Bohemia, NY – TransportGistics, the leading provider of simpler is better logistics solutions has just released its latest version of RoutingGuides.com. The new “friendly” technology improves and speeds up communications between shippers, carriers, and consignees, and enables users to post, manage and distribute carrier assignments and rules of engagement with immediate communications to vendors. It enables customers to measure vendor compliance and make sure they are shipping products correctly and most importantly, RoutingGuides.com presents a clear choice of carriers, a clear understanding of how to use those carriers and a clear understanding of whom to contact (and a method to contact them) in the event a problem arises.

Specific improvements to RoutingGuides.com include:

More finite inquiry – enabling vendors to more easily locate the information they require to comply with their customers requirements including weight and service parameters.

Improved routing guide administration features– enabling compliance and logistics managers to more easily manage, change and add carrier assignments and rules of engagement

Improved reporting features – providing more comprehensive and insightful access to vendor activities

Enhanced communication features – closing the communication gap between vendors and customers.

According to Alan Miller, president and CEO of TransportGistics, “The upgrade process was transparent to our customers; they are already enjoying the benefits. Because of the way our technology is deployed, all our customers and their vendors were able to immediately engage the improvements without any negative impact.”

Routing guides are a primary transportation management tool. They enable shippers to ensure that their vendors and customers are using the carriers, rates and services that shippers negotiated. The guides also enable shippers to maintain a manageable number of delivering carriers to maximize efficiencies of the freight receiving process. However, until remote computer access through RoutingGuides.com was introduced to the transportation industry more than two years ago, the War and Peace –sized printed routing manuals were universally considered a headache by shippers who had to update, print, and distribute them, and by vendors who had to look up each shipment in every shipper’s unique guide in order to comply with their complicated instructions. Now, changes can be made in real time and full compliance to shipper instructions is assured.

“If a standard route assignment has not been issued for an extraordinary shipment, vendors and customers can fill out a route request form that will automatically direct the shipment parameters to a routing desk via email or the RoutingGuides desktop management tool,” explained Miller. “Through this medium, shippers eliminate untimely, interruptive phone calls allowing them to manage their time more effectively and maintain an electronic file of requests and responses.”

RoutingGuides.com simplifies the entire compliance process and concurrently leverages all shipment volumes to drive down transportation costs. It identifies a shipper’s choice of carriers to be used for shipments of merchandise varying in weight and service, and it identifies all shipping, packing, marking, and communications requirements as well. RoutingGuides.com also provides transit times, delivery requests and links between shipping and inventory.

RoutingGuides.com is a product of TransportGistics, Inc., a handpicked team of international transportation and logistics experts with roots that reach into all aspects of the Global Supply Chain. It specializes in “simpler is better” tools that help companies manage transportation services and customer delivery. TransportGistics products address the inefficiencies in transportation management, reduce freight expense, simplify the functions to be executed, make transportation information immediately visible to all parties involved in the transaction process, improve communications, improve performance, lower costs, and increase productivity without sacrificing investments in existing technologies.