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To: Skywatcher who wrote (5)	1/19/2000 9:20:00 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 22

GERS And Descartes Form Strategic Alliance to Deliver E-Business Solutions to Retail Operations Integrated GERS-Descartes Solution Offers Robust E-Commerce Order & Fulfillment Capabilities SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000-- GERS Retail Systems, a leading supplier of enterprise-wide solutions for the business-to-consumer marketplace, announced today 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.'' This is certainly positive and we'll need some press to avoid falling today I think. chris ''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.''