ADVISORY/WhereNet Senior Vice President, Tom Turner, to Present Ford Motor Company Case Study At the Supply-Chain World North America Conference and Exposition.Business Editors and High Tech Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (April 3) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Members of the media are invited to hear Tom Turner, senior vice president of WhereNet(R) Corp., speak Tues., April 3 at the Supply-Chain World - North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Conference and Exposition, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hilton New Orleans Riverside, located at 2 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, is a 29-story, 341 feet (104 m)-tall skyscraper. , in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded , Louisiana. WhereNet, the worldwide leader in wireless supply chain visibility solutions, will be one of the featured companies at the Supply-Chain World - North America Conference and Exposition. The Supply-Chain World - North America Conference and Exposition, presented by the Supply Chain Council, will bring together supply chain leaders to keep them abreast of the significant changes taking place in global supply chain management, accelerated by the Internet and eBusiness. Turner will participate in a session titled, "Technology that Supports the Supply Chain - A Ford Motor Company Case Study." During this breakout "illustrations" session, Turner will discuss supply chain inventory control solutions for successfully tracking critical assets associated with production throughout the entire supply chain, particularly as experienced at Ford Motor Company. This session is scheduled for Tues., April 3 at 10 a.m. at the Supply-Chain World - North America Conference and Exposition, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. WhereNet is the first company to design, build, and market supply chain visibility solutions for locating, tracking, and managing supply chain resources. WhereNet systems are being used by several major Fortune 500 companies including Ford Motor Company and Coca-Cola, to manage inventory, track containers, monitor job orders, connect wireless call (Kanban Meaning "visible record" in Japanese, it is a system of notification from one process to the other in a manufacturing system. Kanban cards, which may be multicolored based on priority, are stored in a bin or container that holds the items. They describe the parts, supplier and quantity. ) systems, locate property, ensure quality processes, and provide personal safety. WhereNet's Web-enabled solutions seamlessly connect an enterprise's resources and assets to its information system in real time. When and Where Attendees of the Supply-Chain World - North America Conference and Exposition can hear Turner's session, "Technology that Supports the Supply Chain - A Ford Motor Company Case Study," on Tues., April 3, 2001 at 10 a.m. at the Supply-Chain World-North America Conference and Exposition, at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information about the Supply-Chain World - North America Conference and Exposition, visit their Web site at: http://www.supplychainworld.org/na2001/na_2001.htm About Tom Turner Tom Turner, WhereNet senior vice president, joined WhereNet in 1999 from Datamax Corporation, a leading supplier of products and services for the bar code industry, where he was president and director for five years. Under Turner's leadership, Datamax grew the bar code printer business five-fold, expanded the product line, and earned recognition for the development of international business in the form of the U.S. Presidential "E Award" for Export Excellence. Prior to Datamax, he was senior vice president-North America for Symbol Technologies, where he managed the transition of Symbol to a system supplier of wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area products for data collection, and more than doubled the business. Earlier in his career, Turner held various positions with Wang Laboratories Wang Laboratories - Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994). including director of sales and marketing for Wang Australia where he led the sales team that secured the largest order in Wang's history at that time. He also served as president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Wang Canada where he turned around the subsidiary to profitability and grew the Canadian business Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933. , at a time when U.S. operations was losing market share. He earned a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University Tufts University, main campus at Medford, Mass.; coeducational; chartered 1852 by Universalists as a college for men. It became a university in 1955. Jackson College, formerly a coordinate undergraduate college for women, merged with the College of Liberal Arts in . About WhereNet Corp. WhereNet Corp., winner of last year's Henry Ford Technology Award, is the first company to design, build, and market wireless Supply Chain Visibility solutions for locating, tracking, and managing supply chain resources, critical to success in today's competitive global business environment. WhereNet systems seamlessly connect a company's resources to its information systems, in real time. WhereNet's real-time locating and tracking technology utilize patented advances in spread-spectrum wireless technology to provide the ability to locate any tagged object with accuracy within 10 feet (3 meters). The result is constant, on-demand information about valuable assets in the supply chain, their physical location, and status. Driven by wireless tags, fixed position antennas and Web-enabled software, WhereNet's real-time solutions offer lower operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , improved return-on-assets, and higher levels of customer service for some of the World's leading companies such as Ford Motor Company, Coca Cola and FMC See fixed mobile convergence. . Founded in 1997, WhereNet is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , with sales offices throughout the United States and Europe. Information is available on the WhereNet Web site at www.wherenet.com or by calling 408-845-8500. WhereNet(R) is a registered trademark of WhereNet Corp. All other brands, products, or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of, and are used to identify, products or services of their respective owners. |
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