Cannon Express, an irregular route truckload motor carrier offering "dry van" service to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Serving a wide variety of industries, including food, paper, plastics, and retail goods, announced today the adoption of additional decision support tools from Integrated Decision Support Corporation. Cannon Express has installed NetwiseŽ400.
NetwiseŽ400is a resident AS/400 system that utilizes the NetwiseŽ profitability data to provide access to key business intelligence without leaving the dispatch system. NetwiseŽ400 empowers the frontline to be knowledge workers capable of soliciting the most profitable freight, maximizing equipment utilization, and driver time at home. NetwiseŽ400 provides the frontline with yield management intelligence on the freight to accept/reject/solicit in order to maximize yield.
"We have been using Integrated's pricing and profitability tool, NetwiseŽ, for over two years now and we have been very pleased with the impact of these systems. The implementation and high quality support from Integrated is what we expect from our software providers. We expect this additional investment to continue to have very positive results," said Larry Patrick, President of Cannon Express.
"We are very pleased with Cannon's continued investment in our technology," said Dr. Rick Murphy, President of Integrated. " The management team at Cannon Express is extremely knowledgeable and they know how to use decision support software for maximum benefit. It is through working with customers like Cannon Express, that we insure our products are best-in-class ".
ABOUT Cannon Express
Cannon Express Corp, is an irregular route dry van, truckload carrier servicing the continental U.S., Canada and Mexico. Cannon Express Corp. is a publicly traded company listed as AB on the American Stock Exchange. Cannon Express was founded in 1981 by Dean and Rose Marie Cannon in Springdale, Arkansas. Cannon Express operates over 800 power units equipped with mobile satellite communications systems.
ABOUT Integrated Decision Support Corporation
Since 1990, Integrated Decision Support Corporation has been exclusively focused on providing optimization technology to full truckload carriers. Collectively, Integrated's customers represent more than 50,000 trucks. Integrated's objective is to provide its customers with a strategic competitive advantage through the use of optimization-based decision support systems. Integrated's full line of software addresses the entire range of decision-making issues for full truckload carriers from strategic and tactical to operational. These systems are proven to provide increased profits.
