apart. Combine this technology with the high service levels you already provide, and you become highly differentiated in the eyes of your shipper customer.
What the DataFusion Suite includes: S
upply Chain technology is evolving faster than supply chains themselves now. As a transportation provider, your challenge is to stay one step ahead on the technology front, so you continue to have the ability to compete and win business from the best shippers. Our
job at McLeod Software is to help you accomplish that.
Every shipper expects a higher level of service, more information, and greater visibility in near real-time. They truly value adaptability and flexible connectivity from those transportation providers who can actually offer it.
McLeod Software is introducing DataFusion, our new supply chain connectivity framework for transportation providers. DataFusion is fully integral to your LoadMaster® and PowerBroker® systems, giving you access to the capabilities it provides for your daily work within the system.
Our strategy is to allow you to use the elements of this evolving framework that you need to create the specific services, communication, integration, visibility, and automation for your customers. It is the configurable connectivity framework you need to become the tier- one technology enabled transportation provider your shippers will prefer.
Access to fast, reliable, and customized information throughout the lifecycle of every shipment is the backbone of a successful technology-enabled supply chain. That is what we are going to put you in a position to offer your customers.
McLeod DataFusion leverages our integral, highly configurable EDI engine and expands the connectivity options far beyond simple EDI communications. DataFusion can help you model and implement a wide variety of connectivity solutions using web service API’s, now and in the future, it will support emerging technologies that could be adopted in digital supply chains, such as Blockchain.
By making your connection to the shipper’s supply chain accurate, fast, and adaptable, your company will stand
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• CustomerFusion includes the full set of EDI Engine capabilities in your current system.
• LogisticsFusion includes the full set of EDI for Logistics capabilities in your current system.
• IntercompanyFusion enables communications between separate legal entities in your company.
• ProFusion gives you a template editor for EDI and other types of formats you need to construct specific to a shipper.
• BorderFusion lets you implement cross border document communications like ACE/ACI
• FusionAPI gives you open web service API’s for building non-EDI communications with shippers and partners.
The McLeod DataFusion technology framework and tools bring you a broad set of connectivity capabilities.
• Sending and receiving shipment information in various formats over the lifecycle of that load
• Flexible user-defined configuration options to tailor shared shipment information to very specific partner or shipper requirements
• Web service-based API endpoint communication that still uses the full range of existing mapping functionality in your EDI Engine
• Data validation services to ensure accurate and correctly formatted shipment information
• The ability to review and reject on-hold load tenders and auto-accept loads based on rules and logic you construct
• Automatic communication of invoices and shipment statuses
• Auto acceptance of tenders based on order creation rules and lane commitments
• A robust transmission, monitoring and recovery process for every type of message
Stay tuned for more details about DataFusion! We expect to release this new framework with the next version of LoadMaster and PowerBroker.
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