Milestone Release for Innovative IES Software Announced

JOC Staff |
CLEVELAND, Ohio – TMW Systems today announced that Innovative IES® Release 9 (R9) is now in general availability. Innovative IES® is the leading enterprise transportation software for the IBM i platform and became part of the TMW product family through an acquisition announced last year.

The general availability announcement follows extensive QA and testing, including successful beta testing or managed releases during Q1with five existing customers. R9 involved more than 40,000 hours of design, development and quality assurance work by the Innovative development team.

“R9 represents a significant milestone for us,” said Ray West, newly appointed general manager for Innovative software. “The code base was fully converted from RPG III to IBM's high-level Integrated Language Environment (RPG IV-ILE). This painstaking conversion was important to improve developer productivity and speed the release of future enhancements. It also benefits system resource utilization.”

For customers, R9 means new functionality in Accounts Payable, Customer Service and Dispatch, Detention Tracking, FlexEDI, Hours of Service, Logistics Management, Mobile Communications, Rating, User-defined Fields, Operations Reports and more. For example, a key feature aiding companies with HOS and CSA 2010 compliance is a new “AvHrs” field that displays each driver’s available hours. The system calculates available hours by checking the log rules set up for each driver and deducting the hours already on duty.

The upgrade also incorporates additional Logistics Management, Master Files, Payroll and User-Defined functions. New settings include the ability to pre-notify customers, driver managers or customer service representatives of potential detention situations. Interfaces with mobile communications providers CarrierWeb and DriverTech are now available. Adjustments to new driver log info, an EDI error reporting feature and improved handling of load tender transactions, including the ability to cross-reference multiple shipper location codes for EDI transactions, round out the offerings.

According to West, R9 is free to existing Innovative IES software customers who are active on support and maintenance agreements with TMW.

“We are extremely pleased to oversee this major new release fewer than six months after our acquisition of Innovative Computing Corporation,” West added. “Our focus will now be on bringing new features and enhancements to market in a speedier fashion, in order to keep our customers current with the latest industry developments.”


About TMW Systems

TMW Systems is the leading provider of enterprise transportation software, including TL2000, TruckMate, Innovative IES and TMWSuite. For use with all major operations platforms in the trucking industry, TMW also offers TMT Fleet Maintenance software, IDSC ExpertFuel for fuel routing, IDSC Netwise for yield optimization and IDSC MatchAdvice and TripAlert to improve asset utilization. Customers include private and for-hire trucking, 3PLs and shippers, brokerage, construction, ready-mix concrete, municipal fleets, heavy-duty repair and waste management operations. With offices in Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Raleigh, North Carolina; Indianapolis, Indiana; Nashville, Tennessee; and Vancouver, British Columbia; TMW currently serves more than 1,800 customers managing over 400,000 power units and maintaining more than 1.2 million assets worldwide, including North America, Europe, China and Latin America.

For more information, visit www.tmwsystems.com or call (800) 401-6682.