Transportation Costing Group Announces Next Generation Product

Rockville, Md. – July 28, 2011 -- Transportation Costing Group (TCG), the premier provider of Activity-Based Costing and Profitability Management solutions for truckload and less-than-truckload (LTL) motor carriers, today announced the availability of the next generation of its highly acclaimed Cost Information SystemTM, CIS/NG®. This is its most advanced Costing and Profitability Management solution for LTL carriers. The new software provides all of the same applications and functionality of the current LTL Cost Information System (LTL/CISTM) yet with improved productivity and scalability to match capacity and performance needs.

“A primary design goal for CIS/NG was to help users be more productive with our system while preserving the accuracy and specificity for which LTL/CIS is known,” said Ken Manning, president of TCG. “CIS/NG offers very substantial performance improvements in all aspects of LTL costing operations.”

CIS/NG combines LTL motor carrier traffic and financial information, such as freight bills and user-built shipment description files, with carrier and/or industry performance standards to develop the cost of individual shipments. Results of shipment cost analyses are fully presented by CIS/NG, and can be expanded to include any or all activities, such as pickup cost detail.

The new CIS/NG cost analysis software processes data more productively in several ways, including:

Consolidating functions in a single Costing and Reporting application so users to cost shipments, generate traffic reports and import external shipment data within the same application.
Costing and reporting operations that can run in the background, allowing continued use of the system while longer running jobs are performed.
A very sophisticated search and replace functionality for shipment files.
Several different ways to create representative sample shipments files for re-costing purposes. Additional flexibility when extracting traffic shipments for re-costing is provided during report design and after a traffic report has been generated.
Sampling of traffic extracts for re-costing, allowing for the creation of a user-selected, targeted representative sample of bills from individual report grouping levels that is used to generate weight and revenue variances.
A Dynamic Grouping, a new type of reporting that allows users to report on traffic without pre-setting report criteria.

ABOUT TCG

Transportation Costing Group is the provider of the most widely used suite of Profitability Management Tools and activity-based costing models to the motor carrier industry. TCG provides models tailored to specific carrier operations. Information on services offered by TCG can be obtained by contacting (800) 328-9700 or info@tcgcis.com. For general product information please visit www.tcgcis.com.