the world of e-Commerce.'' ``Descartes is the premiere provider of fulfillment solutions for home delivery,'' said Mary Lanham, GERS vice president of strategic alliances. ``Our strategic alliance will offer Descartes' routing and scheduling optimization technology to help GERS customers achieve greater efficiencies in their fulfillment operations and reach higher levels of customer service.'' About Descartes Systems Group: Descartes develops e-business solutions for customer fulfillment networks. Descartes' industry-specific, prepackaged solution portfolios and its componentized applications enable companies to create high-performance customer fulfillment networks -- aka DeliveryNets(TM). These solutions empower organizations to deliver reliable, responsive customer service in a profitable manner and to create innovative new products and services. Descartes products are used today by more than 850 companies in 35 vertical industries and 50 countries worldwide. Visit www.descartes.com. About GERS Retail Systems: With over 400 installations worldwide, GERS Retail Systems has been a leading supplier of electronic retail enterprise software solutions for the business-to-consumer marketplace for the past 25 years. The GERS e-Business Solution Suite includes mission critical transaction management applications for Web commerce, store-based retailing, and catalog sales. Additionally, GERS provides fully-integrated corporate office applications for merchandise replenishment and allocation, distribution center management, and financial control. Integral to the GERS solution set are Business Intelligence applications for predictive modeling and decision support, and Workflow Automation applications for maximizing productivity across the enterprise. For more information, logon to www.gers.com