The Ryder Logistics Release synchronizes logistics information; storage, transportation and delivery, regarding a product shipment with the product release information that initiates a shipment. This synchronization provides a common electronic communication utility to all parties in the sequence of events; order management, configuration, optimization, execution and monitoring, and shipment modes; air, rail, ocean or ground, that comprise a shipment. This novel product also produces a logistics plan for material flow that is shared among all the supply chain participants in a shipment’s lifecycle, which includes inbound and reverse logistics.

This logistics plan is updated throughout the life of the shipment and all participants in the shipment—carriers, shippers, payment firms, receivers, and logistics providers—are provided common information through web - native information utilities and software applications. This plan and the associated electronic communication utilities provide the core capability to automate, optimize, monitor and intervene appropriately as shipments vary from planned performance, thereby enhancing transportation management capabilities.