TransWorks Announces Commercial
Release of Multi-stop Functionality In Supply Chain Execution
Solution (FORT WAYNE, Indiana)
Following a significant investment in a customer and market
needsassessment along with research and development, TransWorks
today announced a major new releaseof a Shipper Transportation
Management Solution (sTMS). The newly released sTMS will
enhance TransWorks’ leadership role in the Supply Chain
Execution marketplace.
Release 8.2 includes several important
improvements, the most prominent of which are robust Multistop
(multi-pickup and multi-drop) Rating, Tendering, Exception
Management and Freight Payment Capabilities.
Shipment Rating
is performed prior to tendering and when any material changes
are made to theshipment. Examples of this include the origin
departure, addition or removal of a stop by the customer,re-sequencing
of stops by the customer, or updates to weight or mileage
made by the customer. The cost breakdown of the shipment
includes freight, stop-off, fuel and other accessorial
charges, whichenables greater Freight Payment flexibility.
Logistics Managers now have much greater visibility andcontrol
of shipments throughout every pickup and drop-off, fostering
more powerful Exception Management.
"Release 8.2 further
improves TransWorks' lane-based
tendering capabilities," said Tim Minnich, President
of TransWorks. "Originally released in 2006, the lane-based
tendering capability positionedTransWorks as an industry-leading
Transportation Management Solution in the SCE marketplace."
TransWorks has been recognized the past two years as a Top
100 solution by Inbound Logistics.
TransWorks is a business service provider to the transportation
industry, developing and hosting integrated Supply Chain
Execution tools for the truckload, intermodal and rail industry.TransWorks
provides fully integrated, end-to-end solutions for shippers,
intermodal and drayageproviders. Based in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
TransWorks was established as a wholly owned subsidiary of
Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) in 2001.
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