Global businesses looking to bring added business efficiencies as well as gain visibility into the flow-of-goods across the global network must utilize solutions that are scalable, flexible, and have the required capabilities to excel in today?s transportation environment. i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITWO) now offers additional value to current and future customers with the latest enhancements to its transportation and distribution management (TDM) solutions.

i2 customers such as Grupo Modelo, LG Electronics, Texas Instruments, TNT Logistics, and US Foodservice have recently selected i2 TDM to overcome transportation challenges such as reducing costs while improving service levels, and maximizing asset and capacity utilization. i2 customers are achieving these goals by leveraging leading-edge capabilities such as dock appointment scheduling; sophisticated shipment optimization with cross-docking, merge-in-transit and dynamic hub selection; automated sequential tendering and carrier collaboration; thorough freight audit, payment and cost allocations; visibility, proactive alerting and event management; logistics network modeling, scenario planning and what-if analysis; and transportation rate negotiations and bid optimization.

The solution is designed to enable i2 customers to streamline the entire transportation management lifecycle across strategic, tactical and operational time-horizons. i2 transportation solutions can help customers looking to address the issues related to global freight movements with multi-modal, multi-language and multi-currency support; managing complexities resulting from volatile fuel prices and related surcharges; getting forward visibility into transportation capacity requirements with integrated demand, supply and transportation planning; and increasing capacity utilization of private, dedicated and contract assets.

New i2 TDM enhancements include capabilities such as:

* Iterative transportation planning, which allows load planners to continuously submit loads and shipment orders for optimization.
* International visibility to global flow-of-goods with capabilities to monitor shipments, orders and inventory across the entire network.
* International ocean rate negotiation and bid optimization capabilities to help establish contracts.
* Private fleet and dedicated fleet capabilities to take into account specific constraints and operational considerations related to these assets.
* Flexible user interface with significantly enhanced search, filtering, sorting and data viewing capabilities.
* ?Auto-applied option? to allow for specific options or accessorial charges to be configured and automatically applied at specific locations (load at, distribution center, consignee, hub or pool-point, etc.).

“The need for Transportation Management Systems is more important today than ever before. Supply chains are becoming more fragmented and dispersed due to globalization, outsourcing, and other factors. Transportation serves as the ‘glue’ that links multiple parties and business processes together,? said Adrian Gonzalez, Director, ARC Advisory Group. ?Also, the link between transportation operations and financial performance continues to strengthen. Chief Financial Officers and other C-Level executives are becoming better educated about the role and impact of transportation and logistics on financial performance, driven in part by the need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. i2 Technologies has been a leader in TMS for many years and the latest enhancements will be welcomed by customers.”

Source: i2

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