CarrierPoint Provides WebDispatch and Dynamic Shipping MarketPlace Solutions to Ticona, a Unit of Celanese AG.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 2001 Leader in Technical Polymers Selects Leader in Logistics Software Solutions to Improve Shipping Efficiencies CarrierPoint(SM), Inc., a leading provider of Web-based logistics software solutions to the $154 billion less-than-truckload and full-truckload freight market, has announced it is providing its WebDispatch and Dynamic Shipping MarketPlace(SM) (DSM 1. DSM - Data Structure Manager. An object-oriented language by J.E. Rumbaugh and M.E. Loomis of GE, similar to C++. It is used in implementation of CAD/CAE software. DSM is written in DSM and C and produces C as output. )(SM) applications to Ticona Ticona is an international manufacturer of engineering polymers. The company's head office has been located at the Ticona/Celanese-Plant in the German town of Kelsterbach near Frankfurt since 2002. , the industry leading technical polymers business of Celanese AG. The implementation of Ticona's core carrier management process was completed at all of its shipping facilities in 1999. The result was tighter relationships with fewer LTL LTL - Linear Temporal Logic and TL carriers, which increased the efficiency of shipment scheduling and coordination at both the corporate traffic department level and at the plant/warehouse operations level. One of Ticona's objectives for the year 2000 was to improve the efficiency of its shipment tendering process to Ticona's core carriers via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . With a limited transportation staff, the effort required to operate the current scheduling process needed to be reduced by 50%. CarrierPoint came to Ticona with a solution. "With CarrierPoint's applications, we are becoming true partners with our carriers. We are eliminating several telephone calls to carriers and managing the process more efficiently due to fewer man hours on the phone," said Stephen Wright
"Ticona needed to centrally manage its shipment consolidation process, carrier selection and scheduling by using a shipment tendering process that would be cost effective and increasingly time efficient," said Wright. "Ticona saw an immediate improvement at the start of this program, and realized that its obstacles were eliminated with CarrierPoint's applications." CarrierPoint's WebDispatch allows shippers and carriers to conduct their contract business directly without the use of labor-intensive and error-prone business processes, expensive EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. technology or the costly involvement of a third party. Dynamic Shipping MarketPlace allows shippers and carriers to offer shipments, communicate prices, make commitments and share information in a secure, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. environment using either their own private marketplaces or CarrierPoint's public marketplace. Ticona will be researching CarrierPoint's DockMaster(SM) application later this year. DockMaster is CarrierPoint's dock scheduling tool that allows shippers to effectively manage their docks and their carriers. About Ticona Ticona, the technical polymers business of Celanese AG, Frankfurt, produces and markets a broad range of engineering polymers and achieved sales of (euro)923 million in 2000. The company has about 2,400 employees worldwide and production, compounding and research facilities in the USA, Germany, the UK, and Brazil. For more information about Ticona and Celanese, visit their Web sites at www.ticona.com and www.celanese.com. About CarrierPoint Based in Atlanta, Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. , CarrierPoint is a leading logistics software provider, supplying Web-based applications See Web application. that allow shippers and carriers to communicate in real time. Through the use of electronic commerce, advanced communications and data warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse technology, CarrierPoint leverages the Internet to facilitate both contract and spot market shipments and to improve operating efficiencies. CarrierPoint's value-added logistics toolset is available in an ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). format or through licensing of the software. For more information about CarrierPoint, visit its Web site at www.carrierpoint.com. |
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