BridgeNet President to Speak at PARCEL Forum 2009

We would like to remind those of you who will be in the Chicago area next month that Niko Michas, President & CEO of BridgeNet Solutions Inc., will be speaking on "Easy & Result-Driven Web-Based Benchmarking" at PARCEL Forum 2009 on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 from 11:00-11:45 AM, at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information on

PARCEL Forum 2009, visit: www.parcelforum.com. To learn more about Michas and BridgeNet Solutions, click here.

Solutions for Your Medical Product or Healthcare-Related Supply Chain

Since being founded in 2001, BridgeNet has strived to be a pioneer of medical product and healthcare-related supply chain solutions. Now, almost 10 years later, we provide some of the most state-of-the-art services and solutions available to medical device, pharmaceutical, life science, and other internationally recognized healthcare product companies around the world.

BridgeNet has a deep understanding of the challenges facing medical and healthcare supply chain professionals, and has specifically designed services and solutions to combat their biggest obstacles, including:

• The increasing need to expand worldwide due to the globalization of medical and pharmaceutical products
• Quality and safety requirements that are complicating both foreign and domestic operations
• Government-related costs and controls and a larger amount of tracking requirements
• The state of consumer confidence and increased competition
• Challenges associated with implenting a foolproof benchmarking process that determines best practices and provides the market intelligence required for cutting shipping costs and obtaining the best possible rates

Contact Jim Vaca, Director Healthcare & Life Science Solutions, to find out how BridgeNet can help you overcome these and the other challenges facing your medical product or healthcare-related supply chain. Be sure to ask how we've helped save other medical and pharmaceutical companies up to 40% percent on their overall annual transportation expense.

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WWW.BRIDGENETSOLUTIONS.COM Xonar Jim Vaca, Director Healthcare & Life Science Solutions BridgeNet President to Speak at PARCEL Forum 2009 On-Site Surveys and Data Gathering: The First Step to Developing Your Global Shipping Profile

On-Site Surveys and Data Gathering: The First Step to Developing Your Global Shipping Profile

by Jim Vaca

As recently featured by PARCEL Magazine

Your global shipping profile is a detailed report of your company's shipping characteristics. It should contain everything from the number of packages that you ship per day to things like delivery density, claim ratio, weight distribution and everything else that you and your carrier may be able to use in order to come up with operating ratios and profitability ratios that can be easily compared. Such comparisons will enable you and your carrier to then determine your range for discounts. In addition to increasing the leverage you can have with your carriers when it comes to obtaining better shipping rates, developing an accurate global shipping profile can also allow you to accurately compare your company's current shipping practices to best-in-industry practices, integrate your internal systems and processes, and obtain end-to-end visibility across all modes of transportation.

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