All-Can Distribution Centres, Inc. Purchases Headwater's Delfour SmartEnterprise 2 3PL Suite for Five Facilities, Projects March Cutover.BELLEVILLE, Ontario Belleville (2006 population 48,821, metropolitan population 91,518)[1] is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in southeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County. -- All-Can Distribution Centres Inc., the Third Party Logistics (3PL) division of Belshield Corporate Group Inc., has purchased the Delfour SmartEnterprise 2 logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet suite from Headwater head·wa·ter n. The water from which a river rises; a source. Often used in the plural. Noun 1. headwater - the source of a river; "the headwaters of the Nile" Technology Solutions Inc., Markham, Ontario Markham (2006 Population 261,573[0]) is located in York Region, directly north of Toronto, and is part of Toronto's CMA. It is larger than many Canadian cities. Despite its qualifications regarding population, it has not had the title of city conferred upon it by the , to replace a largely manual internally developed legacy system, it was announced today by Corporate and Division Vice President Richard Belanger and Headwater Senior Vice President Joe E. Couto. All-Can operates more than 800,000 square feet of multi-temperature warehouse space in five facilities located in Eastern Ontario Eastern Ontario is the region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers. It shares water boundaries with Quebec, to the north and New York State to south. Population: 1,392,346 (2001), est. , providing distribution services and multi-temperature storage to national and international companies. Among these are manufacturers of food, health and beauty products, and a number of other Canadian, U.S. and European consumer product manufacturers and distributors. The software suite now being installed at All-Can includes Headwater's Delfour Enterprise Foundation integration layer, WarehouseLogic 2.1, the Active Desktop single-point process monitoring and control module, the e-Vista web-based supply chain visibility tool, the d'Amigo alerts and reporting tool, the RF communications module and the EZConnect EDI-XML e-commerce module from Headwater Business Partner ACOM (language) ACOM - An early system on the IBM 705. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. Solutions, Inc. The software will run on All-Can's Dell servers and will operate with data from an Oracle 9i relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. system. The system is expected to be operational about the end of March in one of the company's facilities, with the others rolled out over the ensuing year. "Our earlier system has been in use at the company for more than 15 years and it has always entailed extensive manual operations," Belanger said. "As we have grown and become a more complex business with broadening customer requirements, we recognized that we needed a system that allows us to interface with customers on the web, automate procedures and add high-end products and services. This new software suite has the power, performance and flexibility that will enable us to enhance our existing business relationships tremendously and also demonstrate to potential clients that we have superior IT capabilities." All-Can currently offers many standard services such as assembly and light manufacturing, inventory management, consolidated distribution and record management, but management sees significant opportunities in broadening the list, Belanger said. "We are looking to add a more sophisticated level of services such as kitting, vendor managed inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's , time-stamping for detailed audit trails, and even fourth party logistics contracts, for which Delfour has been a software system pioneer," he said. "Headwater's Delfour software solutions can facilitate all of these and more, affordably and quickly." "All-Can is one of Canada's most prominent and respected third party logistics providers," Couto noted. "SmartEnterprise 2 automates most of the warehouse management process, so its implementation will provide the company with the elevated efficiency, customer support, automation and reporting capabilities that it needs to reach whatever growth and diversification objectives it has now and in the future, wherever and however management chooses to expand." About All-Can Distribution Centres, Inc. Established in 1987, All-Can is the third party logistics division of Belshield Corporate Group Inc., a family-owned business based in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The Division operates warehouses in Belleville, Brockville and Trenton, Ontario Trenton, Ontario (2001 population 19,374) is a community on the Bay of Quinte. It is the main population centre in the municipality of Quinte West, Ontario, Canada. , providing multi-temperature, food-grade+ storage and an extensive range of value-added services. In addition to these warehouse services, All-Can offers customs bonded locations and an extensive fleet of transportation equipment, enabling the company to operate as a single-source logistics provider. For further information visit www.allcandcs.com, email info@allcandcs.com or call 613 966 0796. About Headwater Technology Solutions Inc. Headwater Technology Solutions Inc. is a diversified software development and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm that provides supply chain solutions and support for corporate and contract logistics operations, with expertise in the SAP, Microsoft and Oracle technology platforms. Headwater's highly configurable, Oracle/Java-based Delfour SmartEnterprise 2 solutions enable seamless supply chain planning and execution that leads to smarter and more profitable management of goods by third and fourth party logistics providers (3PL, 4PL). The company's allied supply chain consultation and implementation services for Fortune 500-level corporations focus on the SAP and Microsoft platforms, with special expertise in warehouse management systems (WMS WMS Warehouse Management System WMS Web Map Service (open geospatial consortium specification) WMS West Middle School (Rochester Hills, MI) WMS Workforce Management Software WMS Wechsler Memory Scale ), RF and RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. technologies, and materials management systems (MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. ). Headwater maintains corporate headquarters in the Toronto suburb of Markham and regional offices in Ottawa and Montreal. It markets its services and solutions internationally. For more information, call 866 306 0999, email info@headwater.ca or visit www.headwaterinc.com. |
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