LOGISTICS.COM OFFERS INTEGRATIVE STANDARD

LOGISTICS.COM OFFERS INTEGRATIVE STANDARD    Logistics.com, a provider of transportation procurement and management technology, has introduced an open, standards-based and user-driven system to integrate standard applications.
   The company’s new Logistics Event Management Architecture (LEMA) simplifies the integration of legacy systems and protocols with Internet-enabled systems, opening a broader sphere of supply chain management to trading partners, vendors and customers.
   “A lack of standards has been one of the key barriers to the rapid adoption of e-logistics services,” said Romala Ravi, senior analyst for e-logistics services for IDC. “LEMA is a response to shippers’ demands for more open initiatives.”
   Using the new architecture, multiple organizations can process the same logistics event through independent work flows.
   The backbone of LEMA is its message bus, which integrates more than 60 business protocols, such as EDI, HTTP, SOAP, XML/RPC and XML, over the Web, creating “a link that bridges all parties within mission-critical supply chains,” said John Lanigan, chief executive officer of Logistics.com, which is based in Burlington, Mass.