1. Increase efficiencies and productivity through:

• Order accuracy
  
• Inventory accuracy
  
• Picking and shipping accuracy
  
• Order Fill rate
  
• Trailer tracking and control
  
• Labour productivity
  
• Utilization of logistics assets
  
• Increased flexibility and responsiveness
  
• KPI reporting
• Lot control
  
• QA and product recall
  
• Improved decision making

2. Increase supply chain visibility with:

• Real time information
  
• Web-based visibility
  
• Executive dashboard reporting

3. Reduce costs through:

• Activity based costing
  
• Freight optimization and consolidation
  
• Labour cost reduction through labour management software and engineering standards

4. Allow for proactive management of your account through event management.

• Provides alerts for predefined thresholds and critical events.
  

• Picking and Packing
• Pro-Active Replenishment
  
• Demand Replenishment
  
• Triggered Replenishment
  
• Directed Activities
  
• Order Consolidation
  
• Kitting and BOM
  
• Value Added Services
  
• RF Functionality
  
• RF Trailer Shunting
  
• RF Receiving RF Cross Dock
  
• RF Putaway (Interleaved)
  
• RF Picking (Interleaved)
  
• RF Cycle Counts - Interleaving
  
• RF Loading

MCL's Transportation Management System enables MCL, on behalf of our clients, to increase control over operations, enhance customer service and improve efficiency. Transportation management provides real-time tools needed to accurately build, route, assign and track shipments. T.M.S. is fundamentally built as a routing manager. Orders are managed in a sophisticated environment, exposing the most cost efficient method of transportation. In addition to this basic use, the T.M.S. can provide optional value added features such as:

• Load building - an automatic analysis tool for sequentially building loads using real world constraints
  
• Mode selection - where possible, optional carrier methods can be selected automatically
  
• Least cost carrier selection - an automatic carrier selection tool for choosing the carrier best suited for the area of shipment given the criteria set up. The comparison method is done electronically.
  
• Electronic load tendering - a tool for automatically tendering loads to carriers and receiving confirmation of acceptance.
  
• Shipment consolidation - a tool used to determine if shipping several small shipments into a single multiple stop full load shipment.
  
• Interface with other systems for security and confirmation (Yard and Warehouse systems)
  
• KPI management - using the captured data, reporting can be developed to determine carrier compliance, on-time performance and other important KPI measurements.

We are able to manage the life cycle of an order including: order entry, planning, tendering, assigning carriers, tracking status, paying carriers and managing claims. Using our transportation management expertise we re-engineer transportation and distribution networks to maximize efficiency. Fully integrated with Warehouse Management and Labour Management, T.M.S. also provides accurate and timely information throughout our client's logistics network, including the ability to change orders and to have the T.M.S. automatically updated.

MCL's Labour Management System facilitates the management of the manpower resources by allowing us to measure productivity in real time by:

• Individual
  
• Team
  
• Shift
  
• Building

We are able to report on actual results compared to productivity benchmarks established which can be based either on local engineered standards or industry best practices. Monitoring the use of our manpower resources helps us to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and productivity enhancements.

Our systems allow MCL to provide a view of metrics across the full enterprise using:

Provides drill-down access to data in W.M.S., L.M.S., T.M.S. and Y.M.S. It offers MCL's customers real-time integrated end-to-end visibility across their entire supply chain networks. Providing access to item details supporting both research and investigation, LENS supports the Scorecard "dashboard" and Event Management reporting.

E-vista is a browser-based application that enables customers to have real time 24 hour visibility.

E-vista enables:

• Online queries of shipment orders,
  
• Receipt notices, inventory balances,
  
• Transaction and invoices over a secure web connection.

Customers can also use e-vista to create orders and receipt notices online.

Scorecard is a web-based tool that supports logistics analysis and decision-making. It provides reporting on a wide range of metrics including:

Provides alerts to pre-defined thresholds and critical events. Event Management:

• Manages key metrics in real-time
  
• Notifies and reports metrics status relative to benchmark levels
  
• Has configurable alarm notifications for interested parties
  
• Has automated response and notification

• MCL supports all standard E.D.I. transaction sets and can develop custom sets as required

• We have the ability to exchange the following ANSI standard E.D.I. documents:
  
• 940 - Warehouse Shipping Order
  
• 943 - Warehouse Stock Transfer Shipment Advice
  
• 944 - Warehouse Stock Transfer Receipt Advice
  
• 945 - Warehouse Shipping Advice
  
• 846 - Inventory Inquiry / Advice
  
• 856 - Inbound and outbound
  
• 852 - Product Activity Data
  
• 810 - Invoice
  
• 850 - Purchase Order
  
• 880 - Grocery Products Invoice
  
• 875 - Grocery Products Purchase Order
  
• 888 - Product Master Changes
  
• 947 - Direct Reporting and File Update of Inventory adjustments (capable of doing, however no current client has requested)

These documents can be exchanged in any versions from 3020 to 4020. Both VICS and UCS.

• MCL also has the ability to trade non-standard E.D.I. documents. These are usually file formats that are mutually designed and developed by MCL and our customer.
  

• MCL has the ability to transmit and receive E.D.I. data in the following formats:
  
• Via Value Added Network (VAN)
  
• FTP via a VPN connection through the internet
  
• FTP via dedicated communication line between MCL and our customer
  
• Internet EMAIL
  
• Web enabled access

Our systems provide a very diverse and robust reporting structure. The following reports are available:

MCL believes that KPIs are an important aspect of control and commits to be accountable for agreed KPIs. We measure, track, report and investigate any areas of concern identifying root causes and developing action plans to correct.

MCL works with clients to jointly develop KPIs, which will be focused on continuous improvement, which will be supported by ongoing communication and planning sessions. Our KPIs are integrated into day-to-day operations in order to drive efficiencies and productivity gains.

The following outlines examples of some of the KPIs currently being used today:

• Inventory accuracy
  
• Case fill rate
  
• Order fill rate
  
• Line fill rate
  
• On-time shipping
  
• On-time to Request arrival date (RAD)
  
• Shipping accuracy
  
• Warehouse damages
  
• Warehouse losses of finished goods inventory
  
• Stock Rotation
  
• Labour
  
• Space Utilization
  
• Productivity