Distributed Order Fulfillment Market is Heating Up; Best-of-Breed Vendors Take Early Dominance in Space

Business Wire, Nov 6, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2001

Jon Kirkegaard, EVP Operations of Vizional Technologies, Available to

Discuss How Distributed Inventory Order Fulfillment Systems Deliver

Supply Chain Synchronization

According to the newly released report by AMR Research, Managing Order Fulfillment Across the Supply Chain, the widespread corporate adoption of the Internet and Business-to-Business (B2B) strategies has highlighted the severe limitations of the manual distributed order fulfillment processes prevalent in many companies. B2B adoption has led to the emergence of distributed order fulfillment systems, a new class of enterprise-level applications built upon a many-to-many exchange platform and typically deployed through a private exchange. Command and control centers coordinate, synchronize, and direct disparate systems to achieve multi-enterprise order fulfillment, providing all involved parties with true order and inventory visibility.

Distributed order fulfillment applications are ideally suited for third party logistics (3PL) providers, given the complex supply networks that they manage for their clients and the vast number of system-to-system connections they maintain. 3PL providers require a system to aggregate real-time inventory information across their entire networks, link to supplier data, and manage orders from their customers.

According to AMR, as the need grows to coordinate, synchronize, and control the fulfillment process of an order across corporate divisions and external partners, the battle for dominance in the new distributed order fulfillment space is heating up and the early lead goes to the smaller, yet best-of-breed vendors. Despite moves by heavyweights to develop this new technology, it's the smaller vendors that are leading the way with real products and real customers.

One such best-of-breed distributed inventory and order fulfillment vendor leading the market with real products and customers is Vizional Technologies, a pioneering provider of supply chain synchronization solutions. Vizional delivers competitive advantage to its customers with VizionalNet(TM) collaborative commerce technology, which provides businesses with complete visibility and monitoring of their order fulfillment processes, while enabling a single view of distributed operational inventory.

Jon Kirkegaard, EVP Operations of Vizional Technologies, is available to comment on AMR's findings and can discuss how companies can best use order fulfillment solutions to take control of distributed order fulfillment and inventory management.

For More Information:

To arrange an interview with Jon Kirkegaard, please contact Trish Gannon or Erik Clausen at 781-684-0770 or vizional@schwartz-pr.com. For more information on Vizional Technologies, visit www.vizional.com.