Radical Tools 4.0 is a major rewrite of version 3.4 and makes an already powerful application faster, easier to use, better integrated with Excel and much better positioned for future enhancements. For existing users of Radical Tools, this upgrade provides many new and exciting features.
Converted from XLA/COM DLL Based to XLL Based
- Tighter integration with Excel
- Improved integration with the Excel "Insert Function Wizard"
- Typing "=rl" immediately lists all radical tools functions
- Much faster performance - up to 200% faster!
- Supports new large Excel 2007 spreadsheet model, as well as earlier versions of Excel
Updated Look
- Supports Vista and its Aero interface.
- Supports ribbon menu used within Office 2007.
- Cleaner, slicker look, with more consistent and easier-to-use screens.
- Distinction between commercial, academic and trial licenses.
Ease of Use Improvements
- Seamless support of locations in the form of city, state or zip codes.
- Ability to transfer contracts between different contract data bases.
- Easier and more consistent support of location ranges, with smart selection of columns.
- A more comprehensive and better organized help file.
- Pop-up hints and forms that provide better direction and help.
Enhanced Functionality
- New UPS and FedEx 2009 rates.
- New Q4 2008 Geographic data.
- Composite contracts that enable combining multiple contracts in different ways. For example, specific lane-to-lane costs can be supplemented with state-to-state rates. This significantly increases the ability of Radical Tools to support complex rate contract structures.
- Sophisticated Automatic Contract Compression allows the loading of large zip3 and zip5 matrix contracts, without compromising performance.
- rlQuickestOrigin and rlQuickestDestination uses transit times to determine the quickest way to ship.
- Ability to import multiple text files into one contract. As an example, this will allow the import of UPS multiple service matrix files, listing transit time to all codes from a given origin. Combined with the rlQuickestOrigin and rlQuickestDestination functionality, this can be used for determining optimum UPS shipping facilities based on service as well as based on cost.
Please contact Radical Logistics for information relating to demo licenses or for more information about Radical Tools 4.1.