Service Offerings

Future Training
- · Allows accelerated timeline, eliminates travel expense
- · Minimizes operational disruption
Support & Upgrades
- · IT support more accessible
- · Application support is self-contained entity within planning department
- · Upgrade deployment at one location for entire enterprise
Executive Oversight
- · Single line of communication to executives for all corporate transportation operations
- · Executive visibility into operations and data
- · Consistent reporting
Standardization
- · Standards such as equipment capacity & delivery parameters more easily established and maintained
- · Executive support for change process more direct
Operational Expertise
- · Analyst level planners
- · Increased ability to perform stategic analysis
- · Consistent professional routing coverage

We have developed a proven methodology for centralizing any size transportation organization
- Create a structure and staffing for central transportation group
- Customize processes for central transportation group
- Execute technical migration from local to central
  - · Interfaces
  - · Testing
  - · Reporting
  - · Training
  - · Communication
Apollo experience — managed Fortune 100 distributor's implementation and centralization initiative
Centralization stats
- · Personnel
- · Initial average of 1.7 people per site performed routing and related Transportation Department functions
- · Centralized environment brought average to 0.4 routers per site, an elimination of 1.3 people per division
Routing results
Average cube per load increase of 280
- · Eliminated local influence over routing optimization methods and pre-set prejudices of how routing should be done
- · Professional, "detached" view of routing optimization by routers whose goals were to maintain customer service yet optimize routes
- · Increased average ability and skill of routing staff

Centralized routing group generates additional value
- · Unbiased metric reporting
- · Management of holiday schedules
- · Resource management (drivers and equipment) as well as other logistics functions
- · Strategic analysis of operational practices
- · Transportation feasibility studies
IT benefits
- · Eliminate the need to have specialized PC's spread throughout the enterprise
- · All PC's are in one place — PC reduction and support simplified

Training is critical to client success
- Initial training of new users
  - · As part of implementation of a new system
  - · As new users are brought into the organization
- Refresher training
  - · Help experienced users achieve maximum performance from the system
  - · Familiarize users with new features in upgrades
Apollo Logistics Solutions offers
- · Well-established curriculum
- · Highly-experienced trainers
Training curriculum
- · Hundreds of clients and consultants have been trained using a proven curriculum
- · Manuals focused on the functional needs of users
- · Formal classroom training
- · Day-to-day training alongside client load planners
Training experience
- · 1000's of hours of training experience
- · Apollo staff includes the only person involved in training on JDA Fleet Management™ (formerly TR™, NetWORKS Routing™) since its rollout
Apollo can offer classroom or on-the-job training to fit the specific needs of our clients

As the software has evolved into an enterprise application, the platform possibilities have also evolved
- · Continuity/consistency and speed of upgrades across the enterprise
- · System easily accessible from ANY PC that has an internet connection
- · Eliminates reliance on specialized DBA's or specialized database resources
- · Eliminates reliance on specialized application administrators
- · Easy enterprise-wide support — can analyze any instance from any PC including home or remote locations
- · If you currently have or choose to implement a metric reporting tool, a single source of data simplifies acquisition
- · Eliminate complicated and cumbersome support tools like PC anywhere, Citrix, etc.
- · Simplifies license management — Apollo owns peripheral support licenses; Citrix, SQL, etc.
- · JDA (formerly known as Manugistics) support and Apollo consultants have easy remote access to perform analysis
- · Access to the fastest production system and most robust fail-over architecture available without the infrastructure investment
- · Troubleshooting or refinement, collaboration, or optimization consulting can be easily coordinated with resource in different locations without travel expense
Technical / Architecture specs
- · Application hosted on multiple Dell servers
- · Connected to multiple SQL database servers
- · Continual mirroring for fail-over
- · Hosted by an industry-leading server farm (also hosts servers for banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, etc.)
- · Internet security (128 bit encryption) hosted by SBC
- · 2 live application servers will have a third fail-over server
- · This ENTIRE architecture is mirrored by a separate, identical architecture (backup) in a separate hosting facility in a separate city
Developed based on a proven production platform
Security is part of the platform architecture
- · Standard 128-bit encrypted communications
- · As safe as online banking

Apollo experience
- · Over 125 individual site implementations completed
- · Over 100 site upgrade projects
Key point
- · We've seen how everyone has done this, and we know first-hand what works and what doesn't
- · No company has more experience than Apollo with JDA (formerly known as Manugistics) JDA Fleet Management™ (formerly TR™, NetWORKS Routing™) implementations for private or dedicated fleets
JDA methodology
- · High dependence on client self-reliance
- · Main focus was to get software up and running successfully
Apollo methodology
- · Evolution of the JDA methodology
- · More focus on side-by-side implementation and training
- · Focus on business process change coordinated with software implementation for maximum benefit
- · More focus on client success and greater up-front benefits

If you've already implemented, we specialize in helping you drive maximum results from the system
- · “What if” analysis
- · Data integrity assessment
- · Road network validation or overhaul
- · Quantification of benefits from business process changes
- · Work side-by-side with clients to successfully implement and navigate recommended process changes
- · Work side-by-side to update system configuration to take advantage of new business requirements
- · Detailed metrics assessment

Determining Needs
- · Assist clients in determining objectives
- · Determine required functionality to address those objectives
Initial Search
- · Find vendors whose products most closely match the requirements
- · Conduct initial vendor narrowing
- · Produce RFP
Finializing Selection
- · Coordinate vendor demonstrations and proof of concept tests
- · Provide clients with final recommendations and "best fit" designation

Independent auditing and analysis of your third-party load planning provider to identify opportunities for improvement
- · Identification and quantification (value) of improvement opportunities
Based on previous analysis of third-party performance of several 3PL operators, we've identified opportunities for up to 16% transportation expense reduction!

Customized Reporting
- · Customized, automated metric reporting available through Hosted Solution platform
- · Customized operational reports embedded within JDA Fleet Management™ (formerly TR™, NetWORKS Routing™) application