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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To achieve greater efficiencies in your supply chain, you must increase real-time visibility. But while many companies have made significant investments to manage warehouses and track transportation assets, few realize that transportation delays take place not on the road, but while assets are still in the yards at the distribution centers, warehouses and manufacturing plants.

At the 2011 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference the results of their industry research showed that the number one imperative for supply chain executives today is supply chain efficiency and a key impediment to that goal is the lack of real-time visibility information.* 

Closing the visibility gap that commonly exists in the yards has become the next imperative for any companies seeking to become best in class in their supply chain logistics performance.

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What key questions will be addressed?

- Latest trends in yard management systems.

- How lack of visibility in the yards impacts the whole supply chain, inventory levels, and order cycles.

- What industry leading companies are doing to solve this challenge.

- How technology is enabling global companies to gain real-time visibility to their trailers and shipments across the supply chain, increases trailer utilization, and reduces labor and fuel costs.

Featured Speakers: 
– Dwight Klappich, VP, Research, Gartner 
– Aleks Gollu, Ph.D.,  CTO and Founder, PINC Solutions

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