When searching for a TMS we may have had a different approach. We didn't think of this as a technology end solution for our transportation needs but more so we attempted to find the most efficient vessel to deliver not only the information but the tools to our clients and employees to make educated transparent decisions in the planning and transportation process."

— Del Hawkins Jr., President Capstone Logistics Group

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Technology is essential to manage the complex processes of a 3PL

With today's increasingly complex business and logistics environment coupled with the stressed economy, more and more companies are turning to outsourcing to accommodate their difficult supply chain needs. Outsourcing to a 3PL has always been difficult because of the perceived risks associated with the loss of visibility and control. These companies are demanding that their outsourced service provider deliver flawlessly not only with operational, execution excellence, but also, with real-time, event-oriented information management.

The MercuryGate TMS allows the 3PL to support multiple business models and varying processes within a single solution. The TMS solution allows the 3PL to leverage transportation across all of their customers reducing costs and maximizing profits. Regardless of mode, costs can be appropriately allocated to each customer’s shipment making sure that margins are easily determined. 3PL’s can do different business models such as buy/sell, gain share, management fee, and brokerage all in the same solution.

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Figure 1: Configurable customer portal provides information and value to your clients.

By establishing a state-of-the-art, Internet-based, transportation and logistics technology foundation, you can do away with the people-intensive, highly-manual, and inaccurate processes typical in the small to mid-sized provider’s business. The MercuryGate TMS is an information system dedicated to capturing and monitoring of all the activities and events related to transportation and logistics. From this logistics “nervous system”, real-time information can flow to your customers and their associated business partners in their supply chain as well as to you – giving you the ability to monitor and manage your own business thus allowing you to continually improve your performance and profitability.

MercuryGate provides value by:

Allowing you to manage more customers with your current resources
- Leveraging transportation by seeing all customer shipments in a single view
- Optimizing shipments across all customers creating continuous moves or tours
- Focusing on exception managements
Enabling you to support systematically all business models
- Supporting brokerage, buy/sell, gain share, management fee, etc.
Providing a tool to manage and measure your carriers, customers, and yourselves
Simplifying and expediting the customer boarding process

Most importantly, MercuryGate does all this while reducing your risk to implement our solution. We guarantee to make the business equation close by focusing our costs on how you make money. Furthermore, there is no need to pay for the solution until you are up and running live in production and are satisfied that the solution will meet your needs - that is how confident we are that you will be successful with our TMS solution!

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