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- AWARD - 2011 FL100 Food Logistics Magazine
- PINC Solutions is selected FL100 Software and Technology Provider by Food Logistics Magazine
- California Freight Yard Tracks Trailers Via RFID - RFID Journal magazine
- DSC Logistics improves information visibility for customers and carriers while improving yard operations through the use of PINC Solutions
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AWARD - 2011 FL100 Food Logistics Magazine
Food Logistics Magazine by Katherine Dohrety
“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.”
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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California Freight Yard Tracks Trailers Via RFID - RFID Journal magazine
RFID Journal magazine, the world's leading source of RFID news and insights, recently published an article about how a leading third-party logistics company, DSC Logistics, is reducing costs and better collaborating with trading partners through the use of an advanced yard management solution. If you'd like to read the entire article please click here.
"DSC Logistics uses RFID readers on its yard truck, and at its gate, to monitor where each trailer is located, and then shares that data with customers and freight carriers.
At the California location, O'Reilly says, the PINC system has enabled the company to achieve savings by increasing the yard-goat drivers' productivity, reducing average travel distance within the yard, streamlining communication between drivers and the shipping office, and eliminating the manual yard-check process. Another benefit, he adds, is the ability to share data with freight carriers and customers, which need simply log into the DSC Logistics' PINC Web site, enter a password, access a dashboard displaying each trailer's status (such as received, unloaded or shipped) and view its location as an icon on a yard map. The system can send notifications to customers, either via an update on their dashboard as they sign in, or via an e-mail indicating when a specific action has occurred, such as a change in a trailer's load status. In addition, operators can utilize the system to resolve detention claims from their carriers—in the event that a shipment is late, for example—since the data indicates the trailer's exact location, when it was at that site and for how long.
Based on the solution's success to date, O'Reilly says, DSC Logistics is currently preparing to deploy the technology at two other sites—one in Pennsylvania and one in Virginia—during the first quarter of this year. "
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http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/view/9100/1
DSC Logistics, a leading third party logistics (3PL) provider, selects PINC Solutions’ advanced yard management to increase speed, control, and productivity at their Mira Loma, California, Logistics Center.
Berkeley, CA – December 13, 2011 - DSC Logistics, an award-winning third-party logistics provider, has selected PINC Solutions, the leading provider of advanced yard management and supply chain visibility solutions, to provide visibility and improve facility operations at DSC‘s Mira Loma, California, Logistics Center.
PINC Solutions’ advanced yard and supply chain solutions are enabling third-party logistics companies, manufacturers, retailers, and carriers to gain real-time visibility of their trailers and shipments across the supply chain, which results in higher efficiency and less cost.
“We continue to be dedicated to our customer’s success by exploring new options to increase visibility and lower costs in our customers’ supply chain,” commented Ken Heller, DSC’s senior vice president of Supply Chain Excellence. “And PINC’s real-time visibility helps us operate our Mira Loma site more efficiently allowing us to provide a higher level of service to our customers, as well as reduced detention and demurrage fees, labor, and fuel costs.”
“The DSC Logistics team is dedicated to providing the best service possible in a cost-effective manner to their customers. One of the key ways they accomplish this is through the innovative use of technology.” said Ken Colby, PINC Solutions CEO. “We are proud they have selected PINC Solutions as one of those technologies, and are very pleased to have them as a customer and business partner.”
About PINC Solutions
PINC Solutions is the leading provider of advanced yard management and real-time 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 ROIs in less than a year. For more information, please visit www.pincsolutions.com.
About DSC Logistics
DSC Logistics, a leading supply chain management company, focuses on designing, integrating, managing, and adapting supply chain solutions. DSC capabilities as a Lead Logistics Partner (LLP) and third-party provider (3PL) include supply chain analysis and design, network optimization and management, Logistics Center management, transportation management and consolidation, business process integration, supply chain visibility, and value-added services. In today’s environment, filled with rapid and unpredictable change, DSC helps customers achieve their goals by being ready for anything! For more information, please visit www.dsclogistics.com.
Media Contact
Rafael Granato - Marketing Communications Manager
+1(510)845-4900 - press@pincsolutions.com
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TECHNOLOGY REVIEW | YARD MANAGEMENT - Taming the trucks - DC Velocity magazine
"Looking to bring order to a chaotic freight yard? There's an app for that.
"Gollu adds that yard management systems also allow users to collaborate across organizations in an effort to improve inventory management. For example, he says, when a food manufacturer ships to a grocer's DC, a typical move includes substantial idle time. "If a trailer is idling for 12 to 14 hours at the source and the same at the destination, that's a day's worth of inventory we could take out," he argues."
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