Petter Supply Puts the Customer First With Logility Voyager Solutions WarehousePRO
11 April 2000
Petter Supply Puts the Customer First With Logility Voyager Solutions WarehousePRO
Leading industrial supplier cites customer-centric fulfillment and improved
inventory accuracy as reasons for choosing Logility WarehousePRO
ATLANTA, April 10 Logility , the leading
supplier of business-to-business (B2B) collaborative commerce solutions via
the Internet, announced today that Henry A. Petter Supply Company, has chosen
the Logility Voyager Solutions(TM) WarehousePRO(R), as their comprehensive
warehouse management system to improve receiving, picking, shipping and cross-
docking functions.
Henry A. Petter Supply Company, a leading supplier for industrial MRO
(maintenance, repair and operations) products within the marine, coal/material
handling, chemical and automotive parts industries, provides superior customer
service to excel in their highly competitive markets. "Following the customer
intimacy model defined in The Discipline of Market Leaders, we are re-
designing our fulfillment operations to accommodate growth while providing
maximum flexibility in operations to meet our customers' unique needs," said
Robert P. Petter, Jr., President of Henry A. Petter Supply Company. "Petter
Supply is fortunate to have empowered employees that know our business. What
we need is more discipline in our operations, and we believe that
WarehousePRO's use of workflows give us that."
"WarehousePRO is setting a new standard for flexibility and ease of
implementation," said Mike Edenfield, CEO of Logility. "We are pleased that a
company with a rich history of customer-focused service chose Logility as
their business partner."
With WarehousePRO, Henry A. Petter Supply Company will consolidate an
inventory of over 40,000 SKU's to achieve higher order fill rates and lower
inventory costs. WarehousePRO's workflow design will enable Petter Supply to
instill a more disciplined approach to put-away, picking and shipping, which
will improve overall productivity. And, with WarehousePRO's flexibility,
Petter Supply can now accommodate the disparate needs of its marine,
coal/material handling, chemical and automotive parts customers.
About WarehousePRO
Logility's WarehousePRO automates warehouse activities critical to
successful supply chain execution strategies. Capitalizing on its Windows
NT(TM) architecture and industry best-practices workflow technology,
WarehousePRO provides unprecedented user-configurability to reduce
implementation time and improve on-time performance, inventory turns and order
fill rates. WarehousePRO is an integrated component in the Logility Voyager
Solutions application suite for supply chain planning and execution.
About Petter Supply
Henry A. Petter Supply Company is a leading supplier for industrial MRO
products within the marine, coal/material handling, chemical and automotive
parts industries. Founded in Paducah, Kentucky in 1890, the Company's mission
is to maximize the value added to high quality, competitively priced
merchandise, while partnering with customers to give the finest service and
lowest cost possible. For more information about Henry A. Petter Supply
Company, call 1-800-326-3940 or visit http://www.petterusa.com .
About Logility
Headquartered in Atlanta, Logility provides Internet-based, easy-to-use,
B2B collaborative commerce solutions to conduct a broad range of business
processes. In addition to the Logility Voyager Solutions application suite,
the Logility i-Community(SM) enables companies to quickly reap the benefits of
collaboration with trading partners and the Logility i-Connection(SM) provides
applications hosting and management services. Logility is proud to serve such
customers as ConAgra, Heineken USA, Pharmacia & Upjohn, Reynolds Metals, Sony
Electronics, Timex and VF Corp. Logility is a certified Microsoft Solutions
Provider. For more information about Logility call 1-800-762-5207 or visit
http://www.logility.com .
WarehousePRO is a registered trademark of Logility. Logility Voyager
Solutions is a trademark of Logility. Logility i-Community and Logility
i-Connection are service marks of Logility.