WATERLOO, Ontario, April 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX), a federated global logistics network, announced that Mr. Kevin Smith, President and CEO of Sustainable Supply Chain Consulting and a former Senior Vice President of Corporate Sustainability and Supply Chain / Logistics at CVS Caremark, is scheduled to be a keynote speaker at Descartes' upcoming Global User Group Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on October 6, 2010.
Attendees will hear Mr. Smith, along with other logistics industry experts, speak on supply chain technology trends and adoption. This year's conference will focus on how logistics-intensive organizations can differentiate their organizations, adapt to change in industries, market conditions and economic fluctuations, and grow their businesses by improving the productivity and performance of their operations.
Specifically, Mr. Smith's keynote will address drivers for success in supply chain and logistics through collaboration, innovation and organizational development. He will also provide insight into his vision for the future of supply chain and logistics and the value of sharing and trading information, automating processes, balancing risk, the importance of analytics and how to approach sustainability for good business reasons.
The Descartes User Group Conference is the pinnacle event for Descartes users from around the world to federate with other organizations that are a part of the Descartes Global Logistics Network (GLN) community. Attendees will have the opportunity to provide input to product roadmaps, product development and learn more about solution-specific tips and techniques to help achieve optimum performance using Descartes solutions.
Included in this year's conference will be a strategic executive track as well as a half-day training session on various Descartes solutions and interactive industry peer-to-peer sessions. Customers, distributors and industry partners are invited to attend to participate in sessions where they can learn more about how Descartes is setting standards across logistics intensive operations.
What: Descartes Global User Group Conference
When: October 5-7, 2010
Where: W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
To register: Visit http://www.descartes.com/usergroup or contact usergroup@descartes.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 application networks. Descartes' logistics management solutions provide messaging services between logistics trading partners, shipment management services to help manage third party carriers, global customs filing and compliance services to meet regulatory requirements 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 600 employees and is based in Waterloo, Ontario, with operations in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Copenhagen, Eindhoven, Gent, Heverlee, Lier, Namestovo, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, Montreal, Miami, Washington DC, Derby, London, Silver Spring, Stockholm, Suzhou, Shanghai, Tokyo, Toronto, Windsor, and Zilina. For more information, visit www.descartes.com.
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