COI Foodservice Signs with Amphire Solutions.REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Amphire(TM) Solutions, Inc., the premier provider of supply chain management and enablement solutions, today announced that COI Foodservice Distribution, a privately owned foodservice distributor A foodservice distributor is a company that provides food and non-food products to restaurants, cafeterias, industrial caterers, and hospitals and nursing homes. A foodservice distributor functions as an intermediary between food manufacturers and the foodservice operator , has selected Amphire to deploy Amphire Connect and electronically enable transactions with its entire supplier base. COI enabled the first supplier transactions only twenty days after selecting Amphire. "COI shares Amphire's vision of a fully enabled supply chain," said Jerry Baldwin Jerry Baldwin along with Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl founded Starbucks in Seattle in 1971. Baldwin learned the coffee trade from Alfred Peet, whose store Peet's Coffee & Tea was the inspiration for Starbucks. , Senior Vice President for Sales and Supply Chain Management. "Amphire's technology platform will bring efficiencies to our supply chain that directly affect our bottom line. Over 50 percent of our suppliers are already signed with Amphire which makes Amphire a natural choice for our company." "We are pleased that COI Foodservice has decided to work with Amphire along with many other leading independent ID Top 50 distributors," said Mark Barnekow, 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 Amphire Solutions. "COI Foodservice will immediately be able to take advantage of the many benefits offered by Amphire." With Amphire Connect, COI will leverage trading relationships with over 300 leading suppliers. By converting manual processes in order management, logistics, and payment processes to Connect, COI will be able to significantly reduce costs and eliminate errors. About COI Foodservice Inc. Based in Nashville, Tennessee “Nashville” redirects here. For other uses, see Nashville (disambiguation). Nashville is the capital and the second most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee, after Memphis. , COI is a multi-facility, systems foodservice distributor and supplier which delivers to more than 1,200 restaurants in 37 states. For more information about COI Foodservice, please visit www.coifoodservice.com. About Amphire Solutions, Inc. Amphire is a provider of information management, data synchronization Keeping data in two or more computers up-to-date so that each repository contains the identical information. Data in handheld devices and laptops often require synchronization with the data in a desktop machine or server. applications and internet based supply chain optimization Supply Chain Optimization is the application of processes and tools to ensure the optimal operation of a manufacturing and distribution supply chain. This includes the optimal placement of inventory within the supply chain, minimizing operating costs (including manufacturing costs, solutions serving foodservice, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , technology, janitorial, sanitation, paper and industrial packaging trading communities. Amphire's comprehensive suite of solutions, enable the flow of transaction and critical business information between buyers and sellers. Compliant with emerging supply chain standards, Amphire's solutions allow enterprises to address fundamental industry challenges such as global data synchronization, product information management, transaction management, reporting and analytics with configurable and user friendly web-based solutions. For more information, please visit www.amphire.com. |
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