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A Complete Transportation Management Solution


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When youre working for success, you look to work with an

experienced leader. For more than 25 years, UPS Logistics Technologies

has delivered the industrys leading software solutionssolutions that

help distribution and service companies just like yours realize greater

results in service, efciency and protability than ever before. In fact,youll nd our products in daily use at more than 3,500 locations

worldwide, optimizing delivery logistics and management of over

154,000 vehicles. Backed by the experience, strength and stability of

UPS, one of the worlds leading transportation companies, UPS Logistics

Technologies is driven by a single goalto help your business be

successful.

Leading Logistics Technology


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Are you ready to take your operation to the

next level? The RoadnetTransportation

Suite from UPS Logistics Technologies

can help you achieve your goals. With

a comprehensive set of fully integrated

applications, your logistics staff can quicklytake control over every aspect ofyour

order-to-delivery process.

Are you concerned about off-the-shelf

software that doesnt meet your expecta-

tions? The Roadnet Transportation Suite

is a proven, industry-leading product that

has been road-tested for strategic, tactical,

and operational superiority. Each of our

product modules, whether deployed indi-

vidually or as a suite for optimized results,

is highly configurable in its design. In short,

this solution adapts to the way you work,integrating with your current operations.

What do you stand to lose? Constant

guesswork, inconsistent routing, lost

drivers, and missed deliveries. What you

can gain is even greater:

Decreased fuel and transportation costs

Increased protability

Improved customer satisfaction

Enhanced strategic planning capabilities

Instant access to accurate delivery costs

Optimized resource utilization and

driver management

What about support? UPS Logistics

Technologies provides your employees with

specialized training through our Roadnet

University, as well as dedicated customer

service24/7, 365 days a year. Our

support helps your people use the systemat its full potential and maximize your

investment.

Lets look further at what opportunities the

Roadnet Transportation Suite can

offer you

Achieve Success with Efciency

By far, UPS Logistics Technologieshad the most comprehensive syste

that t our operation to a T. The m

unique thing about them is that yo

can be literally any kind of industr

and they have a way to cater to yo

needs by providing a solution that

works for your particular business

so that you dont have to change t

way you work.

Antonio Brown , Corporate Transportation MaThe Eastern Bag & Paper


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Territory Planner

The Big Picture for Efciency

Fixed routes? Today, they are anything but.

Even the most predictable static routes

can begin to eat away at your companys

profits over time through customer

changes, backtracking, and off-route stops.

Pinpointing and fixing these leaks takes

more than guesswork and sticky notes.

But, where are you going to find the time

and the resources to manually reroute an

entire territory?

What you need is a reliable, powerful tool

that can give you the ability to analyze,

modify and optimize your entire sales,

service and distribution operation from

the top downbased on your companys

unique criteria and historical information.

What you need is Territory Planner.

An Industry First

Territory Planner from UPS Logistics

Technologies has quickly evolved into the

premier strategic tool for planning, balanc-

ing, and managing route-sales, pre-sales

and standard route operations.

As an enterprise or stand-alone software

application, Territory Planners robust

framework and mapping network capabili-

ties provide the complete functionality you

need to take on even the most complex

rerouting analysis. Although it can function

as a stand-alone solution, Territory Planner

can share all of your customer information

with other Roadnet Transportation Suite

applications without the need for entering

data multiple times.

See Your ROI In Months

Simply enter all relevant datacustomer

and operational details such as available

drivers and vehicles, delivery days, open/

close times, preferred delivery times,

volume and customer locationsand

Territory Planners analytical engine will

provide an optimized territory solution,

strategically designing each route and stop

sequence to meet your customers schedul-

ing needs. You can also explore strategic

options for enhanced customer service

and cost efficiencies through Territory

Planners what-if scenario projections,

assess your ability to manage expanded

territories without expanding your fleet,

and reconfigure your current territories and

routes in advance to accommodate seasonal

fluctuations. You can even determine the

actual cost of each delivery stop down to

the penny. The positive impact to your

bottom line will be easy to see as well. In

fact, in just six months or less, Territory

Planner typically can deliver a return on

investmentand thats just for starters.

This sophisticated, easy-to-use strateg

solution can help you:

Optimize all existing sales, service a

delivery routes

Reduce transportation costs by

efciently allocating resources

Automate your strategic reroutingprocess, reducing time and managem

involvement needed to complete the

planning cycle

Balance capacities and workloads

Explore what-if scenarios

Plan for growth, holidays and season

swings

Create service policies based on volu

of business

Capture customized daily reports and

vital historical data Improve customer service, including

exceptions

Maximize oversight and evaluation

Serve as a depot planning tool

Territory Planner At A Glance

As we continue to grow ourbusiness, Territory Planner wi

allow us to realize the benet

increased density by helping u

to create more efcient and

effective routes. This solution

allowed us to take our own hi

standards of customer service

the next level.

Jason Berstein, Vice PreNixon Uniform Service and Medical


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Always Accountable

To keep you informed on all aspects of

territory management, Territory Planner

also offers complete accountability through

a range of easily generated and customized

reports that cover every aspect of your

sales, service and distribution operations,

including:

Territory Cost Report

Territory Distance Report

Territory Summary Report

Territory Exception Report

Driver Itinerary

See what youre missing in your planning.

Territory Planner instantly analyzes andgraphically maps any existing route overlapsthat are causing costly inefciencies in your dailyoperations networkso that you can prepare asuccessful strategy. In this sample map, the blackarea indicates where all routes are overlapping ina single territory over the course of one day.

Score big and win big withTerritory Planners TerritoryScoreboard, which delivers afull set of metrics to documentthe effectiveness of your currentrouting strategyas well as potentialsavings through optimization. Asthe sample above demonstrates,Territory Scoreboard provides the

detailed benchmarks you need toexplore different planning scenarios.

Problems? No problem!Territory Plannerspowerful algorithms deliver an optimized territorysolution that is easily customized to meet yourcompanys changing needs. The sample territorysroutes have now been balanced to avoid overlapand lock in savings.


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Planning for Transportation Success

Roadnet

Your daily route scheduleits where

the rubber meets the road. Every day, its

your ability to manage the last minute

customer needs, and changing conditions

with efficiency in routing and scheduling

that separates success from failure. So why

not give yourself a competitive edge? For

a growing number of leading distribution

companies, every day starts with Roadnet

from UPS Logistics Technologies.

Make the Most of Your Routes

This versatile enterprise or stand-alone

solution gives your dispatchers an effective,

tactical routing tool to optimize daily

delivery operations in just minutes, not

hours. Roadnet offers you the ability to

transform todays orders into tomorrows

routes, locking in the highest number of

efficiencies to improve customer service

while reducing costs. In fact, Roadnet

typically delivers ROI within its rst year of

deployment, with users consistently cutting

their delivery costs by 5 to 15 percent.

Integrating Roadnet with your existing

system is painlessit integrates with

existing order entry and host systems, as

well with all other Roadnet Transportation

Suite applications. Then, by tapping

into its advanced algorithms and custom

street-level routing passes, you can

quickly generate any number of customized

routing assignments. Its easy to account for

whatever variables you determine, includ-

ing road conditions, vehicle and driver

availabilities, time window requirements,

start/close times and maximum route

duration. In doing so, Roadnet allows you

to maintain more consistent standards for

your daily operations, by providing your

drivers with clear performance expectations

for scheduling and sequencing. You can

even create what-if crisis scenarios toplan for possible emergencies, holidays or

inclement weather.

As a result, overages due to driver overtime

and excessive stop times instantly become

a thing of the past. Vehicle capacities

and overall resource utilization increases.

Customer service dramatically improves. In

short, your operation delivers more while

driving less, every day.

Just the Information You Need

Creating and monitoring benchmarks for

your daily operations couldnt be easier

with Roadnet. Choose from a broad

selection of customizable progress reports

(or create your own) to track every aspectof your business and the costs involved.

Standard reporting features include:

Driver manifests, maps, directions and

itineraries

Route summary statistics

Off-Day Delivery Exception Report

Resource Utilization Report

Customer Delivery Cost Report

Time Window Exception Report

Actual versus Planned Reports by Route

and by Stop

Roadnet gives my department

the ability to route more

efciently, cutting run time an

transportation costs, while

staying within the limits of

DOT laws.

Leo Farber, Routing ManSYSCO Balti


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Roadnet At A Glance

This highly exible routing and scheduling

software can help you:

Dramatically reduce eet miles and

driver overtime to build greater

protability

Measure driver performance and

easily integrate new or seasonal

employees on a daily basis with

clearly dened itineraries, manifests,

maps and directions

Maximize driver and equipmentproductivity while adhering to new

hours of service regulations

Meet and exceed customer service

expectations by seamlessly converting

exceptions into opportunities

Assess delivery costs for protability by

drilling down to actual costs per stop

Work smarter by investing fewer hours

in route planning and more time in

strategic forecasting

Explore what-if critical scenarios toplan in advance for the unexpected

Capture customized daily reports and

vital historical data

Are you operating on planand on budget?As one of Roadnets most vital progress reports,Actual vs. Planned gives you and your companysmanagement a precise route-by-route comparisonof successes and shortfalls. As this sample screenshows, actual stops are 100 percent on-plan;however, variances in service and travel time arealso evident. As a result, you quickly can determinthe real costs per stop on each routeand evenassess the particular costs per case or unit ona given load. With this level of detail at yourngertips, you can easily create a more accurateplan for tomorrow.

How will you deliver success tomorrow?With Roadnet, you can plan for it todaywiththe unique ability to access a top-down view ofevery intended delivery route. As this samplescreen shows, Roadnet lets you view all of theparticulars of your active next-day deliveries,including equipment, travel times, and exceptionsIn addition, you can zero in on the specic details

of any one delivery itinerary, and even generatea dynamic map view of that delivery route thatclearly pinpoints each stop.


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MobileCast

Visibility for Your Delivery Day

Youve set up your distribution and service

territories. Youve optimized your routes.

Still, how can you be sure, once they are

on the road, that your drivers are keeping

their eyes on your plan? With MobileCast,

you can. Created by UPS Logistics

Technologies, MobileCast offers yourcompany a comprehensive, turnkey mobile

resource management solution that includes

customized tools, service, sales, and

supportproviding value from day one.

See Whats Happening On-The-Road

With its advanced mobile resource manage-

ment capabilities, MobileCast helps to

empower your team by providing them

with the tools they need to ensure the

highest levels of productivity and customer

service. Unlike AVL (Automatic VehicleLocation) packages, MobileCast literally

lets you step outside the four walls of

your dispatch location to see where all of

your vehicles actually areand if they are

following their respective routing plansin

real time. Out in the eld, MobileCast

offers a range of flexible communication

options for your drivers that can be

scaled to your present needsand that

can be reconfigured easily as your opera-

tions grow. With its open architecture,

MobileCast integrates with your current

routing, scheduling or host systemsas

well as other modules of the Roadnet

Transportation Suite.

Manage By Exception

For your office dispatch operations,

MobileCast is the ideal solution to manage

overload. With its intelligent tracking

overview (which can be set to your

specifications), MobileCast gives your

dispatchers the ability to manage by

exceptionthat is, to see and respond

only to those vehicles that are off-plan.

Exception reports can also be generated,

detailing all exceptions associated with

a trip, including unplanned stops and

route path deviations. In addition,

dispatchers can:

Communicate directly with drivers for

real-time dispatch of new pickups or

deliveries

Receive real-time updates on delivery

status, including all details and variance

Capture actual stop arrival, departure

and service time information

Receive proactive notication of service

failures or late deliveries

View vehicle space availability for

backhauls

View or print route and driver

performance reports

MobileCast At A Glance

A Powerful, Adaptive Solution

That Delivers

Track all vehicles in real time agains

their individual routing plans

Reduce costs due to excessive milea

overtime and deadhead miles

Increase driver accountability and

efciency by eliminating service del

and delivery errors

Manage by exception for greater

dispatch productivity

Promote customer service by antici-

pating and avoiding delivery delays

through on-the-y rerouting while

providing precise ETAs on request

Improve communications among all

members of your delivery team in th

ofce and the eld Gather and centralize customized

delivery data

Build protability through optimized

delivery management


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Automatically integrate operational

data captured in the field back into the

planning systemto create an even more

accurate plan tomorrow Disseminate projected and actual deliv-

ery information in real-time to provide

immediate updates for customers

MobileCast ensures that dispatching can

work more efficiently to enforce your plan

throughout daily operations.

Driving Excellence

Your drivers will welcome the addition of

MobileCast as a no-hassles tool to help

boost performance and productivity. With

its real-time mobile communications and

GPS capabilities, MobileCast eliminates

lost time due to unclear directions, routing

detours, or customer complications. Inaddition, companies can take advantage of

a range of wireless hardware devices that

provide such critical capabilities as:

Barcode scanning

Immediate line-item reconciliation

Signature capture

Instant receipt of new delivery instruc-

tions and alerts

Directions to the next destination point

from either the previous stop or based

on current vehicle location

Approximately 4% of a route needs to be re-sequenced, and MobileCast

allows us to stay on top of these stops so they are not forgotten. Before, we

did not know what deliveries were skipped until the routes came back atthe end of the day. Now we watch as they happen and proactively contact

the customer to make alternate arrangements. Its revolutionary.

Mark Booth, Project LeadSouthern Wine and Spirits of America, Inc.

With MobileCast, staying on top of your en roudelivery operations couldnt be easier.MobileCalets you manage by exception by monitoring theprogress in real time, instantly letting you know ifparticular driver is off-route and missing time winIn addition, a powerful mapping feature helps youcompare individual route plans versus actualroutes taken.

Your drivers in the eld can take advantage ofMobileCasts powerful but exible GPS-basedcommunication options,including handhelds thaprovide an electronic manifest showing eachsuccessive stop and related instructions. Uponarrival, your driver simply clicks the arrivebutton to notify dispatch of his status beforeproceeding on his route.


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Roadnet Info Center

Knowledge for Transportation Excellence

If transportation is your biggest investment,

then your daily operations should be an

open book. However, the challenge is

making that informationboth historical

and real-timeavailable at any given

moment throughout your company,

without endlessly reprinting stacksof quickly aging reports. Now an

overview of each deliverys progress is

accessible through Roadnet Info Center. By

tapping into both the planned routing and

real-time tracking data generated by the

RoadnetTransportation Suite, Roadnet

Info Center provides a full spectrum of

critical reporting tools for management,

sales, operations, customer service and

other decision makers in your organization.

Easily integrated into your companys

existing intranet, Roadnet Info Center doesnot require special installation or a separate

server, and can even reside on an individual

desktop PC. Once installed, it can be

customized quickly to meet your login and

security requirements, set up user accounts

and establish database configurations.

Immediate Support for Decision Making

As an enterprise-wide tool that supports

up-to-the-minute decision making, Roadnet

Info Center provides your internal audience

with critical historical information such as:

Route information for any route, anyday or any stop

Stop locations, including customer

name, ID, driver, order number and

date range

Daily summary statistics, covering

missed time windows, off-day deliveries,

less than minimum and equipment and

driver utilization

Visual charts to compare daily costs and

trends using plan, actual, plan vs. actual,

date range and other summary stats

Sales and service historiesThis information and more is available at

your desktop, eliminating the need to waste

time and materials in distributing paper

copies of transportation reports.

Real-Time Tracking and Response

In addition, Roadnet Info Center can serve

as a powerful platform for your customer

service department by providing instant

access to pickup and delivery status and

accurate customer delivery or appointment

times. Reporting features include:

Live stop locations, with route status,

delivery status, estimated arrival/

departure, actual arrival/departure,

consignee and delivery quantity

Planned and projected arrival and

departure times

Line-item details for each pickup

or delivery

A live daily scoreboard that posts

real-time statistics as they occur,

covering delivery status, missed timewindows, OS&D (over, short and

damaged) and skipped stops

Vehicle locations that show current

position vs. route plan

Driver communications, including

instant messaging and directions

With MobileCast, we can make

sure the route is being pulled

the way we say it needs to

be by the route professional,

while Roadnet Info Center give

greater overall visibility to our

routing day.

Scott Ward, Routing MaNovel


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By capturing live MobileCast data, Roadnet Info Centers Vehicle Locatorallowsyou to view the real-time or historical status of any of your en route deliveries scaled tothe territory you want to review. With this dynamic mapping feature, you can instantlydetermine the progress of individual drivers, including what stops hes already made andstill needs to make. Most importantly, you can instantly assess if your drivers are deliveringto plan or are off-route.

Roadnet Info Center At A Glance

This enterprise-wide, decision-making

application can help you:

Make all key company transportation

data instantly available to management

and staff

Enhance response time to customer

inquiries for routing and delivery

information

Maintain constant linkage between the

front ofce, the warehouse and your

customers

Analyze delivery performance for each

individual customer over a given

time period

Provide both historical and real-timeinformation in an actionable format

Manage by exception, agging only

information that is off-plan

Reduce costs by eliminating the need for

paper documentation

Ensure service at every stop.Tapping into both Roadnet and MobileCast data,

Roadnet Info Center gives you the ability to track deliveries as they happen in realtime along individual routes. Get immediate plan versus actual status updates onsuch stop-related issues as early or late delivery times, damaged goods, ordered/delivered, or over/short.

Whats the score?The Roadnet Info Center offers you a broad choice of managementtools, including scoreboards that provide a complete overview of Sales and ServiceHistory for each of your customers. By selecting an individual customer, you can gainimmediate access into such key information as planned versus actual stats in arrival anddeparture times, designated deliveries versus off-day deliveries, daily on-time versus latedeliveries, and other critical service details.


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FleetLoader

Loading for Ideal Vehicle Utilization

For todays beverage distributors, the

challenge begins not on the road, but in

the warehouse. Thats where you must

determine how to best organize and load

a wide range of merchandise (including

those SKUs with incompatible sizes) into

different types of vehicles to meet a varietyof delivery needs. Even on a good day, the

complications of such an operation can be

overwhelming.

Thats why many of the nations leading

beverage distributors dont make a move

without FleetLoader. Designed to meet the

specific needs of beverage warehouse and

delivery operations, FleetLoader is a scal-

able software solution that can streamline

every step of the loading process, exchang-

ing manual guesswork for clearly defined

goals and outcomes.

Best of all, FleetLoader brings a new

standard of consistency, reliability and

customer service to your loading opera-

tions. Every time a vehicle rolls away from

the warehouse, youre assured that its

loaded to capacity for efficient delivery and

minimal breakage.

Optimizing Your Operation

As an industry-leading application,

FleetLoader can be immediately configured

to fit the dynamics of your operation.

Loading both bulk and bay vehicles?

Juggling warehouse versus driver-friendly

strategies? Need to put pre-built orders into

the mix? Its no problem with FleetLoader.

You start by selecting a loading methodol-

ogy thats your best operational fit, and

then design loads (including pre-building,

staging and exclusions) that integrate

seamlessly into final loading and routing.

Effective graphical views with drag-and-

drop capabilities allow you to analyze and

optimize loads by stop and SKU down

to the individual truck, while calculating

capacities with absolute accuracy. Whats

more, FleetLoaders advanced systemsautomatically calculate the best mixing and

stacking of products in a given load, so that

the possibility of breakage is dramatically

reduced. The result? Your pick sheets get

to the warehouse floor sooner, your trucks

are checked out and on the road faster, and

your customers are happier.

Accountability from Start to Finish

Need the proper paperwork to create and

track loads and deliveries? FleetLoader

provides a broad selection of reports

that identify and document all aspects of

loading, verifying and delivering products.

Create pallet-build reports that reflect

restrictions or exceptions. Produce pick

sheets that boost productivity across the

board. Generate Load Truck Diagrams,

Load Validations, Driver Check-Out Sheets,

Stop Lists and more. Plus, FleetLoader

works flawlessly with your current order

entry system, and interfaces directly with

UPS Logistics Technologies Roadnet.

We load driver-friendly, and to

do that we need an order shee

for the warehouse workers wh

prepare the orders by stop and

then forward it to the warehou

FleetLoader creates pick sheets

with big, bold text that our

pickers appreciate.

Dr. Jeff GoweWil Fische


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FleetLoader At A Glance

Created specically for beveragedistributors, this versatile software

solution helps you:

Analyze and optimize beverage vehicle

load planning and building

Accommodate a variety of loading

strategiespallet building, bay loading,

warehouse- or driver-friendly and

hybridsfor multiple types of routes

Create load designs that decrease load/

unload times while reducing breakage

through proper mixing and stacking

Maximize protability through reduced

overtime and optimized resource

utilization

Pre-build orders throughout the day

to be picked, built, pre-staged and

allocated to the correct route and truck

Generate reports and directions covering

all aspects of load and delivery

FleetLoaders range of tools gives you theadvantage in creating balanced loads everytime.Through the Pallet View, you can buildindividual pallets that can decrease load/unloadtimes while reducing breakage thanks to optimalmixing and stacking. Analyze weight distribution,unassigned SKUs, bay capacity and more, all ata glance.

Take a fresh look at optimizing your vehiclescapacities with FleetLoaders Truck Prole.This dynamic graphic view lets you determinethe best strategy for loading bay trucks accordingto their bay-by-bay capacities. You can also takeadvantage of a Bay Editor that lets you look atwhat-if alternatives by manually reconguringbay loads based on volume.

FleetLoaders powerful reporting capabilitiesprovide you with the accurate paperworkyou needto share information immediately with your warehouseemployees. By generating such critical documentsas this Loading Sheet , youre assured of complete

accountability while enhancing productivity.


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Each day brings changes in managing your

transportation business. Keeping up with

the speed of business, while providing high

levels of customer service can make all of

the difference in your bottom line. You

need a partnerone that can help you

leverage your unique strengths whileproviding you with the insight to develop

even more of an advantage in your

marketplace. A partner that understands

your operations from the loading dock to

your customers front door; and one that

will be with you for all of the miles along

the way. You need results and a trusted

partnerUPS Logistics Technologies.

Whether your delivery operations involve

beverages, foodservice, dairy, bakery, paper,

medical supplies, fuel oil and propane, or

other products, UPS Logistics Technologieshas a solution for youbased on decades

of solid research and experience within

your industry.

As a strategic business unit of UPS, weve

made a name for ourselves as the provider

of choice for last mile transportation

management solutions. Now, through our

evolving RoadnetTransportation Suite,

we continue to deliver on that promise,

through global solutions that integrateterritory planning, street-level route

optimization, mobile delivery execution,

real-time wireless dispatch, and

GPS tracking.

There are many forks in the road ahead

whatever direction you chooseno matter

the distancewell keep pace with your

goals. Our goals align with your needs

through support of your strategic vision

and your bottom line with advanced

transportation and logistics technologies

that build value and service.

UPS Logistics Technologiesa trusted

provider of transportation management

solutions for over 25 years.

With the Right Partner Success is Inevitable

UPS Logistics Technologies and You


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