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TECHNOLOGY * USA - ATA introduces Information Technology & Logistics Council
The American Trucking Associations announced this week that it has named its first officers of its newly-formed Information Technology & Logistics Council
Arlington,VA,USA -Logistics Management, by Jeff Berman -November 20, 2007: -- ... J. Braxton Hicks, senior vice president of corporate planning and development for Southeastern Freight Lines, Lexington, S.C.-based less-than-truckload carrier, will serve as the ITLC's first chair. And Vicki Schluter, vice president of information solutions for YRC Worldwide, will serve as vice chair... The ILTC, according to an ATA statement, is dedicated to supporting the interests of the trucking industry's information technology and logistics professionals, and it is committed to educating members, developing industry best practices and technology guidelines and providing legislative and regulatory advocacy programs... And in a more practical manner, Andrea Fischer, ITLC information manager, explained how some shippers are increasingly demanding that their carriers submit electronic invoices along with other basic back office functions that carriers deal with every day and have typically centered on paper-based processes for things like invoicing, as well as counting on telephone-based communications to track a truck's location. More shippers are demanding from their carriers that this information be more accessible through electronic methods, Fischer added... In terms of the types of best practices the ITLC will focus on, Snyder and Fischer cited the various languages that are used uniformly across the trucking industry such as EDI (electronic data interchange) as one example...
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