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• SAP Charts New Frontiers in Transportation Management
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  SAP AG announced it is gearing its transportation management applications to help companies further optimize revenue across the operations that currently account for up to 60 percent of overall logistics spending. Building on its supply chain applications and road map for adaptive business networks, SAP is embedding its existing transportation software with new capabilities enabling companies to sense and respond quickly and profitably to the fast pace of change in today's competitive transportation environment.
  
  Adrian Gonzalez, ARC Advisory Group, commented, "Globalization, outsourcing and shrinking cycle times are adding risk, cost and complexity to transportation operations. Companies must recognize that transportation management does not exist in a vacuum. It's a process that interfaces with a variety of other business functions, including order management, purchasing, warehouse management, customer service and financials. Companies that take an end-to-end, process-centric perspective will achieve greater financial and operational success."