Here’s a quote:
“You may think you’re good at picking the lowest-cost carrier. But chances are, a TMS can do it better.”

As much as our marketing folks would love to have thought of that line, it came directly from DC Velocity’s technology review of Transportation Management Systems. The entire article can be found: Software that can help you make smarter moves – DC Velocity

A statistic of interest from the article:
An April survey by supply chain technology provider LeanLogistics found that while 70 percent of executives believe a TMS could improve and streamline their transport procurement functions, more than 80 percent still relied on manual methods. This despite Lean’s estimate that automating the process could reduce the time companies spend identifying and selecting carriers by as much as 75 percent.

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Over the past months, we did a lot of research with shippers, brokers and carriers—customers, prospects and industry friends. Overall, they confirmed that there was clearly a place for a cost-effective and proven option for LTL rate services.

While we deeply respect those already in the market, we feel we have an exciting opportunity here.

We can afford to be affordable. We already make our money on transportation management solutions and we already have these products to support the core business. So, these sophisticated LTL products are already developed and being used on a daily basis by our customers throughout the transportation management markets, therefore we can offer proven-to-work products quickly and relatively inexpensively.

At Transite, we simply want to offer a sensible, high quality, low-cost alternative to the current big players.

We’ll keep you posted.

• Continental LTL Neutral Rate Base
• Continental Carrier Rate Bases
• Continental TruRate
• Continental Transit Information Services
• Continental Carrier GRI and Optimization Services

Learn more about Transite’s Continental LTL Rating Suite

Raleigh, NC – Transite Technology, a leading provider of transportation management software and services, has introduced its Continental Suite of Less-Than-Truckload Rating Tools joining SMC3 and Middlewest Motor Freight Bureau as one of only three companies to offer commercial or off-the-shelf LTL rating products in the U.S. The product group is intended to offer shippers, 3PLs and carriers a low-cost, highly-developed alternative.

“In our research with shippers, brokers and carriers, they voiced a strong desire to have a cost-effective and proven option,” said Les Hamashima, chief operating officer for Transite. “While we respect the current dominant players, we feel we have an exciting opportunity to offer a set of sophisticated LTL products that are already developed and being used on a daily basis by our customers throughout the transportation management market. The Continental products offer significant advantages over the other organizations in terms of technology and functional capabilities, licensing flexibility, and cost.”

The product group is comprised of:

• Continental LTL Neutral Rate Base: a neutral LTL class rate base that is already being used by shippers and 3PLs providing a single base for all carrier pricing.
• Continental Carrier Rate Bases: highly sophisticated rate bases that are developed for carriers to align competitive class rates with the carrier’s business goals by providing the proper foundation for lane rates allowing optimization of rates in a manner that provides the highest revenue per lane.
• Continental TruRate: an LTL rate base engine for rating carrier and neutral rate bases. This product and its library of several hundred carrier bases are available as software or a web service.
• Continental Transit Information Services: a web 2.0 services product that delivers access to information including transit time standards, detailed terminal information, direct/interline points of service, and more.
• Continental Carrier GRI and Optimization Services: GRI optimization services that utilize our proprietary analysis and rating methodologies to enable customers to focus their process to the lanes that reap the most revenue.

Transite Technology, a leading provider of transportation management software and services, has been chosen by Logistic Dynamics, Inc., a quickly growing major 3PL delivering transportation management solutions and services that reduce costs and strengthen processes associated with shipping logistics. Based in Buffalo, N.Y., LDI posted growth of 44.13 % and will be utilizing the software-as-a-services model of Transite’s newly introduced Jaguar TMS which enables the management and automation of all aspects of the logistics lifecycle including carrier selection based on cost and/or service level, dispatch, visibility, and freight audit.

“Second only to our employees, technology is a cornerstone our company’s success,” said Dennis Brown, CEO and president of LDI. “The flexibility of Transite’s Jaguar TMS solution is unique in that it dramatically extends our ability to tailor our transportation management system to the needs of LDI while providing increased efficiency, speed and visibility—while optimizing both price and service for our customers.”

Based on the company’s highly flexible Jaguar transportation management platform, Jaguar TMS allows companies to easily integrate the transportation process with their internal systems. This includes ERP, order management, warehousing, and other transportation systems. Jaguar TMS evolves as needs change—initially can be used as standalone system, and then integrated in a deliberate manner component-by-component.

Because Jaguar TMS can be purchased either through a software as a service (SaaS) subscription or premise installation, shippers can easily afford and immediately cost justify a transportation solution without the large capital expenses, lengthy implementations, or major changes to internal processes.

About Logistic Dynamics, Inc.

Logistic Dynamics, Inc. (LDI) is a non-asset based third party logistics provider that specializes in transportation management and freight broker related services. Logistic Dynamics provides full truckload, less than truckload and rail services to a broad range of customers throughout North America by utilizing their ever expanding network of agents and carrier partners. To learn more about our services or agent program visit www.logisticdynamics.com.

Transite Technology, a leading provider of logistic and shipping cost-management software and services, has introduced a new Transportation Management System based on the company’s highly flexible Jaguar transportation management platform. Jaguar TMS enables shippers and 3PLs to manage and automate all aspects of the logistics lifecycle including carrier selection based on cost and/or service level, dispatch, visibility, and freight audit.

The flexibility of Jaguar TMS allows the customer to “self-customize” by adding their own or third-party transportation management applications.

“Already, we have customers who are migrating from traditional tier-one transportation management systems because Jaguar delivers industry-leading TMS capabilities, while offering unmatched ease of integration and flexibility,” said Geoff Comrie, CEO of Transite. “This means that implementation time is reduced and they are able to build and scale their own transportation applications to adapt to their changing business and unique needs of their customers.”

With Jaguar TMS, companies can easily integrate the transportation process with their internal systems. This includes ERP, order management, warehousing, and other transportation systems. Jaguar TMS evolves as needs change—initially can be used as standalone system, and then integrated in a deliberate manner component-by-component.

Because Jaguar TMS can be purchased either through a software as a service (SaaS) subscription or premise installation, shippers can easily afford and immediately cost justify a transportation solution without the large capital expenses, lengthy implementations, or major changes to internal processes.

The new TMS joins Transite’s Jaguar Transportation Management Suite which includes Jaguar Transportation Development Platform, Jaguar Contract Manager and Jaguar Suite Application Store.

• NEW! Jaguar Transportation Management System
• Jaguar Contract Manager
• Jaguar Transportation Development Platform
• Jaguar Suite Application Store

RALEIGH, NC—June 9, 2010—Transite Technology, a leading provider of transportation management software and services, has been chosen by Capital Transportation Logistics, a major 3PL delivering transportation management solutions and services that reduce costs and strengthen processes associated with shipping logistics.

“Transite’s Jaguar solution is the only solution on the market that offers the scalability and flexibility that our growing and changing company demands,” said Richard P. Haney, president of CTL. “Possessing superior technology is critical to our success in that we are solely driven to enable our customers’ growth and success. If our customers are successful, then we are successful.”

CTL’s Transportation Cost Management process is the cornerstone to the company’s 10-year span of success. This management process combines four crucial aspects of transportation into an effective system that will produce solid gains in price reduction, carrier selection, freight payment, and performance measurement and evaluation. Combining these four elements is the key to driving continuous productivity improvement in the transportation management process.

“Transite’s solution will be the core foundation of the next evolution of our Transportation Cost Management process and will enable us to strengthen our position as a major player in the 3PL market,” said Haney. “We chose Transite because we believe their technology is proven to be the industry gold-standard in allowing us to significantly and cost-effectively tailor the solution to meet and anticipate the specific customer-driven needs of CTL.”

About Capital Logistics Transportation

Capital Logistics Transportation, based in Nashua, N.H., enables customers to reduce transportation logistics costs and improve productivity. Through cutting-edge technology and process design—allowing Transportation Specialists to re-direct focus from tactical operations to strategic planning. The company, founded in 1999, utilizes a process developed to control its transportation activities.

3PLs have great insight into this concept.

Over the past half year, we’ve gained a number of 3PL customers who were looking for transportation management technology that would enable them meet the needs of their growing business. In a crowded 3PL market, they want to create market differentiation by delivering new technology offerings to their end customers that help facilitate their end-customer’s growth and success.

By competing on something other than “price” and help create more client loyalty by becoming more of a strategic partner instead of a simple vendor, they are able to maintain margins, while reducing customer churn. Concurrently, they want to strengthen their own business processes so they are well-positioned as the economy strengthens.

One common theme in working with these customers is hearing how their business vision was limited by the capabilities of their old TMS technology. One analogy is that it’s like having restrictor plates on a NASCAR racer. You want to go fast but technology is an inhibitor.

We think this new breed of open, flexible technology removes such restrictions. Technology enables. Not disables.

Email or call me if you want to discuss: geoff.comrie@transite.com