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“Schneider has been providing logistics services to customers in North America and abroad for more than 10 years,” says Tom Escott, president of Schneider Logistics. “Our strategic acquisitions within the last three years have significantly built out our international service offerings. Now, as one company, we present a single-source solution for our customers’ international supply chains— from a shipment’s critical first mile to its final destination.” Today, Schneider Logistics services include transportation management, freight brokerage, air/ocean freight forwarding, customs house brokerage, transloading and distribution, supply chain management, supply chain advisory services and freight audit and payment. Schneider Logistics has also merged its web site into the virtual home of Schneider National, its parent company. Visit www.schneider.com. Producer of Automotive Finishes, Coatings Implements ERP System from Deacom NPA Coatings, a subsidiary of Nippon Paints of Japan, will implement Deacom’s accounting and enterprise resource planning system across two divisions at its headquarters in Cleveland. A producer of finishes primarily for the automotive industry, NPA Coatings selected the Deacom product to replace multiple non-integrated systems used to handle its business and lab processes. Formulation, labeling, quality control testing, and regulatory reporting were performed outside of the ERP system, requiring numerous manual and electronic workarounds. “Our old software systems were very dated and kept us from optimizing the way we work,” says CFO Gary Rizzardi. “The switch to Deacom should really help us manage our business more effectively and help us to continue to grow.” Visit www.deacom.net. tory are reduced because stock can be accurately located with HiG-Tek’s active-RFID solution, eliminating the need to maintain excess oil in the supply chain. Visit www.higtek.com. European Oil Company Employs Hi-G-Tek Fuel Monitoring System Hi-G-Tek, which develops RFID sensing and control solutions for tracking high-value cargo and sensitive materials, says it has installed a comprehensive fuel distribution monitoring solution for the Rompetrol Group, a multinational oil company operating in 13 European countries. Hi-G-Tek officials say the system monitors and communicates real-time information about fuel in the company’s secondary distribution chain, from depot to pump, in both Romania and Bulgaria. The data captured is processed and transmitted to Rompetrol’s enterprise software system, enabling Rompetrol to track and monitor inventory, deliveries and asset levels in real time. Primary benefits include an estimated 20 percent reduction of excess inventory, an expected 80 percent decline in fraud and a 25 percent decrease in rolling stock. Rolling stock and excess inven- McLeod: Enhanced LoadMaster Solution Improves Trucking Fleet Management McLeod Software, a provider of dispatch, accounting and enterprise management solutions for trucking and brokerage firms, says its LoadMaster V9.0 solution has new time-saving and data-access enhancements that will improve management of trucking fleets. “This upgrade was designed to give our customers the ability to do more with less,” says Tom McLeod, president of McLeod Software. “It’s always important to run your operations as efficiently as possible, but with the current economy it becomes even more critical. Version 9.0 adds new features and benefits that make the job easier and faster.” Key components of the new LoadMaster release include: • An enhancement to the Customer and Order Entry screens to show actual Available Credit information—not just over or under the 20 MAY 2008 http://www.schneider.com http://www.deacom.net http://www.higtek.com

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