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Technology Development Efforts
- Multi-layered e-commerce enabled distribution system
- Algorithms to simplify real-time quoting of product and delivery services in highly localized markets
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Unique Features
- Localized results for product and delivery costs
- Quoting of a variety of modes of transport, both pickup and delivery options, delivery and storage options,
product and form substitutions
- Real-time response, and several algorithms helpful in managing analysis complexity
- Coupling of customer optimized distribution systems to back-end supplier interfaces
- Other potential enhancements have been indentified and filed
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Optimization Algorithms
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Patent Status
- Provisional patent filings 9/06 and 4/07
- Full PCT patent application 9/07
- Other technology not yet publicly available
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