RateLinx has been fortunate to have a strong relationship with the Prophet 21 Worldwide User Group (P21WWUG) for several years, providing logistics software solutions for many of its members. This non-profit organization is comprised of more than 600 users that utilize the Prophet 21 ERP manufactured by Activant Solutions.

On July 28, 2009, the P21WWUG held a webinar in which RateLinx unveiled a special program designed specifically to leverage their members’ collective annual LTL freight activity to drive down pricing on LTL freight rates and provide other needed services (thus eliminating the need for LTL providers). Members choosing to enroll in this program receive reduced rates for LTL shipping, freight audit and payment services, as well as a whole suite of transportation technology at little to no up-front cost, including ShipLinx TMS, ShipLinx Customer Service Inquiry Module (CSI), and the RateLinx Dashboard. RateLinx also provides seamless integration to Prophet 21 for shipping and reconciling carrier invoices. With ShipLinx, members can enter or scan pick tickets and ship any mode (parcel, LTL, TL, etc.) or carrier of their choice for domestic and international shipments. Once the shipment is processed, ShipLinx generates carrier documentation, labels, packing list, and a file containing shipment information that is pulled into Prophet 21 to update the order and automatically confirm the shipment in a one-step process. Prior to RateLinx, shipment integration with Prophet 21 was done in a three-step process and was very time consuming and inefficient. The RateLinx Dashboard provides members with key performance indicator (KPI) tracking on their actual freight payment information with charts and graphics, helping to reduce, monitor, and control freight spending near real-time, a capability that is not available in most ERP systems.

With RateLinx, members can now get everything they need for shipping (transportation technology and logistics services) from a single provider – market-level carrier pricing, anywhere-to-anywhere electronic routing, shipment tendering, freight auditing, general ledger (GL) coding, freight payment, accurate reporting, and graphical KPI tracking.

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MONTREAL, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ — Business & Decision, the international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) Company, specializing in Business Intelligence (BI), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and e-Business, announces the launch of RLinteract (www.rlinteract.com), a solution dedicated to the Distribution and Manufacturing industries, and based on Microsoft and RateLinx technologies.

Business & Decision, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has already established an exclusive partnership with the ‘best-in-class’ freight management service and logistics technology provider, RateLinx. RateLinx will fully integrate its products and services solution with the following Microsoft technologies: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007(R) and Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007(R).

RLinteract is a pre-integrated, pre-tested, no-risk freight solution for the Distribution and Manufacturing industries. RLinteract provides immediate monetary savings of at least 10% against business freight expense, along with daily visibility for each freight cost incurred by an organization. This solution allows an organization to control both its outbound and inbound freight charges, while affording the RLinteract user with greater savings potential than a traditional third-party logistics (3PL) provider offering.

‘We have spent more than a year evaluating solutions that could complement our already extensive portfolio of software and services. With the addition of RateLinx to Business & Decision’s RLinteract solution, we now have the best offering in the marketplace’, says Sylvain Thauvette, CEO, Business & Decision North America.

‘RLinteract comes at an ideal time to support our current and prospective customers in weathering the global economic crisis that is affecting everyone. To further help customers, Business & Decision is offering a ‘pay as you save’ option that allows companies to pay for RLinteract implementation services out of their actual freight savings.’ says Frank Lolli, Vice President, Microsoft Operations, Business & Decision North America.

‘Business & Decision and Microsoft certainly did their homework,’ says Steven Shoemaker, a Co-Founder of RateLinx from their Brookfield, Wisconsin headquarters. ‘CFO’s and business leaders worldwide have been looking for these capabilities for a long time. Business & Decision and Microsoft have an extremely compelling offering, and we’re pleased to be a part of it.’

Shannon Vaillancourt, also a Co-Founder of RateLinx, adds ‘Having a pre-integrated, pretested solution with Business & Decision will now allow Distribution and Manufacturing companies the ability to enjoy the benefits of our popular ShipLinx product faster and at a much higher level than was ever possible before RLinteract.’

About Business & Decision

Business & Decision is an international Consulting and Systems Integration (CSI) company. It is a leader in Business Intelligence (BI), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and also a major player in e-Business and Enterprise Information Management (EIM) contributing to the success of customer projects by driving maximum business performance. The company has a reputation for functional and technological expertise and has forged partnerships with all of the key technology vendors.

Located in 20 countries, Business & Decision currently employs more than 2,900 people worldwide.

Additional information is available at www.businessdecision.com.

About RateLinx

RateLinx (LRM Technologies, LLC) is a privately-held company specializing in less-than-truckload (LTL) optimization, freight payment and auditing, as well as being a recognized leading manufacturer of integrated logistics technology (small parcel, LTL, truckload, international, etc.), while managing and/or servicing freight in the billions of dollars annually for thousands of shippers domestically and internationally.

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