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PINC Solutions is selected FL100 Software and Technology Provider by Food Logistics Magazine
Leading Business Magazine for the Food and Grocery Industry Segments Releases Annual Listing of Top Software and Technology Providers.
Alameda, CA — January 17, 2012 — Food Logistics, the only publication dedicated exclusively to the grocery and foodservice distribution supply chain, last month announced the eighth-annual listing of the FL100. Food Logistics Magazine selected PINC Solutions as a top 100 software and technology provider for the fourth consecutive year.
Each year, the editors of Food Logistics recognize 100 software and technology providers that better enable grocery and foodservice distributors and manufacturers to realize their business goals. In 2011, the publication focused on solution providers that are helping their customers differentiate themselves in the marketplace, while simultaneously facilitating improved safety and traceability throughout the supply chain.
“With the passage of the FDA’s landmark Food Safety and Modernization Act, the entire food and beverage sector is under increased pressure to improve safety and traceability throughout the supply chain. In addition, the ongoing globalization of food supply chains demands closer collaboration with suppliers and enhanced visibility from farm to fork,” notes Lara L. Sowinski, editor-in-chief at Food Logistics. “Technology is a powerful tool that can ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and serve as a market differentiator in today’s highly competitive environment.”
“We would like to thank our customers for this recognition,” commented Ken Colby, PINC Solutions’ CEO. “Food safety and security has been a recurring agenda item for government regulators trying to build greater transparency and accountability into an increasingly global supply chain. As companies source and transport food products from farther afield the potential for contamination, security breaches, and shrinkage increases. As a consequence, our customers, such as Kraft Foods and Nestle, are becoming much more vigilant about how they track and monitor assets – especially in the yards.“
About PINC Solutions
PINC Solutions is the leading provider of advanced yard management and supply chain visibility solutions, with Fortune-500 customers in manufacturing, retail, logistics, and transportation sectors. PINC has pioneered the development of cost-effective real-time-location-systems (RTLS) using passive RFID technologies that minimizes capital investment required in the infrastructure. PINC’s award-winning products are designed with a scalable architecture for businesses of any size, and are expandable with modular components as customers’ needs grow. Available as turnkey and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), these systems have proven their value through immediate efficiency improvements in customers’ daily operations, typically generating positive return on their investments in less than one year. For more information, please visit www.pincsolutions.com.
About Food Logistics
Food Logistics is published by Cygnus Business Media, a leading diversified business-to-business media company. The publication serves the information needs of executives involved in various aspects of the food, beverage, and consumer packaged goods supply chain. Through our print and online products, we provide news, trends, and best practices that help more than 24,000 grocery and foodservice suppliers, distributors, and retailers make better business decisions. Visit us online at www.foodlogistics.com.
Media Contact
Rafael Granato – Marketing Communications Manager
PINC Solutions
+1-510-8454900 – press@pincsolutions.com
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Berkeley, CA - June 21, 2011 - PINC Solutions today announced its YARD HOUND 3.0 real-time, advanced yard management system (YMS) has achieved certified integration with the SAP® Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application via enterprise services. For customers, the integration of the award-winning Yard Hound™ application with SAP EWM provides new and unprecedented supply chain visibility, allowing them to see actual and up-to-the-minute locations and status of shipments, inventory and trailer assets.
The SAP Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC) has certified that YARD HOUND 3.0 integrates with SAP EWM via the yard and storage management processes (ESOA-Bundle 1.0) integration scenario.
YARD HOUND 3.0, integrated with SAP EWM, provides the following benefits to customers and solution integrators:
- Allows users to chart, view, analyze and model supply chain data retrieved directly from SAP EWM
- For customers who have implemented yard and dock capabilities, adding PINC’s YARD HOUND solution brings real-time arrivals, departures and appointments information to the SAP solution-based desktop, and allows customers to view real-time location and task information from their PINC desktops. PINC complements SAP EWM, giving customers added visibility over their operations.
- For solution integrators, this provides an opportunity to build new functionality into SAP EWM and deliver increased ROI for customers. Integrators can now work with PINC and build out integrations for their customers using PINC’s API and the new PINC code base in support of SAP solutions.
This effort is indicative of PINC’s commitment to deep integration with its customers’ operations, enterprise platforms and warehouse management systems, such as SAP EWM. To pass the stringent and exacting SAP process, PINC had to integrate its API to the SAP EWM specification (via enterprise services), build an integration including newly developed use cases, and then certify the integration on SAP EWM. This rigorous testing helps provide customers with the assurance that YARD HOUND 3.0 meets SAP certification requirements.
“Attaining SAP certification is an important step in the development of PINC Solutions’ YMS platform,” said Ken Colby, CEO for PINC Solutions. “Our customers have asked for it, and our ability to accomplish it successfully shows not only our commitment to them, but also the sophistication of PINC’s award-winning SaaS platform. We look forward to working with SAP and its customers.”
For more information about the technical aspects of YARD HOUND 3.0 integrated with SAP applications via enterprise services, click here for more information listed in the SAP Partner Information Center on sap.com.
About PINC Solutions
PINC Solutions is a leading supplier of supply chain asset visibility and yard management solutions with Fortune-500 customers in manufacturing, retail, logistics, and transportation. PINC pioneered the development of cost-effective RTLS (Real-Time Location Systems) using passive RFID technologies that minimize capital investment. PINC’s award winning products are designed with a scalable architecture for businesses of any size, and are expandable with modular components as customer needs change. Available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), PINC’s management solutions deliver immediate efficiency improvements in daily supply chain operations, typically generating positive ROIs in less than a year. For more information, please visit http://www.pincsolutions.com.
Media Contact
PINC Solutions: Rafael Granato (press@pincsolutions.com, +1 510-845-4900)
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