From small warehouses with low
throughput rates to distribution
centers with hundreds of thousands
of order lines a day – viastore
integrated solutions optimizes your
material flow and order picking
processes, giving you the competitive
edge.
www.us.viastore.com/DCVApril
Automated
Streamlined
Intralogistics
REDUCED
RISKS
LOW
LOGI
CO
ORDER
PROCESSINGIENCY
INCREASED
THROUGH-
PUT
VST_Anzeige ASI_USA_DC_Velocity_03_2017_EN.indd 1 27.03.17 13:09
newsmakers
Kion North America has restructured its regional sales
and key account sales teams by adding Ben Lee as
director of key accounts, Bob Fernandez as key account
sales manager, and Jose Nunez as regional sales manager for Mexico. The company has also promoted
Hayden Smith to key account sales. … Vanderlande has
appointed Remo Brunschwiler chief executive officer. …
Sencorp White has named Chris Lingamfelter president.
… UShip has hired enterprise software veteran Mike
Williams as chief executive officer and board member.
… The Port of Vancouver USA board of
commissioners has installed Julianna Marler
as chief executive officer/executive direc-
tor. … Supply chain consulting and IT ser-
vices firm enVista has appointed Joel Garcia
head of national accounts. … CenterPoint
Properties has named Evan Lippow vice
president of investments. … Buffalo, N.Y.-based global
food supplier Rich Products Corp. has promoted Georgia
Dachille to the new position of executive vice presi-
dent, global supply chain and technology. … Vargo has
hired Juan Sanchez as a project engineer and Nathan
Wakefield as a software engineer. … Advance Storage
Products has hired Kevin Darby as its new automated
systems solutions manager. … NFI has welcomed new
chief information officer and senior vice president
Gerard Darby to its executive leadership team. … Matt
Wicks, vice president, product development, manu-
facturing systems at Intelligrated, was elected to the
Robotic Industries Association board of directors for a
two-year term. … Supply & Demand Chain Executive
magazine has named William Salter, CEO and president
of Paragon Software Systems, and Howard McIlvaine,
Unex Manufacturing’s vice president of operations, 2017
Provider Pros to Know. … Fortna has hired operations
research expert Dima Nazzal, Ph.D. Nazzal comes to
Fortna from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where
she was a faculty member focused on the application of
operations research, modeling, and designing complex
material flow systems in manufacturing and distribu-
tion. … Xvela, a Navis company and creator of an SaaS
collaboration platform for ocean carriers and terminal
operators, has appointed Guy Rey-Herme to lead the
Xvela business.
GARCIA