DC Velocity - February 2011

Good morning, Vietnam! The New World Alliance (TNWA), which includes Mitsui O.S.K.

Lines (MOL), APL, and Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM), is introducing a direct Vietnam-to-North Europe service. The Alliance partners are creating the new route by adding Cai Mep in South Vietnam as a call to the JEX (Japan-Europe Express) service.

The service will link Vietnam with the European ports of Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Le Havre. It will also provide direct connection from major Japanese and Chinese ports to Vietnam, where further trade growth is expected. The service provides transit times from Tokyo to Cai Mep of seven days and Cai Mep to Rotterdam of 21 days. (MOL, www.MOLpower.com)

TMSi Logistics Selected as Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America by Inc. Magazine.

Open wide: Serco’s Vertical Storing Leveler (VSL) allows facility dock workers to open truck trailer doors into the building. That enables trailers with hinged doors to back into a dock with the doors closed, instead of being opened by the driver before the trailer pulls into position. This special dock configuration offers facilities the ability to save money through lower energy bills, loss prevention, and increased productivity.

Since the trailer’s doors are able to open into the facility after the trailer is parked at the dock, temperature fluctuations in both the facility and the trailer are minimized, saving energy and preventing food spoilage. In addition, the opening of the doors inside the facility prevents pilferage of products in the driveway. Homeland Security seals are able to be cut in the facility by the owner, ensuring the integrity and security of the product.

This configuration also increases productivity by cutting down on trailer handling. If a trailer is received after hours, it can pull straight through to the dock and keep its doors closed. This eliminates double or triple handling, and enables a facility to open the dock door and trailer doors the next day without repositioning the trailer.

The Serco VSL can be mounted on either a continuous shelf or in a shallow pit, and can be further enhanced by integration with 4Sight, an intelligent dock management software package designed to increase productivity and security at a loading dock. (Serco, www.sercocompany.com)

Vision.

TMSi Logistics has the vision to see areas of improvement in your supply chain and the expertise to know how to fix them. By implementing a values-driven culture that improves your logistics operations, TMSi Logistics can help you deliver on your bottom line — year after year… after year…

Aiming for perfection: Accellos, a developer of logistics, warehouse, third-party logistics, transportation, and mobile fleet management software solutions, offers the latest version of Accellos One PerfectPath. This pick path optimization solution is designed for mid-market wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics service providers.

The latest generation of PerfectPath provides tools that customers can use to drive down their total cost of fulfillment. Version 1. 4 extends the labor saving PerfectPath algorithms by adding support for orders to be grouped and optimized in accordance with the facility’s zone layout/rules. (Accellos, www.accellos.com)

Trade deal: With the increasing pressure to cut costs, accommodate new trade regulations, and take advantage of new preferential trade agreements, businesses need planning tools to improve the design of their global supply chains.

Management Dynamics, a developer of global trade management solutions, offers Trade Planner 3.0. This scenario-based planning tool helps supply chain teams quickly and accurately evaluate alternative sourcing and distribution strategies to optimize total landed cost, while assessing the impact of trade regulations. Scenario-based planning solutions provide key players across sourcing, logistics, and compliance with the ability to make faster, better sourcing and distribution decisions.

With Management Dynamics’ Trade Planner solution, users can quickly and easily compare the costs of sourcing and distributing one or multiple products from multiple locations. Trade Planner allows users to import product descriptions, classify products, and store classifications by country in a product repository.

Trade Planner is fully integrated with Management Dynamics’ Global Trade Content and supports classification by the Harmonized Schedules and Export Control Numbers for over 122 countries, and identifies all applicable embargoes, prohibitions, license requirements, and other product-specific barriers to importing and exporting. Trade Planner 3.0 is an on-demand application that can be quickly and cost-effectively deployed – typically in a few days. (Management Dynamics Inc., www.ManagementDynamics.com) ;

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