Product Benefits

• Save the 35% of your time you waste on document management.

• Save 25% of your team's overall transportation spend.

• Ensure your team members stay connected, without air travel.

• Get desperately needed project expertise, only when you need it.

• Minimize the time needed to sell your consultation services.

Centralized Access to Product Features

LOC Global enables your team to instantly access state-of-the-art Web tools from one easy-to-use interface, with new features added continually:

Logistics Management

Plan Loads - Simplify loading cartons, pallets, sea containers and trucks. By knowing exact carton size and weight up front, carton materials and filler are reduced, surprise oversize charges are eliminated, and carriers are more optimally selected.

Ship parcels and freight - Support for courier, less-than-load, truckload, domestic or international air, or ocean transport. Get instant quotes from more than 50 well-known carriers. Compare prices and transit times. Dispatch your freight without picking up the phone.

Track & Trace - Centralize tracking of outbound, and inbound shipments. For buyers and production managers this means fewer resources devoted to monitoring supplier shipping and delivery, and reduced impact of exceptions. This may allow significant reductions in safety inventory.

Collaborate on Logistics - Benefit from negotiated bulk rate discounts. Currently managing over three million shipments annually, resulting in more than three billion miles of freight moved, with consistent savings of 5-25% off overall transportation spend.

Collaboration Tools

Document Management - Help your team capture, store and leverage team documents. LOC Global's revision support keeps track of each change. Every change leaves a footprint, and you can follow these easily and effectively. Email notifications alert your team to changes.

Web Conferencing - Connect all your team members in multiple locations with just a phone line and a web browser. You can train new team members or conduct an all team meeting—much faster and at a fraction of the cost you'd pay for travel, and with no special hardware or software.

Virtual PBX - Consolidate all your team members under the umbrella of a single phone number. Get your team the same automated answering, call routing and conferencing capabilities of an expensive PBX system, without the need to invest in hardware.

Human Resources

Post a Project - Get immediate access to global expertise, while ensuring cost-effective and high quality service. Currently, 3,400 service providers are members of the network, gathering feedback from 1,100 new projects per week, with a typical scope of $200 to $20,000 each.

Rent a LOC - By renting a Logistics Operations Center, or LOC from LOC Global, your people-strapped organization gets the transportation, procurement, operations and regional expertise you need, only when you need it.

IT Services - None of the state-of-the-art Web tools at LOC Global have installation or IT requirements. However you may choose to integrate our tools with other applications, or optimize them to support specific business requirements.

Online Training

Courses - LOC Global courses provide case studies and histories of successful logistical operations throughout history, and offer practical guidance on applying proven logistical principles to your business.

Certification - Prove your expertise in logistics and supply chain management. Benefit from industry-wide credibility and recognition, LOC Global's endorsement, the LOC Certified Logo and official certificate, and career advancement and professional development.

Sell Your Services - Bid on 1,100 new projects per week. Get immediate access to and rapid decisions from clients, minimize the time and investment required to market your service, and ensure safe and quick electronic payment.

Continuous Upgrades

New LOC Global features are automatically updated over the Internet. No user downloads, updates or reinstallations are necessary.

Available Direct and Via Resellers

• Online sign up via the Web at www.locglobal.com

• Internet Service Provider Partners (ISPs) and other affiliates

• Value-added resellers (software, third party logistics, etc.)

• Small Business service and product providers

Requires Just a Standard Web Browser

• Internet Explorer® Version 5+ or Netscape Navigator Version 6+ is recommended.

• The interface is functional for all browsers (including Mozilla, Mac IE, Opera, and Konquerer), but some features that require Javascript may be degraded with non-recommended browsers/older versions.