alliances
Software developer Infor has announced that Nelson Industrial, a global manufacturer of precision metal products, doubled its revenue after implementing Infor’s
ERP Visual, a manufacturing-centric enterprise resource planning system. …
RedPrairie has signed an agreement with Lucas Systems to resell the Jennifer
VoicePlus applications using a pre-built direct interface to RedPrairie’s Warehouse
Management solutions. … Westfalia Technologies has
installed an automated storage and retrieval system as well as
its Savanna.NET warehouse control system at Pepsi Beverages
Co.’s facility in Tampa, Fla. … Swisslog and Intelligrated have
formed a strategic alliance in North America to provide integrated material handling solutions for the food, beverage,
and retail markets. Swisslog’s warehouse automation products and integration
services will now be available alongside Intelligrated’s U.S. manufactured technologies and regional network. … Biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers
Squibb has chosen third-party service provider Exel to handle its U.S. distribution.
As part of the contract, Exel purchased the existing Bristol-Myers Squibb DCs in
Mount Vernon, Ind., and will take over operations in the second quarter of this
year. … 4Front Engineered Solutions has teamed up with RFID specialist Fluensee
to enhance its yard management solution. Under the agreement, 4Front will add
Fluensee’s RFID yard management system to the existing 4Sight yard and dock
management system. … Carter Control Systems Inc. has installed a new order picking, packaging, and shipping system for Swanson Health Products.
WESTFALIA
WAREHOUSE
STORAGE
TZA brings money-back guarantees to DC market
A new deal between the consumer
products company Focus Products
Group LLC and supply chain consultancy
TZA has introduced a new twist to
warehouse and DC service arrangements: performance guarantees.
Performance guarantees are nothing
new in the logistics market. For years,
express delivery companies and some
motor carriers have offered to refund
shipping charges in the event of a late
or missed delivery. But this type of
offering is not commonplace in the
world of warehouses and DCs.
Under the three-year agreement,
Focus Products, a Lincolnshire, Ill.-based
distributor of kitchen, bath, and food-
service products, has outsourced to TZA
the operation of its 175,000-square-
foot DC in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. TZA,
which has migrated Focus Products’ 70
full-time DC employees onto its payroll,
has already begun introducing practices
and processes that will improve the effi-
ciency of the DC’s floor operation,
according to Mike Schoenfeld, a TZA
vice president who heads up the com-
pany’s outsourcing operations.
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