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Title: Implementing OTM Outside the US: What's Similar, What's Different
Speaker: Norman Fontes - Tsol
No TMS application on the market today is as adaptable as OTM for international scenarios. However that does not mean that implementing OTM outside the US (where it was originally designed) is easy. Today, OTM is being implemented successfully in countries throughout Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The purpose of this panel discussion is to highlight some of the similarities, differences, issues, and lessons learned form those implementations. Some of those revolve around topics such as:

• Language – How good are the translations? What adjustments need to be made to screens? How does the same language vary across countries?
• Support – How are users outside the US obtaining application support?
• Settlements / taxes – How well does OTM manage different tax scenarios
• Distances – What are options for obtaining, calculating, loading distances?
• Rates – Probably the most complex issue. How different are they and can they be represented in OTM? Are there rate modeling tools? How do we define rate distance outside the US? What rateware exists outside the US?

Fontes, Norman - Implementing OTM Outside the US_v10.pdf