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Greetings!
Some exciting news arrived at BGI this morning.
The Inbound Logistics Magazine editorial team has selected BGI International as a 2004 Top 100 Logistics IT Provider. This article appears in the May 2004 issue of Inbound Logistics, and will be posted on their web site within the next few weeks. www.inboundlogistics.com
To make this decision, Inbound Logistics editors compared and researched more than 300 Logistics IT providers--from the largest, most well-known companies to the smaller niche providers. The main criteria was not size or revenue, but providing logistics IT solutions that best meet their readers' diverse needs. BGI fits that criteria. Thank you for helping to make it so.
New Customer Service Associate at BGI . David Rahija is joining BGI on May 3 to assist in new installations, upgrades and tier one and two support. David will be joining Dale King, Doug Rowland and Dave Blair in the customer service team. If you call BGI with a support question, chances are you’ll be talking to David. David and his wife are relocating from Emporia, KS to the Kansas City area. David has a BS in Computer Information Systems. He will be looking forward to talking with you.
drahija@bgiweb.com
SmartDock BGI is pleased to announce SmartDock is now available in an SQL Server database version. The application has been converted from an Interbase database to SQL Server 2000.
Web Services – Phase Two Follow this link to our web site for a short dissertation of what features are in Phase Two of BGI Web Services. Also, see the article within on Progressive Load Tendering for an explanation of specific features supported in Phase Two. http://www.bgint.com/solutions/sub_TMSwebservices.htm
TMS-2000 Tips
Web Services Module and Progressive Load Tendering - Have you ever had a carrier say they didn’t receive a load tender? TMS-2000 Version 5.2 has a feature that allows you to use the Internet to tender loads to carriers. This not only provides a simple communications method to notify carriers, it also provides a way for carriers to confirm the tender back to you. Upon carrier acceptance of a load, your load status in TMS-2000 will automatically be updated to a confirmed status with the date and time stamp of when your carrier accepted the load.
In addition, the word ‘progressive’ means that you can set up multiple carriers to tender to for a single load. User defined time constraints will automatically re-tender the load to the next carrier when expired. TMS-2000 is also notified during each of these steps. There is no more need to bird dog your carriers to phone in when they leave the vendor with a load. Carriers can now communicate actual pick up date and time information through the Internet which automatically updates your TMS-2000 system.
As a TMS-2000 client on BGI Web Services, you now have the ability to search for available carrier equipment. BGI Web Services will display where and when the equipment will be available as well as the carriers desired destination.
Third Party Billing – TMS-2000 Version 5.2 has a completely redesigned and enhanced billing feature. This feature allows you to bill anyone for anything. TMS creates a table of billing data so that repetitious billings are remembered and streamlines. This feature is also available for vendor bill backs.
Upcoming Conferences BGI will attend…
Core-Mark Operations Conference, Scottsdale, AZ May 6, 2004
FMI Productivity Conference, Dallas, TX October 17-19, 2004
UniPro Operations Conference, Dallas, TX October 15-16, 2004
UniPro Purchasing Conference, Chicago, IL October 17-19, 2004
UniPro Regional Logistics Manager’s Meetings. TBD
ProGroup Operations Conference. TBD
Feedback
We encourage your comments and suggestions. Your opinions about the logistics software industry hold value and we would like to assist in expressing them. Just Reply or send an e-mail with your comments, questions, or ideas to tbauer@bgiweb.com
Contacts:
Peter Rappe, 913-829-7900 prappe@bgiweb.com
Tom Walton, 301-352-7413 twalton@bgiweb.com
Tom Bauer, 913-829-7900 tbauer@bgiweb.com
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New Clients
TMS-2000
FPC Foodservices
Southern Foods, Inc.
Blue Line Distributing
McDonald Wholesale
Liberty Candy
SmartDock
MBM
Shaw’s Supermarkets
GFS Henry Lee
Jakes Foodservice
Ellenbee Leggett Foodservice
Glazier Foods
HRS Foodservice
Blitz USA
BGI Logistics
Souza Food Service
Core-Mark International
Links
These are Links to articles and information on our web site that may be of interest to you. Just click on the links and follow your browser there. If you would prefer, we can email you copies of the articles in Adobe PDF or MS Word. Just Reply to this letter and tell us which document you would like us to send and in what format.
10 Tips for buying software -This is a listing of questions we often hear in our presentations. We have addressed each issue in light of what we feel buyers should be asking of their software providers. http://www.bgint.com/news.htm FMI’s Customer Pick-Up/Backhaul Fairness Statement – This is a rather lengthy but thorough look at the expectations vendors and customers should have of each other in the backhaul and customer pick up arena. http://www.bgint.com/news.htm 3PL Implementation Pointers – If you are wondering how to implement a Third Party Logistics company this document offers some insights into Best Practices for a successful program.
Internet Explorer vs. Smart Clients – This document addresses a software architectural design issue. It discusses Application Service Providers (ASP) that use web browsers and their future. This is a good way to educate yourself on the future of Microsoft’s development of the browser and the use of Smart Clients.
OffShore Development - This is a timely topic and one that we have been getting questions about recently. BGI does NOT use third party developers, in country or out. 100% of the code we use in our software is written in Olathe, KS by BGI engineers.
Best Practices – This is a short article on some of the barriers we have found to the implementation of a successful inbound traffic management program. Observations are from personal experiences in other positions and from 16 years of experience in the food distribution software business.
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