MercuryGate International Inc., the industry leader in transportation management software solutions, today announced it will be a Gold Sponsor of Retail Industry Leaders Association’s Supply Chain Conference 2013 which will be held February 17^th to 20^th in Orlando. At the conference, MercuryGate will host the popular annual, “Women in Logistics Forum”.

“MercuryGate is proud to be affiliated with this event for transportation professionals in the retail industry,” said MercuryGate CEO Monica Wooden. “We are very grateful to RILA for providing a networking opportunity and forum for discussion on this important topic. Women play an important role in our industry and I look forward to offering the MercuryGate perspective to the dialog.”

MercuryGate’s enterprise transportation management solutions are widely used by retailers, their suppliers and freight management companies. These companies simultaneously optimize multimodal inbound and outbound transportation domestically and globally to reduce their total freight spend. The MercuryGate TMS is available as a license or as Software as a Service deployed in a true multi-tenant environment, on dedicated servers or behind the client’s firewall.

The only one of its kind in the industry, RILA’s Women in Logistics event is a unique opportunity for women to showcase their prominence in the supply chain field. This event has become one of the conference’s most popular sessions, and attendance grows each year. The event includes an interactive panel and roundtable discussion as representatives from retailers, product manufacturers and service providers dive into the issues facing women in the logistics world today, and what others are doing to address the same challenges. All RILA conference participants are welcome to the event.

About MercuryGate International Inc.

MercuryGate enables partner collaboration and delivers solutions for shippers, carriers, brokers, freight forwarders and third party logistics providers to plan, optimize and execute global transportation movements with complete end-to-end shipment visibility. Through a configurable workflow engine, MercuryGate customers are able to manage their parcel, LTL, and truckload shipments as well as complex multi-leg ocean, air, and rail movements, visit www.mercurygate.com [2].

About Retail Industry Leaders Association

RILA is the trade association of the world’s largest and most innovative retail companies. RILA members include more than 200 retailers, product manufacturers, and service suppliers, which together account for more than $1.5 trillion in annual sales, millions of American jobs and more than 100,000 stores, manufacturing facilities and distribution centers domestically and abroad.