Shell Chemicals to Implement Elemica’s New Slot Booking Solution To Increase Productivity and Reduce Wait Times

Enhanced Logistics Suite Incorporates Carrier Booking, Quick Scheduling, Shipment Status & Business Intelligence

Exton, PA - February 25, 2009 - Elemica, the industry-leading B2B supply chain execution network, announces that Shell Chemicals* is to implement the new slot booking application within Elemica’s newly enhanced Logistics Solution. Slot Booking allows shippers and carriers to schedule appointments and book time slots at loading and unloading facilities, which streamlines their loading workflows and reduces delays and wait times for carriers resulting in lower assessorial charges and fewer scheduling resources. The web-based application can function stand-alone or integrate with Elemica’s Logistics Solution, which includes Terminal and Warehouse, Road and Ocean.

"Anything we can do to speed up the loading and unloading process, decrease dwell time, reduce errors and ensure we have the right personnel, equipment, and space available for carriers, the happier they will be,” said Mark Avery, Global Land Logistics Development Manager, Shell Chemicals. “Elemica’s Slot Booking solution makes scheduling easier, which fosters better carrier relationships."

Slot Booking provides visibility for shippers and carriers on availability of dock, labor, and warehouse configurations/schedules and detailed load information. It validates that appointments follow the shipper’s business rules and site setup. In addition, the solution provides pro-active alerting to both shippers and carriers when new appointments, modifications of appointments, or cancellations are entered in the system. By ensuring all supply chain partners are involved in the process and have visibility into requested, scheduled and rescheduled dock appointments, Elemica’s Slot Booking application optimizes road carrier collaboration within your logistics operations while improving productivity.

In addition, Elemica’s enhanced Road Solution provides complete real-time road booking, execution, and visibility capabilities that improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency of communications between transportation management and logistics service providers.

“The enhancement of our Road solution and the addition of Slot Booking means a very robust Logistics solution for accurate and timely collaboration between our clients and their logistics services providers. This is critical for the security, reliability, and cost effectiveness of the supply chain operation,” said Mike McGuigan, CEO of Elemica. “Companies that continue to use the phone or fax are overwhelmed with manual effort, and the process is prone to significant errors. Shippers using Elemica’s enhanced Road solution and/or Slot Booking substantially increase productivity and get their goods where they need to be - faster. This reduces inventory stock-outs and improves the bottom line.”

Elemica’s Logistics Suite, built on the Elemica Connected Solution, connects organizations seamlessly to their logistics service providers regardless of mode, providing immediate access to information and greater management over providers’ performance. With greater control over their logistics network and processes, clients eliminate errors, reduce inventory, lower capital costs and improve responsiveness to customers’ needs.