Jan 24, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. Weyerhaeuser has selected GT Nexus to provide the global logistics datahub, integration technology and business process software to centrallymanage and control worldwide ocean freight services. An industry leading $23 billion forest products company, Weyerhaeuser is one of North America's top exporters. Its operations incorporate 11 business units and a network of 43 ocean carriers as well as a company-owned shipping line. The GT Nexus platform provides a single, collaborative Web-based system within which Weyerhaeuser will conduct procurement of global ocean transportation services, manage freight rates, optimize contracts and transportation plans, execute shipments with shipping lines and measure performance. By deploying a "control center" for global ocean freight, Weyerhaeuser isinstituting an integrated management process incorporating several business-critical transportation functions. These include: As a hosted software service, Weyerhaeuser, its business units and partnerswill use the system via a common Web browser, with the service provisioneddirectly over the Internet, requiring no installation of hardware orsoftware on premise at the customer. "On-demand technology is enabling new, more efficient methods for delivering global logistics solutions, creating networks that benefit entire communities of participants," said Aaron Sasson, chairman and chief executive officer of GT Nexus. "Weyerhaeuser is embracing the innovation ofthis model to drive efficiencies and competitive advantage into its business. We are committed to their success and proud to welcome them as acustomer." Weyerhaeuser joins a growing list of major global corporations who areusing GT Nexus hosted software and services for a wide range of global transportation and logistics, document management or supply chainvisibility activities. These companies include American Eagle Outfitters,DuPont, Evian North America, Hewlett-Packard, The Home Depot, Kmart, MOLAmerica, Procter & Gamble and Xerox. GT Nexus was founded in 1998, the company provides integrated software products and IT services, provisioned through a single Web platform, used by enterprises and their partners to control, optimize and manage the flow of goods and information from order to delivery, worldwide. The GT Nexus platform is backed by an industry consortium of leading ocean carriers who transact over the system with some 70 3PLs, hundreds of freight forwarder sand over 6,000 importers and exporters to manage and execute international shipping.