Scaleable, e-Business Platform Delivers Transportation Services To Net Markets and Private Portals ATLANTA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Logility, the leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative commerce solutions to power e-Business and optimize the supply chain, today announced the availability of Logility Voyager Select(TM), extending transportation services to business-to- business (B2B) Net Markets and private company portals. Voyager Select is highly scaleable to support the numerous one-to-many relationships inherent to the Net Market architecture. These Internet-based communities will benefit from increased liquidity as they deliver advanced logistics and transportation solutions that facilitate complete buy/sell transactions. Today, Net Market participants must make sourcing decisions without consideration of transportation service and cost information or investigate transportation alternatives off-line. This reduces the Net Market's value to the community, adding steps to the procurement process and potentially adding costs to the transaction. Voyager Select enables users to determine the total landed cost of a purchase by accurately determining best mode and carrier for the order and consideration in the buying decision. Voyager Select calculates the least cost for purchases based on weight, product type, cube and origin/destination for small package/express, less- than-truckload (LTL), truckload (TL), rail and intermodal shipments. Adding transportation management to a Net Market requires sophisticated technology and a highly scaleable architecture. According to an article by Chris Newton, senior analyst e-Fulfillment, published in The AMR Research Alert on Supply Chain Management for December 4, 2000, "Voyager Select fills a current void in the online ordering process of many trading exchanges by providing critical transportation information during, rather than after, the procurement process, enabling buyers to make more intelligent order sourcing decisions." Logility Voyager Select has powered high-volume users for years including Ingram Micro Inc., Sprint PCS and American Freightways. "Incorporating Logility into Ingram Micro's domestic, on-line order management services enables us to provide our customers with more carrier choices and better transportation management to choose the appropriate service to fit their needs," stated Terry Tysseland, senior vice president operations, Ingram Micro Inc. "With Logility as the backbone of our front-end carrier selection feature, Ingram Micro transacts hundreds of thousands of carrier selection requests per week." Sprint PCS utilizes Voyager Select as an integral part of their Application Service Provider (ASP) based total transportation management solution. "Voyager Select enables us to search for the most economical service from our high-quality carriers for over 85,000 shipments per month, while ensuring we meet the customer's requirements for delivery date and time, " said Joe Tarantino, senior manager for corporate transportation, Sprint PCS. "Logility's solution is the backbone of our invoicing systems" according to Gray Lanier, vice president of pricing at American Freightways. "We must have accurate invoices or our workload increases and our customers become dissatisfied. Logility provides that accuracy for over 45,000 rated shipments every day." Logility's 25 years of transportation management experience has proven that transportation requires accurate carrier rate data. Voyager Select supports an extensive variety of carrier rates, discounts and accessorial charges for multiple modes of transportation. Voyager Select is designed with an open-integration architecture for configurable deployment and scalability. Voyager Select is available today and provides extensive transportation services for Net Markets with: Rates and Zones for Small Package Carriers: Voyager Select provides rate and zone information for UPS and FedEx, the industry leaders in small-package ground and express delivery, enabling the community users to accurately estimate shipment costs. Comprehensive LTL Rate Database: Voyager Select supports over 400 less- than-truckload (LTL) tariffs available today, including CZAR Lite, Rate Bureaus and can accommodate additional LTL carriers required. National Rail Route Database: Voyager Select integrates precise rail route information to perform rail shipment calculations essential to moving bulk and commodity items. Discounts, Extensions and Accessorial Calculations: Voyager Select uses the base rates, contract discounts, accessorial charges and negotiated rates between shipper and carriers to calculate precise, audit-quality transportation costs. This provides accurate invoice expectation and supports an accurate freight cost component of total landed cost calculations. Transit Time Database: This information is provided for 88 carriers in the library and can be created for additional carriers as needed. This enables accurate delivery estimates and correct mode and carrier selection when delivery dates are negotiated between buyer and seller. Embedded Geographic Database: More than 240,000 US and Canadian locations with city, state, postal codes, latitudes and longitudes are stored in Voyager Select to support precise determination of geographic locations, a prerequisite for a effective transportation solution. Integrated PC*Miler or Milemaker: ALK's PC*Miler or Rand McNally's Milemaker seamlessly integrate with Voyager Select to accurately calculate distances for distance-based truckload carrier rates providing a database that is updated by a third-party, eliminating maintenance. Callable Server: Voyager Select's rating engines are embedded or called from the Net Market application during the order transaction, enabling real- time rating, routing and carrier selection. It may be hosted on the Net Market's application server or via an Application Service Provider (ASP), and is completely scaleable for one-to-many and many-to-many architectures. "Logility is widely recognized as a leader in providing the industry with e-Business solutions that optimize the supply chain to better manage costs," stated Mike Edenfield, Logility CEO. "Voyager Select leverages this expertise to provide liquidity to Net Markets and private company portals, delivering a critical transportation service needed by community users." About Logility Logility is the leading provider of B2B collaborative commerce solutions to power e-Business and optimize the supply chain. Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) enable networks of trading partners including Net Markets, suppliers, manufacturers and retailers to collaborate, integrate and synchronize their planning and e-fulfillment operations. Logility customers have realized substantial bottom-line results in record time. Voyager Solutions are CPFR(R) compliant, open, scalable and ASP ready, facilitating even the most complex trading partner networks. Logility is proud to serve such customers as ConAgra, Heineken USA, McCormick & Company, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Reynolds Metals, SmarterKids.com, Sony Electronics, Timex and VF Corporation. For more information about Logility call 1-800-762-5207 or visit http://www.logility.com . Logility Voyager Solutions and Logility Voyager Select are trademarks of Logility. CPFR is a registered trademark of Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Standards (VICS) Association. For more information on CPFR go to http://www.cpfr.org or http://www.vics.org .SOURCE Logility
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