SMC3 Announces Integration Of Dynamic Freight Rating Content With SAP® Transportation Management
Orlando, FL--(Marketwire) - SMC3, a leading provider of content and enabling technology for transportation rating, announced today that RateWare® XL and other SMC3 content now provides supply chain professionals using the SAP® Transportation Management (SAP TM) application dynamic access to less-than-truckload (LTL) and truckload shipping rates as well as detailed carrier service and transit time information. In addition, SMC3 announced its RateWare XL 1.0 rating technology is SAP certified as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. Through the certification, SMC3 demonstrated that RateWare XL 1.0 runs successfully on SAP NetWeaver.
"Content for dynamic freight rating gives shippers the power to make informed, completely confident service- and cost-based transportation routing decisions," said Warren Patterson, SMC3 senior vice president of product strategy and development. "And, because SAP TM and the SAP ERP application are tightly integrated, shippers can tie freight costs back to the correct financial accounts."
SAP TM provides a robust transportation management environment that allows companies to meet the unique delivery requirements of customers while managing their transportation spend. With SAP TM, shippers and logistics service providers can automatically route simple to complex international and domestic orders, collaborate with carriers, rate shipments, accrue and pay for transportation services, settle transportation charges, coordinate with the warehouse, ship product, and track every step in the transportation management process.
"It's our goal to help customers stretch their transportation and IT dollars," said Brad Gregory, SMC3 director of software alliances. "This solution delivers extremely accurate shipping rates that are dynamically updated, which practically eliminates the need for costly rate maintenance and dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership."
SMC3 is an SAP content partner. The content solution SMC3 developed for the SAP TM application includes more than 4,000 rate tariffs and the industry-standard SMC3 CzarLite® base rate system. With rating speeds of over 80,000 rate requests per second, SMC3 RateWare XL is able to rapidly deliver class or density-based pricing information for LTL and truckload shipments. Additionally, the content within SMC3 CarrierConnect™ XL enables access to North American points of service and transit time schedules from select truckload carriers and over 150 leading national, interregional, regional and niche LTL carriers.
For more information about SMC3 products and services, visit booth No. 644 at the SAPPHIRE® 2009 Orlando conference, May 11-14, or phone 800-845-8090 or e-mail info@smc3.com.
About SMC3
SMC3 is the foremost provider of data, technology and education to the North American freight transportation community. Over 5,000 customers -- including shippers, carriers, logistics service providers and freight payment companies -- rely on our pricing expertise to efficiently run supply chain operations. SMC3's products, which are delivered directly and in partnership with leading transportation software developers, include CzarLite, the industry's premier LTL base rate and benchmarking system for shipments within and between the United States, Canada and Mexico. For more information visit www.smc3.com.
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SOURCE: SMC3