Our Capabilities

Shippers Commonwealth is the premiere provider of advanced transportation planning and management systems, offering these Transportation Management Systems (TMS) on a subscription or “pay as you go” basis (or alternative perpetual licensing programs) to shippers of any and all sizes.

We offer a full range of optimal shipment planning and execution systems as provider of world class Load Control Center programs and as exclusive Application Service Provider (“ASP”) for the renowned RedPrairie (formerly McHugh) TMS engine, as augmented and extended by the ShipComm Suite of value-added products.

Our Offering Program for Shippers: We set the stage as the first Full Service Provider and ASP in the TMS market, bringing complete load consolidation, optimized mode and carrier selection, load linking, and automated execution (Web or EDI load tendering, shipment tracking, and payment/settlement) previously only available on a capital purchase basis for Global 1000 clients. We are also renowned for our transportation optimization modeling and consulting expertise on identifying new opportunities and then helping you execute them for freight cost and personnel savings, and for improving delivery to market for you – on-time, defect-free, and at the lowest landed cost.

The Company We Keep: Our Shippers Commonwealth program offers subscription and ASP solutions using our proven extended transportation automation programs (including our world-class TMS) as employed for enterprise-wide automated transportation management by both Fortune 100 and mid-market customers. Our program is proven at such major shipper clients as Sonoco, Alcoa, Energizer, Graphic Packaging, North American Salt/Compass Minerals, Jeld-Wen, Johns Manville, Safelite, General Cable, Four Seasons Automotive, UPS/Overnite, and Metro Canada Logistics among our many manufacturing and distribution customers; and with our strong retail solutions track record with key clients such as Bon-Ton Stores, Stage Stores/Peebles, Boscov’s Department Stores, The Sports Authority, and Garden Ridge Stores.

Our World Class Partners: The Shippers Commonwealth organization is the premiere partner for the “Powered by RedPrairie” program, using this proven engine we helped develop for our value-added and comprehensive TMS suite. We also have key partnerships with leading 3PL’s in U.S. and Canada, and are long-term alliance partners of SMC and other leading niche providers in the TMS world, where ShipComm offers an integrated “supermarket” of our own products and “best of breed” solutions from among our partners. We offer leadership in advanced TMS solutions as provided on the most affordable and flexible terms, for shippers of any and all sizes (inbound or outbound).

Our Expert Team: Our firm is managed by renowned logistics leaders from leading Fortune 1000 companies who pioneered TMS and Load Control Center programs at such leading firms as Westinghouse, McHugh/RedPrairie, General Electric, James River/Georgia Pacific, Reynolds Metals/Alcoa, BellSouth Wireless, MeadWestvaco, Stage Stores, Kimberly Clark, Overnite, and Appleton Papers. This executive logistics solution team together have successfully developed and managed over 100 major automated Load Control Centers throughout North America.

Our Capabilities: Shippers Commonwealth is the first ASP in the TMS market to offer a full range Load Control Center system for every aspect of freight management. This complete TMS includes optimal load consolidation (our Load Builder program), routing, mode selection, and carrier assignment for shipment planning, and an integrated shipment execution network for electronic load tendering and shipment tracking, as well as optional freight audit and payment program.

The Shippers Commonwealth solutions suite employs role-based web applications, including Digital Carrier™ for load tendering and acceptance, and Digital Tracker™ for customer service and distribution center visibility and interaction. We are also the originators of multi-shipper trading partner network programs, for load linking and load sharing, which we are building with major shippers in forming new multi-shipper communities such as with our leading edge Caravan Network™ program. Our new Vendor Logistics Portal™ offering is now used as an industry standard by over 25,000 trading partners in offering automated OnLine Shipment Routing Requests over the Internet for inbound shipment planning between suppliers and their consignee, for enabling inbound consolidation and shipment management, as well as fully supporting returns and non-ERP outbound shipment processing with our TMS.

ShipComm is the proven leader in Transportation On Demand Automation solutions….where we remain big enough to serve, yet small enough to care. We invite you to contact us on how we can quantify benefits of shipment automation programs for your company, and how we tailor a program that best meets your needs.