McKinney Consulting, Inc.

Software & System Solutions

What We Do

McKinney Consulting Inc. is the developer of the ADVANTAGE: line of business information systems. These systems are designed for our clients in two (2) closely related segments of the freight transportation industry: Intermodal Marketing Companies and Intermodal Drayage Carriers. The ADVANTAGE information system provides our clients with a strategic competitive advantage over their competors by allowing them to offer a higher level of customer service while operating many times more efficiently. In this way, users of our systems become Least Cost Operators while being Best Practice Providers. This combination of low costs and high performance results in greaterer profitability while increasing customer loyalty and sales volume.

Products, Systems and Services

Our services include the installation, maintenance and support of information systems designed and developed to address the business, operational and financial needs of our clients. The scope of our systems span from Order Processing, (costing, pricing, arranging, executing and monitoring) to Invoicing, Receivables Management and Collections to Freight Payment and Auditing; to Financial Reporting and historically-based Management Reporting; to the imbedded electronic storage and retrieval of order related documents (Images of Bills of Lading and Proofs of Delivery, et cetera are stored right within customer orders). Depending upon the particular business segment our clients are competing in, the solutions are delivered in the form of either our ADVANTAGE: IMC System or our ADVANTAGE: Drayage Trucking System.

Advantage: IMC System The Intermodal Marketing Company System

The ADVANTAGE IMC System supports all aspects of the most efficiently running and most profitable Intermodal Brokerage operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Rail Rates and Dray Rates are selected from your rate file to calculate and document expected costs and proposed routings associated with Customer Price Quotes. Quotes are quickly and repetitively converted to Orders while the On-Line Dispatching function takes order from telephone acceptance to being dispatched within just 30 seconds. Pick-Up Confirmations, EDI Billing, Delivery Pre-Notifications are automatically sent as soon as your operations staff indicate that the documents are ready for transmission. Accessorial Notifications are similarly automatically faxed or emailed. Car Location Messages (CLMs) and EDI Tracing data are periodically collected from each Railroad moving your freight, triggering daily Tracing reports to your customers. Customer access to tracing via the Web is also available. To learn more about the IMC System, click here.

Advantage: Drayage System The Intermodal Trucking Company System

Whether you utilize company drivers or independent contractors (owner operators) The ADVANTAGE Drayage System helps Intermodal Trucking Companies operate with technical savvy-ness and efficiency you need to remain highly profitable in today’s demanding marketplace. EDI Order Entry is one example. Here, Electronically Tendered Loads automatically display on the On-Line Dispatch Board, in prioritized order based upon availability and the scheduled Ship Date and Time. If you use Owner/Operators, the system allows dispatchers to document the charges you agree to pay your drivers for each drop, pick, bob-tail, dead-head and round-trip you ask them to perform no matter whether you pay them a Percentage of Revenue Rates, Flat Rates, Point-to-Point rates or Mileage-based Rates. The Equipment Tracking features of the Prioritized On-Line, Dispatch Board monitor Free-Time and Storage Time, warning dispatchers of approaching Per Diem charges so unnecessary charges can be avoided. Pickup Notifications, to eliminate Billing Delays at Rail Ramps, and Delivery Notifications are automatically faxed, emailed or EDIed as soon as your operations staff indicates the documents are ready for transmission. Electronic messaging directly to your customer is another possibility. To learn more about the Drayage System, click here.

Contact Information

Christopher L. McKinney

President

Mailing address E-mail address

McKinney Consulting Inc. Sales@McKinney1.com

113 Constitution Drive

Downingtown, PA 19335-1304

Office voice phone Office fax

(610) 269-6200 (610) 269-6219

Last revised: Friday, February 13, 2004