Ex Works Inc.
Our clients
Our management
Our technology partner -- IES Ltd.
Our sister company -- XVS, LLC
Our service partners --
- Two of the top five freight forwarders in the world depend on Ex Works to help them
manage their daily business with their U.S. trucking network.
- Panalpina
- DHL Global Forwarding.
- In addition to using our services to help manage their trucking networks, these
companies have made and continue to make significant contributions to the design
of our products.
- Datatrac Corporation, one of the leading providers of software to the industry's
truckers, licenses our Vendor Management system as the integrated rate and
compliance backdrop for their own eTrac service.
Our management
- Gregg Borgeson, President
Gregg is an industry veteran. He learned the business at Emery Air Freight, served
as Director of International Air Freight for BAX Global, and then was CEO of ASG
Forwarding (now part of DHL Global Forwarding). In 1988 he helped found
Hellmann in North America, and managed the company as CEO from 1991 to 1999.
Gregg then entered the technology side of the industry, co-founding QuoteShip.com,
which he later sold to Manhattan Associates (then Logistics.com).
Andrew Bullen, Chairman
Andrew runs IES Ltd., the fastest growing software company supporting the
forwarding industry. He grew up in a family steeped in cargo transportation and
built his first forwarder application while still in college. He parlayed this
background into IES, which he founded 14 years ago.
Our technology partner -- IES Ltd.
- The people that write Ex Works’ software understand our industry intimately. The
IES team has developed the applications that power about 40% forwarders moving
AMS data on-line to customs, as well as the operational software running the daily
activity of hundreds of freight forwarders.
Our sister company -- XVS, LLC
- XVS provides the related solutions which help forwarders gather, negotiate and
maintain rates and control important compliance information from their sprawling
trucking networks.
Our service partners --
- Supporting competing systems costs everyone money -- so Ex Works has
established cooperative relationships with leading technology providers to the
trucking companies who serve the forwarding industry. POD and billing information
can move from the driver or the dispatch office into the internal system used by the
trucker -- and flow through directly to the forwarder, via Ex Works. Everyone wins.
Datatrac Corporation has been helping shippers, freight forwarders and delivery
service companies grow revenues by maximizing logistics efficiency since 1977.
More than 300 customers - including eight of the top ten expedited delivery
companies - use our software and hosted solutions to compete more effectively.
From demand through delivery to settlement, Datatrac's practical application of its
flagship eTrac shipment tracking product in conjunction with GPS and wireless
technologies sets the standard for dispatch and shipment tracking software. To
learn more, please visit www.datatrac.com or call 800-827-2677.
- Crown Data Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of software, EDI and driver mobile
data technologies to the air freight trucking community. Over 110 trucking
operations are utilizing the Company’s Crown Freight Manager (CFM) software for
dispatching, shipment tracking, auto-rating, document imaging and billing. To learn
more, visit www.crowndatasystems.com.
Our story
When Gregg was running ASG and Hellmann
in the 1980's and 1990's, he took note of how
much effort it took to manage billing and
PODs with their trucking networks -- and
despite all the labor, how spotty the results
were. These problems were shared by every
large forwarder in the industry.
Several years ago, while serving as president
of Logistics.com (now Manhattan Associates),
he recognized the enormous efficiency and
value large commercial shippers gained
from the Transportation Management
Systems that connected them electronically
with their large LTL and FTL truckers. But he
also realized that the existing technology, so
efficient for large commercial shippers,
simply wouldn't do the job effectively for the
forwarding industry. Forwarders in North
America depend on a very different
population of small truckers, use unique rate
structures and face different time pressures.
What the forwarding industry needed was
entirely new technology, combined with
services, designed from scratch to address
the real world -- the way forwarders actually
work with their sprawling networks of large
and very small truckers.
Rather than raising financing and building a
technology department and infrastructure
from scratch, in 2003 Gregg formed a
partnership with Andrew Bullen and
established Ex Works. This allowed the
young company to hit the ground running
with the same technology resources that
powered IES to its leadership role in on-line
AMS processing and Windows-based
forwarding operational systems.
This structure also positioned Ex Works to
support very large clients -- while operating
profitably, without debt, and without outside
investors, from its inception and into the
future.
From its first days, Ex Works was supported
by leaders in our industry who recognized
the importance of the problem we addressed
-- and wanted a solution. A broad group of
companies, including Panalpina, BAX
Global, DHL Global Forwarding, UTi, and
Geo Logistics contributed time and ideas to
the design of our services. CNS played an
important advisory role, calling on their long
experience as administrators of the CASS
system.
The result of this collaboration of industry
specialists is a technology-based solution
that actually works -- because it is built
specifically for our industry by lifelong
veterans of our industry.
When Gregg was running ASG and Hellmann
in the 1980's and 1990's, he took note of how
much effort it took to manage billing and
PODs with their trucking networks -- and
despite all the labor, how spotty the results
were. These problems were shared by every
large forwarder in the industry.
Several years ago, while serving as president
of Logistics.com (now Manhattan Associates),
he recognized the enormous efficiency and
value large commercial shippers gained
from the Transportation Management
Systems that connected them electronically
with their large LTL and FTL truckers. But he
also realized that the existing technology, so
efficient for large commercial shippers,
simply wouldn't do the job effectively for the
forwarding industry. Forwarders in North
America depend on a very different
population of small truckers, use unique rate
structures and face different time pressures.
What the forwarding industry needed was
entirely new technology, combined with
services, designed from scratch to address
the real world -- the way forwarders actually
work with their sprawling networks of large
and very small truckers.
Rather than raising financing and building a
technology department and infrastructure
from scratch, in 2003 Gregg formed a
partnership with Andrew Bullen and
established Ex Works. This allowed the
young company to hit the ground running
with the same technology resources that
powered IES to its leadership role in on-line
AMS processing and Windows-based
forwarding operational systems.
This structure also positioned Ex Works to
support very large clients -- while operating
profitably, without debt, and without outside
investors, from its inception and into the
future.
From its first days, Ex Works was supported
by leaders in our industry who recognized
the importance of the problem we addressed
-- and wanted a solution. A broad group of
companies, including Panalpina, BAX
Global, DHL Global Forwarding, UTi, and
Geo Logistics contributed time and ideas to
the design of our services. CNS played an
important advisory role, calling on their long
experience as administrators of the CASS
system.
The result of this collaboration of industry
specialists is a technology-based solution
that actually works -- because it is built
specifically for our industry by lifelong
veterans of our industry.
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