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to air cargo carrier information, such as product, flight and truck detail, routing, capacity availability and rates, without having to call multiple carriers. “Our focus is to bring together transportation carriers, logistics intermediaries and their customers of various sizes and complexities in shared-services environment using standardized business processes,” says Vincent Ryan, vice president of Global Freight Exchange at Descartes. “CargoBooker is designed to reach smalland medium-sized airfreight forwarders to increase user adoption of electronic bookings in the air cargo industry.” Visit www.descartes.com. Crowley Maritime Uses B2B Integration Platform from Sterling Commerce Crowley Maritime Corporation has implemented the Sterling Commerce Gentran Integration Suite as its business-to-business integration platform. Crowley offers diversified transportation, logistics and emergency response services domestically and internationally. Sterling says that with the use of its solutions, Crowley is now able to build, deploy and manage B2B solutions more easily and quickly across diverse business partner communities. “Since implementing Gentran Integration Suite, we have been able to establish a direct connection with U.S. Customs, eliminating reliance and failure points with outside entities and enabling a smoother transportation process,” says Tom Sheridan, manager of information technology at Crowley. “Additionally, we now have enhanced connection points with our partners, giving us greater visibility into our trading partners and improving document tracking.” Visit www.sterlingcommerce.com. New Billing Management Solution Introduced by HighJump Software HighJump Software has released Billing Management, a platform it says is designed to improve billing accuracy and capture charges on a clientby-client basis for providers of logistics and other services. Billing Management gives companies full visibility into actual costs with comparisons to what was invoiced. This, says HighJump, replaces the practice of spreading client costs evenly across all accounts, which can result in an oversimplified and incorrect analysis. Client-level costing data enables accurate labor costs, as well as profit and loss analyses and reporting. The solution also supports complex contractual requirements that often exist between a logistics service provider and its clients, including billing based on material handling transactions, storage capacity utilization, and client-specific billing requirements. Billing Management creates a single billing platform for all systems. This is possible by accepting data imports from other applications, such as those for transportation management, time and attendance and parcel manifesting. Billing Management also integrates with HighJump’s Warehouse Advantage and many other warehouse management systems, and can automatically generate the appropriate charges based on warehouse activity. Visit www.highjump.com. Procurement Professionals Run Consultancy to Help Companies ‘Green’ Their Operations The Responsible Purchasing Network has launched a consulting arm to assist companies and institutions seeking to “green” their operations—and improve the bottom line in the process. RPN is a national network of procurement-related professionals dedicated to socially responsible and environmentally sustainable purchasing. RPN is said to have worked closely with industrial, educational, and government institutions, including the U.S. House of Representatives. Services provided by RPN consultants include on-site audits, contract evaluations, product and vendor evaluations, cost benefit calculations, custom policies and implementation guidelines, and training on and off-site. It also offers custom purchasing guides, including sample specifications for electronics, lighting, energy, paper, fleets, cleaners and other products. RPN is part of the Center for a New American Dream. Visit www.ResponsiblePurchasing.org and www.newdream.org. Kinaxis Debuts Demand Management Tool for Sales, Planning Departments Kinaxis has announced the availability of RapidResponse for Demand Management, a service “purpose-built” for the chal- 22 MARCH 2008 http://www.descartes.com http://www.sterlingcommerce.com http://www.highjump.com http://www.ResponsiblePurchasing.org http://www.newdream.org

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