Ms. Cara Strohack reports

DESCARTES INTRODUCES NEW AI-POWERED FREE TRADE INTELLIGENCE (FTI) SOLUTION TO HELP REDUCE TRADE COSTS

The Descartes Systems Group Inc. has introduced its new artificial-intelligence-(AI)-enabled Descartes Free Trade Intelligence (FTI) solution to help manufacturers, importers and exporters lower costs by making more informed sourcing and trade decisions. For organizations with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that lack comprehensive global trade management (GTM) capabilities, the solution helps qualify appropriate goods for preferential tariff treatment faster, maximize duty savings opportunities and reduce compliance risk.

"Free trade agreement eligibility can unlock significant duty savings, but qualification remains one of the most complex and resource-intensive areas of compliance. Many organizations continue to manage analysis using spreadsheets, disconnected systems and manual interpretation of regulations. This can create operational inefficiencies, risk and missed opportunities to leverage preferential trade programs," said Brian Hodgson, general manager, Global Trade Intelligence at Descartes. "By combining AI-driven analysis and decision support, Descartes' new solution helps organizations understand how sourcing decisions, supplier changes and evolving trade agreements can impact qualification outcomes."

Leveraging Descartes' Global Logistics Network (GLN) and built on one of the industry's most comprehensive libraries of rules of origin covering more than 250 regimes globally, the Descartes FTI AI solution combines rules-of-origin analysis, regional value content (RVC) calculations, tariff shift logic, supplier declaration management and explainable recommendations in one auditable workflow. The platform uses AI to analyze bills of materials (BOM), tariff classifications, rules of origin and supplier declarations while retaining qualification logic for binding compliance decisions. The solution integrates with Descartes' Global Trade Intelligence suite and ERP environments, enabling organizations to embed AI-powered qualification into existing trade compliance workflows.

Descartes FTI AI provides manufacturers, importers and exporters with:

• Faster duty/tariff savings decisions with AI-enabled analysis across multiple agreements that reduces manual review cycles;
• Stronger audit readiness for internal governance and customs inquiries with documented analysis of reasoning, calculations and tariff shift logic behind recommendations;
• Less manual supplier outreach and data collection with automatic requalification that tracks declarations, supplier responses and requalification triggers;
• More informed production and purchasing decisions with scenario modelling to pro-actively evaluate sourcing alternatives and optimize preferential duty opportunities.

"Organizations are looking for practical AI solutions that deliver measurable business value for quickly changing supply chains," said Ken Wood, executive vice-president, product management, at Descartes. "By combining AI with trusted regulatory expertise and transparent decision making, Descartes FTI AI helps customers accelerate complex qualification across multiple agreements, capture preferential duty savings more efficiently and improve compliance readiness."

About The Descartes Systems Group Inc.

Descartes powers more responsive, efficient, secure, and sustainable international and domestic supply chains by uniting logistics-intensive businesses on its Global Logistics Network (GLN). Shippers, carriers, and logistics service providers connect and collaborate on the GLN leveraging technology, data, and AI to manage last-mile deliveries, domestic and international shipments, transportation rating and payment, global trade research, customs compliance, and a variety of regulatory processes.

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