Associated Grocers, Inc. Selects Eaton Fleet Advisor Logistics Management System.CLEMMONS, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 1998-- -- Regional full-service grocery/food distributor will use Eaton system to increase its transportation fleet's productivity & efficiency Eaton Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ETN ETN Eaton Corporation (stock symbol) ETN Exchange Traded Note (investing) ETN European Travel Network ETN Electronic Tandem Network ETN Educational Telephone Network ) Trucking Information Services See Information Systems. Division (TISD TISD Texarkana Independent School District (Texas, USA) TISD Tactical Information Systems Division TISD Tactical Internet System Description TISD Theater Integrated Situation Display TISD Teacher In-Service Day ) is pleased to announce that Associated Grocers Associated Grocers is a retailers' cooperative that distributes full lines of groceries and general merchandise. Originally founded in 1934, it also provides retail services to independent groceries in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam. , Inc. -- a Baton-Rouge, Louisiana-based grocery/food distributor -- has selected the Eaton Fleet Advisor Transportation 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 System to help improve their fleet operation's efficiency and productivity in the Southeastern U.S. "After carefully investigating several companies and alternative technologies which provide transportation logistics management systems to the grocery industry, we chose the Eaton Fleet Advisor System," notes Carl D. Marks -- vice president & chief information officer for Associated Grocers, Inc. "Our decision, made by a team of cross-functional professionals within our company, is based on our confidence that the Fleet Advisor system offers us the best technology to help us continually increase our transportation operation's productivity and improve the quality of our customer service -- both now and in the future." "Fleet Advisor's real-time fleet management approach fits well with our objective to eliminate cumbersome paperwork in our operations," adds Marks. "Our teams of drivers and dispatchers will use Fleet Advisor's mobile communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry to send and receive critical route data, conduct real-time fleet status updates and eliminate paper-based trip reporting to improve labor productivity. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , this technology will enable our company -- a retailer-owned distributor -- to further improve the service level provided to our valued retail customers." "It is a pleasure for us to be selected by a grocery industry leader", says Gopal Singh, general manager of Eaton's Trucking Information Services Division. "Associated Grocers has already implemented an impressive suite of supply chain logistics management solutions which includes scheduling and routing and warehousing management systems. Fleet Advisor is the obvious next step for them to extend these productivity gains seamlessly into the transportation logistics area." Trucking fleets are using Fleet Advisor to electronically manage transportation logistics. The Fleet Advisor system eliminates time consuming paperwork by offering paperless DOT logs, paperless IFTA IFTA International Fuel Tax Agreement (trucking) IFTA International Federation of Television Archives IFTA International Federation of Thanatologists Associations IFTA Independent Film & Television Alliance compliance and paperless information flow between the drivers, dispatchers and managers. It allows fleets to dynamically route their trucks in real time, manage backhauls in real time, manage emergencies and breakdowns in real time and improve customer service in real time. Fleets can dispatch their trucks from anywhere at anytime. For more information on Eaton TISD products, contact: Eaton Corporation This article is about an industrial manufacturer. For other meanings see Eaton. Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN) is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 2006 sales of $12.4 billion, putting it at 198 on the Fortune 500 for 2007. , Trucking Information Services Division, 6209 Ramada ra·ma·da n. Southwestern U.S. 1. a. An open or semienclosed shelter roofed with brush or branches, designed especially to provide shade. b. An open porch or breezeway. 2. Drive, Clemmons, NC 27012. Phone: 1-800-423-1525. E-mail: Advisor@eaton.com/ . The Internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. for Eaton TISD is: http://www.fleetadvisor.eaton.com/ . Associated Grocers, Inc. was originally founded by a small group of independent retailers struggling to survive in the face of an onslaught of chain operators. Since its founding in 1950, the company has grown from a tiny warehouse to a 500,000 sq.ft. state-of-the-art distribution center servicing the needs of 240 retailers in Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. With annual revenue exceeding $400 million, Associated Grocers takes pride in its full service distribution capabilities, offering a complete assortment of products and related value-added services delivered with consistently superior quality. Eaton Corporation is a global manufacturer of highly engineered products that serve industrial, vehicle, construction, commercial and semiconductor markets. Principal products include electrical power distribution and control equipment, truck drivetrain systems, engine components, hydraulic products, ion implanters and a wide variety of controls. Headquartered in Cleveland, the company has 49,000 employees and 145 manufacturing sites in 28 countries around the world. Sales for 1997 were $7.6 billion. The Internet address for Eaton is: http://www.eaton.com/ .
CONTACT: Eaton Corp.
Jeff Glatus Supervisor - Product Communications
336/712-2043
E-mail: JeffAGlatus@eaton.com
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