Inbound Logistics | July 2007 | Digital Issue

Proven Railcar Management Solutions keeping customers informed of the location, status, and ETAs of critical inventory.

The Customer Louisiana Pacific (LP) is one of the leading manufacturers of premium building products in North America with 2005 sales in excess of $2.6 billion. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, LP produces products that build America’s homes at 29 manufacturing plants throughout the United States, Canada, and Chile. Committed to a solid corporate foundation, innovative, ethical, and safe business practices, and popular products, LP is known across the building industry for its quality, dependability, and consistency as a respected company with good people. The Situation Supply chain management in a security- rich, post 9/11 world places more emphasis on tracking inventory— making the availability of accurate data more critical. LP found it difficult to obtain key movement information when they needed it to make production and transportation decisions quickly. LP also recognized tracking rail cars was crucial to managing their investment in private equipment. They needed a solution that would integrate transportation and location information directly into their internal system so they could use one tool, with no additional training. The Solution Transentric’s ShipmentVision Proactive Monitoring provides for: • Collection of CLM and carrier status information

• Unique programming logic provides dynamic, “Smart” ETAs that are calculated as new movement events are captured for shipments en route. • ShipmentVision personnel review events for accuracy—updating data while interfacing with customer service personnel at the railroads for current status information on delays and bad orders. • Keeping pace with the daily demands of today’s supply chain industry, ShipmentVision’s custom reports allows users to quickly identify key information and “manage by exception,” while also providing historical reports to prompt review of past performance. Integrating clean and complete data in the desired timetable—whether real–time, hourly, or daily—and into any application or system is at the core of all Transentric solutions.

• Status information, including manual upgrading of data for those events not automatically received • Identification of shipment issues and exceptions by the Transentric Customer Service team • Notification of unsolved issues • Late shipment arrival notification • Car return ETAs • Exception reporting geared to fit LP’s daily operational processes • Analytical reports that help LP to ensure accuracy and availability of private equipment One tool = ShipmentVision. Integrating accurate, real-time data, and custom reporting into LP’s internal system means no training required. Product Overview ShipmentVision delivers accurate, real–time data, and custom reporting for rapid decision support.

The Results Problem solved. Another happy customer. Louisiana Pacific (LP) retrieves quality rail data to better manage their fleet without leaving their internal system of choice.

With Transentric’s ShipmentVision, LP is: • Identifying potential shipment management issues • Resolving issues before customers are impacted • Finding creative solutions to ensure supply chain fluidity • Supporting long term goals with past performance reports • Ensuring decisions are made with accurate data

Integrating accurate, real-time data into their internal systems and leveraging the support of the ShipmentVision team. Transentric…making it simple for our customers to do what they do best.

For more information about Transentric visit our website @ www.transentric.com or give us a call @ 1-800-877-0328

Transentric 1400 Douglas Street Suite 0840

Omaha, NE 68179 www.transentric.com 1-800-877-0328

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