DC Velocity - April 2009

alliances

Turn key. Gordon Food Service (GFS) has selected FKI Logistex to provide an automated material handling system for a new distribution center in Kenosha, Wis. The more than $10 million deal includes five pick modules, 30,000 feet of conveyor, a sliding shoe sorter, and multiple slapper lines. This is the second such installation FKI Logistex has done for GFS, which uses a high-speed conveying and sorting system from the vendor at its Shepherdsville, Ky., DC.

Crunch time. Snack food company Shearer’s Foods has gone live with RedPrairie’s E2e Supply Chain suite in its 235,000-square-foot distribution center in Navarre, Ohio. The solution includes RedPrairie’s Warehouse Management, Transportation Management, and Workforce Management solutions. Shearer’s also plans to implement the E2e Supply Chain suite at its Lubbock, Texas, facility later this year.

Bean there. L.L.Bean has selected UPS as its primary package delivery carrier. UPS will now provide both ground and air delivery of customer orders placed through L.L.Bean’s catalogs and Web site.

Empowering. Southern Co., an Atlanta-based electricity provider, has chosen the Click Commerce Parts solution to manage its inventory of more than 500,000 part numbers across 200 stocking locations. The Click Commerce solution, which is provided under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreement, will help Southern reduce its inventory.

Shrimp ship. Ocean Garden Products, a San Diego-based seafood company, has installed Prophesy ShipperPlus software to reduce its transportation costs. The transportation management software helps Ocean Garden select carriers as well as determine rates, optimal delivery routes, and the best way to consolidate orders. The software has already cut Ocean Garden’s transportation spend by 20 percent.

Speaking up. Agilysys has chosen Vanguard Voice Systems’ AccuSpeech Mobile Voice Platform to enable voice applications within its NextVision Web-based mobile and wireless retail software suite. The voice technology will be added to NextVision functions such as data entry, application function commands, and navigation capabilities.

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