89 New Sites Live With Provia In 2005
Provia Software, a leading provider of order-to-delivery supply chain execution software, announced today that the company capped off 2005 with almost 90 customer sites going live. The go-lives were a combination of new and upgraded sites worldwide, and covered a variety of industries, including third party logistics (3PL, frozen, cold and dry storage), consumer packaged goods (CPG), wholesale/industrial distribution, food & beverage and high-tech/electronics.
In addition to new sites leveraging Provia's software, a number of the company's existing customers added additional Provia software products to their logistics strategies, further demonstrating Provia's continued success in attracting new and existing customers with its ability to provide powerful supply chain execution solutions, while maintaining a low total cost of ownership. Among Provia's current customers, 17 also upgraded their solutions.
"Adding new customers, while having existing customers add new sites and license additional products, is a key success factor for Provia," said Ken Lewis, Provia president and CEO. "These partnerships give us a strong balance and reinforce our long term commitment to each customer every time they make a conscious decision to continue working with us."
A total of 35 new and existing Provia customers added new sites or products, or completed upgrades in 2005. In addition, Provia's Latin American distributor, Tecsys Latin America (TLA), had its most successful year ever licensing Provia's products in the region, adding 7 new customers.
Aside from Provia's customer activity, the main highlight of the year was the release of ViaWare WMS 7.0, the latest version of its industry-leading Warehouse Management System (WMS), and core component of the company's ViaWare supply chain execution suite. A key element of ViaWare WMS 7.0 is its underlying Service Orientated Architecture (SOA), which provides integrated business intelligence and personalization capabilities, and allows for extended breadth and depth of the WMS. With SOA, ViaWare WMS can easily be integrated into an existing IT and supply chain solution environment.
"Adding Service Orientated Architecture to ViaWare is a huge leap for the WMS industry, as companies can tailor the WMS to their specific needs instead of waiting for them to come in a new release, yet stay on a standard product upgrade path," said Lewis. "We also added Personalization capabilities to ViaWare WMS to provide end user adaptability for the desktop, Radio Frequency (RF), and mobile devices so users can easily setup and adapt menus, screens, language, reports, mobile device dialogs and field level access to meet changing operational and customer requirements and achieve a faster return-on-investment and subsequently realize measurable, ongoing cost savings."
About Provia Software
With over 500 global installations, Provia Software delivers The Power of Delivery™ for such customers as Menlo Worldwide, Spencer Gifts, Versacold, Gillette, Total Logistic Control, TaylorMade-adidas Golf and Lanier Worldwide. The foundation of Provia's Supply Chain Execution solutions is ViaWare WMS, a full-featured, RFID-enabled warehouse management system. Additional supply chain execution modules include host integration, small parcel shipping, transportation management, 3PL order management, constraint-based optimization, and labor management products seamlessly integrated together with web-based event/alert visibility tools to create a complete, real-time, end-to-end supply chain execution solution. For more information on Provia, visit www.provia.com or call toll-free 1-877-PROVIA1 (1-877-776-8421).