Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: A logistics system manages the shipments of goods supplied from a plurality of different shippers by a plurality of carriers. It has a variety of modules integrated with each other to perform various functionalities. For example, it may have a purchasing module evaluating proposals by shippers for respective shipments of goods and awarding contracts for the shipments to the plurality of carriers. It may have an optimization module analyzing the proposals and informing the purchasing module if an opportunity exists for at least some of the shipments to be consolidated, in which case at least one contract awarded by the purchasing module is for a consolidated group of the shipments. It may have a contract administration module maintaining information relating to the status of proposals received and contracts awarded by the purchasing module. It may have a scheduling module scheduling shipments according to the awarded contracts.

Abstract: In an apparatus and method for computing inverses and square roots, a highly accurate initial approximation is computed using a second order polynomial equation, the coefficients of which are stored in a ROM. The most significant bits of an operand are used to address a ROM to select coefficients, providing different coefficients for different operand ranges. The remaining lesser significant operand bits are used in the computation; the coefficient values already account for the bits used to address them. The result is in single precision accuracy. For double precision, the polynomial results are used as the first approximation for a Newton-Raphson iteration. The multiplier has a split array mode to speed up the calculation of the polynomial, whereby two lesser precision values can be computed at once. The size of the coefficients is tailored to produce the proper precision result for each of the elements of Ax.sup.2 +Bx+C.

Abstract: In an apparatus and method for computing inverses and square roots a highly accurate initial approximation is computed using a second order polynomial equation, the coefficients of which are stored in a ROM. The most significant bits of an operand are used to address a ROM to select coefficients, providing different coefficients for different operand ranges. The remaining lesser significant operand bits are used in the computation; the coefficient values already account for the bits used to address them. The result is in single precision accuracy. For double precision, the polynomial results are used as the first approximation for a Newton-Raphson iteration. The multiplier has a split array mode to speed up the calculation of the polynomial, whereby two lesser precision values can be computed at once. The size of the coefficients is tailored to produce the proper precision result for each of the elements of Ax.sup.2 +Bx+C.

Abstract: A programmable latency (a programmable number of clock cycles) needed for an operation completion. The required latency for a pipe is determined from a formula including the system clock cycle time which the unit will be specified to operate under. The latency is preprogrammed by setting the count of a timer accordingly to provide at least the minimum number of clock cycles necessary to cover the time required to do the computation. Separate timers are independently set for arithmetic logic unit (ALU) operations, multiply operations, logical operations and divide and square root operations.