Wireless Terminal Management Solution From Americas Systems Inc. Helps Port Area Depot Manager Track Containers While Reducing Costs.Business Editors NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2002 Americas Systems Inc., a leading developer of innovative IT solutions for transportation, has integrated wireless functionality into its market-leading online terminal management system, eTERM, creating a significantly more powerful tool for tracking container movements through inland depots. Ironbound i·ron·bound adj. 1. Bound with iron. 2. Rigid and unyielding: an ironbound moral code. 3. Bound with rocks and cliffs: ironbound coasts. Intermodal Inc., operator of three container yards in the Newark/Elizabeth port area, is the first company to complete deployment of eTERM Wireless 1.0, to communicate with handheld units. "Ironbound Intermodal was among the very first users of ASI's eTERM product and one of its most appealing features was the ability for us to help ASI ASI, n See Anxiety Sensitivity Index. expand the uses for the existing system as it evolved," said Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Pizzuto, director of operations. "The introduction of improved state-of-the-art communications is an important value-added feature for our customers and an indication of how ASI and Ironbound can grow their products to meet new challenges." After several ocean carriers began requesting real-time 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. capability, Ironbound implemented the eTERM desktop application in June 2000. eTERM automated the creation of terminal activity reports and billing processes, and also provided the EDI capabilities to eliminate fax and e-mail communications. With eTERM Wireless 1.0 now live at Ironbound, gate transactions are sent electronically in real-time to Ironbound's customers, improving tracking accuracy and eliminating redundant processes for Ironbound employees. Previously, employees at the Ironbound gates wrote a paper Equipment Interchange Receipt, or EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) . Then another employee in the Ironbound office keyed the information into eTERM. EDI Wireless 1.0 now allows Ironbound to capture gate activity data in real-time and integrate it into existing eTERM management and communications applications, closing the circle. With real-time EDI from the depots, ocean carriers increase their equipment utilization and reduce the expense of phone calls and faxes. As an Internet application, eTERM Wireless Release 1.0 can communicate with any Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. web enabled handheld unit. Container Yards and Terminals can choose the handheld unit and printer that meet their facility's requirements and budget. Ironbound chose the Teklogix 7520, a ruggedized unit similar to the handheld equipment used at many marine terminals in the ports of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and New Jersey. About eTERM eTERM (www.etermsys.com.) is the first ASP-model online depot management system built in a growing class of software being used by shippers, carriers, third-party logistics A third-party logistics provider (abbreviated 3PL) is a firm that provides outsourced or "third party" logistics services to companies for part, or sometimes all of their supply chain management function. providers and other transportation companies to help track containers - both loaded and empty - at inland depots and container yards. eTERM provides updates to carriers' systems for better equipment visibility and control while outside the carriers' proprietary facilities or marine terminal. In addition to eTERM transmitting 322 gate activity EDI messages to terminal customers, several ocean carriers are now sending bookings to eTERM using the ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. 301 message set. With bookings recorded into the system electronically, errors and manual work for both the ocean carrier and the terminal are reduced and trucker turn times through the gate are reduced. About ASI Americas Systems, Inc. (ASI) of Murray Hill Murray Hill may refer to one of the following places:
For additional information on ASI, visit www.americasys.com |
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