Crossgate Global Network Now Extended to Support SAP TransportationManagement (SAP TM)

Crossgate Provides Customers Using SAP TM with a Preconfigured Connection to
their Business Partners
ATLANTA--(Business Wire)--
With the help of Crossgate's Business-Ready Network, it is now possible for
businesses in the transport logistics sector, which use the SAP Transportation
Management (SAP TM) application, to benefit from the advantages of comprehensive
B2B connectivity. The network comprises preconfigured profiles based on a
service-oriented architecture (SOA), which enables businesses to exchange
transport-related data with their business partners on an ad-hoc basis. More
than 40,000 businesses can already be reached via the B2B platform.
Point-to-point connections with business partners, which are commonly used
today, are therefore no longer necessary.

Transport management is not an isolated business area; it is one of the
fundamental core processes of virtually every business. For this reason, it is
especially important to integrate it with the other processes - even extending
outside the company - in order to help ensure transparency and efficiency
throughout the entire value chain. This strengthens a company's competitive
advantage in today's market, which is characterized by open borders and growing
globalization. As a result of the economic crisis, cost optimization and export
slumps represent new challenges. For those companies that want to be in business
and expand their market position, they need a system that can do more than just
map all the processes; they need one that helps guarantee connectivity to
business partners and logistics providers.

In this market segment, SAP TM has proven itself capable of effectively
supporting complex transport networks. Its functionalities include managing
transportation requests, planning and subcontracting, tendering of transports
and calculating transportation costs for customers and logistic service
providers. In short, SAP TM supports SAP customers with the professional
execution of the entire transportation process.

Better connected among global competition

An expanded supply chain and the ever-increasing number of business partners
make collaboration between partners essential. However, different IT systems,
numerous modes of communication and the lack of uniform global B2B standards can
often impede smooth communication. SAP TM has a solution for this, which makes
individual partner interfaces unnecessary. With just one connection to
Crossgate's B2B platform, users of SAP TM can, for example, exchange freight
orders directly with transport service providers. Furthermore, booking
confirmations for cargo space can be transferred directly into the client's
system. Crossgate's Business-Ready Network already provides the possibility to
communicate with more than 40,000 business partners in all sectors worldwide.

Bernd Mosbrucker, director of Solution Management SAP SCM at SAP AG, explains
the background: "An important part of a solution for planning and carrying out
transport orders is forging a network with external service providers and
business partners. This establishes cross company value scenarios for efficient
and interactive collaboration. Crossgate uses the SAP TM data structures on the
B2B platform, which enables them to provide our customers with the connectivity
they want."

Connecting to the Business-Ready Network allows customers to communicate with
business partners using all ERP systems and communication standards - with just
a single interface. The solution conforms to the SAP strategy and utilizes the
contents of a service-oriented architecture.

Pulling together, hand in hand

Stefan Tittel, CEO of Crossgate AG, explains: "We enable the flexible,
cross-company interconnection of logistics processes between customers using SAP
TM and their logistics providers and business partners. This was built on the
basis of SOA technology, together with SAP. We have reached a milestone in B2B
connectivity, upon which we can build future collaborative projects.

SAP and Crossgate have been collaborating in the area of Business Process
Outsourcing (BPO) since October 2007. A further step was SAP`s strategic
investment in Crossgate in 2008, with the objective of using Crossgate`s B2B
services to enhance its own solutions. SAP TM customers can now benefit from the
connection to the Crossgate Network and utilize B2B connectivity "out of the
box".

About Crossgate, Inc.

Crossgate offers the world's first Business-Ready Network, guaranteeing 100%
integration of business partners, clients and suppliers. A single connection to
the Network means electronic data exchange with any business partner regardless
of their technical capability. In addition, Crossgate's B2B-360 Services powered
by SAP provide clients direct access to all integrated business partners in the
B2B transaction network via their SAP systems. With its legally compliant
e-Invoicing Services, Crossgate also provides an innovative and 100% secure
solution to cover the entire process of incoming and outgoing invoices,
including signatures, global compliance monitoring, and secure automated
long-term archiving. More than 40,000 business partners, representing over 10
industries, currently exchange documents and data via the Business-Ready
Network.

Crossgate is represented at four sites in Germany, with operations in Atlanta,
London, Milan, Paris, and AsiaPac. For more information, visit
http://www.crossgate.com

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Crossgate Inc.
Steve Sprague, 678-324-3637
steve.sprague@crossgate.com
www.b2b360.com

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