CHELMSFORD, Mass., Aug. 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kewill Inc. a leading provider of shipping solutions that streamline global trade and logistics, today announced the availability of Kewill Universal Carrier Module (UCM™), a new module that enables shippers of all sizes, complexity and geographic coverage to onboard new carriers and services with unprecedented speed and flexibility.
Kewill UCM is designed to provide rapid implementation of international, national or regional carriers anywhere in the world at a fraction of the time and cost typically associated with onboarding new carriers or maintaining compliance for existing carriers. This is accomplished through both a straightforward user interface for configuration, and easy-to-use scripting. With the Kewill Flagship 5.2 UCM, customers have the ability to maintain their own carrier compliance, add new services and onboard carriers that give them a competitive advantage.
For the shippers themselves, they now are now able to link their strategic services development with their go-to-market plans, and provide services and compliance, based on their own timeframe.
News Facts:
- Kewill UCM features include:
- Robust, highly configurable carrier content and compliance tool
- Intuitive menu-driven graphic user interface
- No programming required for adding services or carrier compliance
- Designed for use anywhere in the world (labels and documents produced in any language), for shipping to anywhere in the world
- Currently available for Kewill Flagship 5.2
Kewill Flagship 5.2 features include:
- Extended support for TNT Asia
- Additional Newgistics services
- New DHL Global XML PI Web service-based carrier for Europe, Middle East & Africa and Asia Pacific regions
- Dedicated integration to Kewill Export™ (export compliance and documentation)
- Extended support for international compliance documents and customs filings
- Kewill UCM is currently being deployed with several globally known consumer brands.
- Kewill Flagship is an enterprise-level, multi-carrier shipping management system that can support high-volume, multiple-location, and international and domestic shipping to meet the needs of both moderate and high-volume shipping operations and complex distribution environments. Kewill Flagship is offered in both an on-premise and cloud-based version (Flagship Express™), can manage thousands of shipping stations and is capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of shipments per day on a single deployment.
- With more than 12,000 deployments of shipping solutions, Kewill customers are some of the highest volume and most sophisticated parcel and LTL shippers across the globe.
Supporting Quote:
- "The launch of Kewill UCM is a game-changer for the market," said Alan Gold, vice president of marketing and business development for Kewill Inc. "For customers, they are now able to make strategic decisions about how best to move their goods, and maintain their own carrier services and compliance with their own business analyst-level resources if they so choose."
- "For carriers, be they the global giants, regional carriers or shipping specialists, all can now leverage their strategic services development by being able to create their own compliance and deliver it along with those services, accelerating their time to market," Gold continued. "We are in active discussions with a number of carriers and anticipate good collaboration. We see this as a win-win for everyone who ships products from and to anywhere in the world. With both the release of Kewill Flagship 5.2 and our new UCM module we underscore our commitment to the global shipping market."
About Kewill Ltd.
Kewill is a leading provider of technology solutions that enable Logistics Service Providers and Shippers to move goods domestically and across international and global borders. Our products empower companies to connect and optimise the performance of their local, international and global transport and logistics operations. Kewill delivers world-class software in the areas of freight forwarding, customs and export compliance, parcel shipping, transportation & warehousing, eCommerce and B2B integration. Our customers rely on our innovative software and extensive domain knowledge to improve their business processes, information exchange and management visibility to drive revenue growth, deliver cost savings, improve profitability and meet the changing needs of their customers.
Established in 1972, Kewill has over 7,000 customers around the world including FedEx, Ford, Mazda, Nestlé, Nike, Palm, Procter & Gamble, Parker Hannifin, Overstock.com, GE Healthcare Bayer, Black & Decker, Damco, DHL, Hankyu Hanshin, Hitachi, Ingersoll Rand, Mothercare, UPS, Scott's & Co., TNT and WaverleyTBS.
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Mariana Haven
PR & Corporate Communications Manager
Kewill Inc.
978-482-2691
About Kewill Ltd.
Kewill delivers solutions that accelerate global trade and logistics.
Our software solutions and deep domain knowledge enable our customers to drive revenue growth and measurable cost savings.
A global company, Kewill provides software that accelerates customs and forwarding, transportation & logistics, and eCommerce & B2B integration. All of our solutions and people are focused on increasing the speed of global trade for our customers.
Since 1972, Kewill has delivered global trade and logistics solutions to the most sophisticated companies in the world. Over 7,000 companies use Kewill solutions including Bayer, Ingersoll Rand, DHL, UPS, TNT, Toll, Hankyu Hanshin, Scott's & Co,Hitachi, WaveryTBS, Mothercare, Black & Decker and Damco.
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