FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mary Kelly, Media Relations
Phone: 609-252-8160
E-mail:kelly@alk.com
Fax: 609-252-8166
PC*MILER 23.1 Now Integrates with
Oracle® Transportation Management 6.1
Princeton, New Jersey — July 23, 2010 - ALK Technologies today announced its industry-standard PC*MILER® Solutions now integrate with Oracle® Transportation Management 6.1. Oracle Transportation Management is a global transportation management system that helps streamline planning, execution, financial settlement, visibility, and business process automation across all modes of transportation.
The integration involves numerous PC*MILER products, including PC*MILER|Streets, PC*MILER|Rail, and PC*MILER|Worldwide to provide Oracle users with accurate, up-to-date routing and distance calculations. PC*MILER products were demonstrated during the Oracle Transportation Management Special Interest Group conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 14th-16th.
Oracle Transportation Management delivers robust transportation planning and execution capabilities to shippers and third party logistics providers. It integrates and helps streamline all aspects of transportation management on a single application across all modes of transportation, from full truckload to complex multi-leg air, ocean, and rail shipments.
Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 enables lower transportation costs and improved customer service, and provides flexible, global fulfillment options. It includes Oracle Fleet Management, which helps administer private fleet and common carrier networks on a single platform, allowing increased asset utilization, lower costs, and reduced environmental impact.
"ALK is pleased that PC*MILER 23.1 now integrates with Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 to bring its customers one of the industry's most accurate, truck-specific routing and mileage solutions," said Craig Fiander, ALK's Vice President, Marketing — PC*MILER Solutions. "Oracle users will also benefit from PC*MILER's rail and multi-modal proficiency, reliable transit times, and precise street-level routing. ALK is proud to be associated with Oracle and offer its world class, worldwide routing, distance and mapping features through Oracle Transportation Management 6.1."
ALK Technologies is a Gold level-member in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). Oracle participated in the sixth annual ALK Transportation Technology Summit in Princeton, N.J. this past April.
"Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 is the leading global transportation management platform that enables companies to manage both private fleet and common carrier networks on a single platform," said Derek Gittoes, Oracle Vice President, Logistics Product Strategy. "By extending our offering with PC*MILER's robust and accurate distance calculation capabilities, we can continue to help customers achieve their goals for increased asset utilization, lower transportation costs and reduced environmental impact."
For more information on PC*MILER and Oracle Transportation Management 6.1 visit www.pcmiler.com and www.oracle.com/applications/scm/transportation-management.
About ALK Technologies
Since 1979, ALK Technologies has developed innovative mobile navigation and transportation technology solutions. ALK's award-winning CoPilot Live GPS software is the navigation based services platform of choice for mobile operators, hardware OEMs and systems integrators globally. ALK's PC*MILER routing, mileage and mapping solutions are used by over 22,000 transportation, logistics and manufacturing companies worldwide. For more information on ALK Technologies, visit: www.alk.com or www.alk.eu.com.
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