Manhattan Associates Enhances Carrier Management Solution to Help Drive Down Transportation Costs; New Functionality Considers Toll Costs in Addition to Fuel Prices When Determining Optimal Routes.ATLANTA -- Leading supply chain solutions provider, Manhattan Associates Manhattan Associates is a supply chain management software provider. It was founded in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, California from where it borrows its name. The company has been headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1995 and operates offices around the world. , Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : MANH MANH Manhattan Associates, Inc. (stock symbol) ), released the latest version of the Fuel&Route(R) component of its Carrier Management solution, designed to help carriers reduce overall fuel expense and out-of-route miles through intelligent routing, fuel optimization and fleet monitoring capabilities. The new release provides functionality that will allow carriers to include actual toll costs, precise street level-directions and real-time OOR/ETA monitoring when optimizing fuel and route plans. Manhattan Associates worked closely with ALK ALK Alkohol (German: alcohol) ALK Alkaline ALK Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase ALK Automatisierte Liegenschaftskarte ALK Activin Receptor-Like Kinase ALK Alkylation ALK Srilankan Airlines (ICAO code) Technologies to integrate ALK FleetSuite Tolls into this latest version to offer this industry-leading routing and navigation solution to the commercial trucking industry. Manhattan Associates enhanced the Fuel&Route solution in response to customer demand for increased capabilities. A unique new feature is that the solution can take toll costs into consideration when determining routes, giving customers the option of avoiding toll roads The following is a list of toll roads. Toll roads are roads on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. This list also contains toll bridges and toll tunnels. Lists of these subsets of toll roads can be found in List of toll bridges and List of toll tunnels. if appropriate. "In the transportation industry, the needs of our customers are changing constantly based on fluctuating fuel prices, toll costs, regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. and the demands of their customers," said Eddie Capel, Manhattan Associates' senior vice president, product management. "Manhattan Associates' enhanced Fuel&Route can help carriers address these issues. As a low-cost total fuel and routing solution, it helps customers decrease out of route miles The number of miles that are spanned by a telecommunications network. It does not include combined wire mileage due to multiple wires or fibers within a single cable or by overlapping segments, just the total geographic distance between cities or other terminal points. and to lower fuel and toll costs without jeopardizing service to their customers." Fuel&Route also provides Estimated Time of Arrival For other uses, see ETA (disambiguation) The estimated time of arrival or ETA is a measure of when a vehicle, aircraft, cargo, emergency service, or computer file is expected to arrive at a certain place. (ETA) and Out of Route Monitor functionality. With these capabilities, carriers know whether drivers will arrive at a customer's location on time and whether drivers will run additional miles, adding costs and potentially impacting customer service levels. Out of Route also sends an alert to the carrier when basic route parameters are violated, allowing carriers to take action to ensure customer needs are satisfied and further helping to control mileage and costs. About Manhattan Associates, Inc. Manhattan Associates(R) is a leading supply chain solutions provider. The company's demand intelligence, advanced planning, supply chain planning, supply chain execution and business process platform capabilities enable its more than 1200 customers worldwide to enhance profitability, performance and competitive advantage. For more information, please visit www.manh.com. |
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