GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2002--
Centralized Transportation and Logistics Resources Provider Transplace Uses GXS's Enterprise System(TM) 7.5 Integration Broker With AS2 Module to Transact Securely Over the Internet
GE Global eXchange Services (NYSE: GE), a leader in business-to-business Internet commerce, today announced that it has enabled logistics management services provider Transplace to connect to key trading partners over the Internet using the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) transaction protocol. The AS2 protocol allows businesses to save costs and enhance customer service by establishing secure point-to-point connections as needed for transacting over the public Internet.
Transplace has implemented Global eXchange Services' (GXS) Enterprise System 7.5 integration broker software with a newly released AS2 module. The implementation is helping Transplace connect to new trading partners and address new business opportunities using the Internet as a communications platform.
"GXS helped us embrace AS2 and connect to mission-critical trading partners over the Internet using GXS's Enterprise System software," said Jim Schlaefer, Transplace's director of information exchange. "It is also significant to us that Enterprise System has plenty of capacity to handle our future Internet B2B communication needs as Transplace continues to grow."
"Transplace offers a unique and innovative approach to meeting customers' logistics and transportation requirements," said Jim Rogers, GXS's general manager of integration solutions. "We are pleased that Transplace has chosen GXS to deliver leading Internet B2B integration capabilities that will help enhance the value of its services."
GXS's Enterprise System 7.5 provides companies with intelligent document routing, data transformation, business activity monitoring, multiple connection support, real-time back office integration and business process integration (BPI) capabilities. Using GXS's Enterprise System, companies can map supply chain processes to specific business objectives, measure purchasing patterns, view specified supply chain metrics and proactively escalate issues to the correct decision-makers.
More than 600 instances of GXS's Enterprise System are installed around the world. In addition, GXS uses Enterprise System as the integration broker for its own business-to-business transaction network, currently serving 100,000 trading partners globally. Additional information about Enterprise System 7.5 can be found at www.gxs.com/integration.
About Transplace
Transplace (www.transplace.com) offers an industry-leading menu of logistics and transportation management services, ranging from complete outsourcing, as a third-party logistics provider, to single shipment transportation assistance. Using its industry leading Dense Network Efficiency(SM) (DNE) platform of services, Transplace assembles the critical mass of freight and asset networks and applies the optimization algorithms to search for the best matching of freight with carrier assets to increase load ration, while minimizing empty miles and detention hours. Transplace was formed in July 2000 through merger of the six logistics business units of the nation's largest publicly held truckload carriers: Covenant Transport, Inc. (Nasdaq:CVTI), J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:JBHT), M.S. Carriers, Inc. (since merged with Swift Transportation Co., Inc.), Swift Transportation Co., Inc. (Nasdaq:SWFT), U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:XPRSA) and Werner Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq:WERN).
About GE Global eXchange Services
GE Global eXchange Services (GXS) operates one of the largest B2B e-commerce networks in the world, with more than 100,000 trading partners. The network's 1 billion annual transactions account for $1 trillion in goods and services. With more than 35 years experience, GXS provides supply chain services and software to 60% of Fortune 500 companies. GXS is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md. Call (800) 560-4347 or visit our Web site at www.gxs.com.
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CONTACT:
GE Global eXchange Services
Jim Fowler, 301/340-5875
or
Transplace
Kecia Bosse, 972/731-4520