Nulogx Updates OS/400-Based TMS Acquired from i2

Published: July 11, 2006

by Alex Woodie

Nulogx last week unveiled Transportation Management Suite (TMS) version 6.0, a new release of its OS/400-based logistics application for shippers, manufacturers, and third-party logistics (3PL) providers. With this release, the Toronto, Canada, company has delivered a new dashboard interface, a new Web-enabled architecture, and various security enhancements.

Nulogx started life in 2002 as a logistics consulting company, and became a software vendor in 2004, when it acquired the intellectual property for the Transportation Control and Transportation Optimize applications from once high-flying i2 Technologies. Today, Nulogx develops its TMS exclusively on the OS/400 platform, where it focuses on business processes important in the logistics industry, including transportation modeling, bid collaboration, planning, execution, settlement, network optimization, and visibility.

Nulogx has made three improvements with TMS 6.0. These include a new dashboard interface that shows key performance metrics to users, thereby providing them with near instant feedback and insight into critical events occurring across the network. The second is the delivery of a Web-enabled architecture, which simplifies deployment and increases productivity, the company says. Lastly, the addition of role-based user profiles and other security enhancements are designed to ensure that TMS users and their trading partners are operating in a secure environment.

Expect Nulogx to keep the innovations coming beyond version 6.0, says Bob Morrow, president and chief executive of Nulogx. "This software release is the first of several planned steps by Nulogx to enable our 3PL and distribution customers to achieve distribution excellence," Morrow says. For more information, go to www.nulogx.com.