Beverly Hills, CA (October 2, 2000) Motek® customer Super Store Industries (SSI), was among the 7 honorable mentions announced today by ID Systems in their First annual Supply Chain Innovator User awards. Voted on by the editors of ID Systems, the award recognizes companies that have utilized supply chain management software and hardware to improve customer service, increase visibility, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.
ID Systems evaluated the supply chain operations of 50 companies in depth focusing on benefits achieved such as increased productivity reduced lead times, decreased back logs, and other efficiencies. In the end ID Systems chose 3 winners and 7 honorable mentions and recognized both the companies and their vendors for standing apart from the rest.
"We were especially honored that SSI received the award for only the Priya WMS implementation" said Ann Price, Motek President and CEO. "All other award recipients were for a combination of strategic high level Supply Chain, order entry, and transportation systems. Motek's Priya, and specifically Priya's innovative use of RF Voice Recognition Picking, was the only tactical "4 walls" WMS system singled out by ID Systems" said Price.
SSI picks over one million cases per week in addition to Each Picks, averaging 148,000 picks per day on 107,000 order lines, with 12,500 SKUs, in a 7x24 environment. Voice recognition systems frees order selectors from handheld data collection devices; boosting productivity 25%. During peak hours, up to 200 concurrent users are served with one-second response times.
About SSI
Super Store Industries is a third party grocery warehouse that ships over one million cartons a week from its 850,000 square-foot Lathrop facility. This facility operates around the clock, seven days a week, to supply more than 300 central California and Nevada grocery stores with dry goods and frozen foods.
About ID Systems
ID Systems is the resource for supply chain automation. ID Systems and it's companion products on the Web, including an online news section and an electronic interactive Buyers Guide, cover the emerging trends, products, and technologies pertaining to supply chain management and collaboration, including enterprise software, automated data collection, and wireless networks. ID Systems, a Helmers Publishing magazine, is based in Peterborough, NH.
About Motek®
Motek provides an advanced, Windows-based, user-configurable warehouse management system that helps mid-to-large sized companies in the retail, wholesale, and third-party distribution markets save money and improve customer satisfaction by streamlining their warehouse operations. Since 1991, Motek's Priya warehouse software and technology has been leading the market in innovation, implementation time and ease-of-use. Privately owned, Motek has garnered numerous industry awards for innovation, entrepreneurship, and technical excellence, and consistently ranks as one of Southern California's fastest growing companies. Information on Motek is available at www.motek.com
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