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enVista Delivers to Market New Combination of Transportation Outsourcing Services

enVista's Freight Management Solutions Enable Clients to Achieve Improved Efficiencies and Cost Savings in Challenging Transportation Environment

INDIANAPOLIS -- September 16, 2008 -- Rising fuel prices, transportation talent and driver shortages, increasing carrier costs, customer service demands, and global supply chain complexities have made it extremely challenging for companies to profitably and effectively manage their transportation processes. In response to these demands, enVista, the leading enterprise cost management services provider, announced today it is expanding its transportation outsourcing services.

enVista helps companies manage the costs and complexities associated with transportation management by providing:

• Project-based transportation consulting, including: supply chain and transportation network design, transportation master planning, rate analysis and benchmarking, and transportation procurement
• Transportation management process design and system enablement, with a focus on order and shipment visibility, optimized planning, robust event management, efficient freight accounting, and timely reporting for improved decision-making
• Managed operations that are process-focused, metrics-driven, and transparently-priced. enVista's managed operations support clients' transportation leadership by efficiently performing daily operations, allowing those leaders to focus on strategic opportunities

Says enVista President Jim Barnes, “enVista offers superior transportation outsourcing services with extensive supply chain consulting experience to holistically address clients' enterprise requirements from source to consumption. This unique combination of capabilities enables us to improve processes, manage operations, and reduce transportation costs.”

Stephen Craig, owner and co-founder of CP Consulting, Inc., joins enVista as the Managing Partner responsible for the managed transportation services. Craig brings more than 15 years of transportation, strategy, operations and systems experience. Prior to founding CP Consulting, Mr. Craig held transportation consulting positions with A.T. Kearney, Deloitte Consulting, and Ernst & Young's National Transportation Practice.

Says Craig, “enVista provides customers with visibility to underlying transportation costs rather than services based on carrier rate mark-ups. In addition, we have created best-in-class managed transportation services that are fully integrated with world-class transportation technologies and enVista's own thriving Cost Management consulting services, allowing us to significantly improve our customers' bottom line results and support their strategic ‘green' transportation initiatives.”

Adrian Gonzalez, Director Logistics Executive Council at ARC Advisory Group comments, “Many companies are looking at their fragmented supply chains and becoming overwhelmed by the ever-growing complexity.  Buying and implementing supply chain software is now the easy part, compared to finding experienced supply chain experts who can connect all the pieces together—software, process changes, metrics, and best practices—to create business value.  In response, the business models of software vendors, consulting firms, and Logistics Service Providers are converging.  I call it the marriage of technology with Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO), and this enhanced service offering from enVista is a perfect example of this trend.”

About enVista
enVista is the leading enterprise cost management services provider, offering expert consulting and technology services from source to consumption. enVista enables world-leading companies to reduce operating costs, improve customer service and enhance profitability through innovative solutions and deep domain expertise across a multitude of industries and vertical markets. For more information about enVista please call 877-684-7700 or contact us at inforrequest@envistacorp.com.

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