Rising fuel prices, increasing globalization, and pressures to differentiate and add value are driving Transportation and Logistics firms to streamline and innovate. Automating critical business processes and partner interactions is central to meeting those goals.
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"EXTOL has met, and in many cases exceeded, my expectations, providing the capabilities of large-company EDI products in a package that fits small- and medium-sized companies." Dan Lyddy |
For Transportation and Logistics companies, automation avoids errors, eliminates latency, reduces processing costs, increases throughput and capacity, and frees time to focus on customer satisfaction and added value. And further automating Build and Maintain tasks for integration processes speeds new customer onboarding, cuts maintenance time, and reduces lifecycle costs.
EXTOL is a leader in transportation and logistics integration. EXTOL's innovative Design-time Automation™ technology delivers business-critical integration faster and more affordably than alternatives, helping Transportation and Logistics companies achieve important business integration goals, such as:
- Increase revenue and market share by integrating new functions like full-service intermodal support. EXTOL lets you integrate new systems seamlessly with existing back-end applications and processes, making it easier to expand the range of services you offer and penetrate new markets.
- Onboard shippers, carriers, and service providers faster than ever. EXTOL's Design-time Automation™ features, like generating partner endpoints from sample EDI data and generating data transformation rules with Smart Mapping™ let you integrate new partners and transaction types in hours or days, instead of weeks and months.
- Automate integration with less technically sophisticated partners. EXTOL makes it easy to expand your network by on-boarding smaller trading partners that are not EDI-capable. You can integrate by exchanging spreadsheets, flat files, and other desktop office suite-compatible documents. Automated tools let you define partner-specific documents rapidly, from sample data.
- Reduce chargebacks and improve your Vendor Scorecard. EXTOL middleware integrates partner transactions with your applications and business processes to reduce errors, latency, and cost. Combine common exit point processing with customized alerts to notify you when problems arise, so you can resolve issues before they become problems.
- Handle unexpected peaks with reliable and scalable system performance. EXTOL gives you the capacity to process higher volumes of transactions, even during spikes in demand. EXTOL technology leverages multi-threading and other resource optimization techniques to process peak loads efficiently.
- Give your customers on-demand visibility. Gain immediate access to processing status and document history chains with EXTOL's integrated dashboard feature. Extend access to customers and service partners to view their own activities.
EXTOL is proud to be at the heart of some of the most successful companies in Transportation and Logistics, including:
Click here to learn how EXTOL Business Integrator (EBI) 2.5 will help Burris Logistics decrease partner integration time.
C.R. England uses EXTOL's software to improve supply chain communication and enable company growth. Click here to learn how.
Covenant Transport chose to fill their EDI gap with EXTOL's Business Integrator. Find out the reasons why by clicking here.
Dart Transit has reduced their EDI translation expenses by nearly 90 percent using EXTOL Portal and EXTOL Secure Exchange. Learn more by clicking here.
Using EBI has greatly reduced the amount of time Datatrac's developers spend on integration. Click here to read how.
Case Briefs
Logistics & Transportation Company Specializing in Frozen Foods - This company reduced overall maintenance and support costs by $16K/year with EXTOL's solutions.
Refrigerated Transportation Company - Read to find out how this company was able to reduce trading partner on-boarding time with EXTOL EDI Integrator for i.
Trading Network and Rapid Delivery - EBI gave this company the ability to receive data in many formats, allowing business to be conducted with a more diverse group of customers.
