| Largest Foodservice Software Developer
Chooses InterGis for Routing and GPS Solutions |
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Torrington, CT – InterGis and NECS, Inc. announced an agreement
today to integrate and jointly market InterGis’ routing software
solution with NECS’ extremely successful software for the
foodservice distribution industry. With 1,500 foodservice
distributors running their business on NECS software and a
history that dates back to 1987, the Company boasts the largest
installed base of users in the industry. NECS software features
include inventory control, order entry, accounts receivable,
purchasing, accounts payable, general ledger and commissions.
Customers are based in the United States, Canada and Puerto
Rico. InterGis is the premier developer of routing, scheduling
and dispatching software solutions, including its Visual Control
Room (VCR) product for companies providing delivery operations.
Visual Control Room automates routing, scheduling, dispatching,
and route/territory planning, while reducing transportation
costs and creating the most efficient delivery routes and
work schedules possible.
“We’re excited about the automation that the InterGis solution
will bring to our customers for the routing component in our
software,” commented Chris Anatra, president, NECS. “Our customers
are either full line distributors, with over 10,000 line items,
or specialty distributors such as meat, cheese, poultry, seafood
or produce. They typically run 10-20 trucks with 20-30 stops/day
to supply restaurants, schools, grocery and convenience stores.
The current routing solution in our software provides a manual
process that allows dispatchers to create and modify truck
routes based on the needs of the day. Because it’s manual,
it depends on the dispatchers knowledge of the customers needs
and location. InterGis’ Visual Control Room will change all
that – the system does the thinking and automatically generates
the best routes while accounting for individual customer needs
– and handles it all much quicker than a manual system. This
fits nicely with our determination to deliver easy, simple
solutions for our customers, many of whom migrate to computers
paper-based methods for the first time with one of our systems”
“For almost 10 years, InterGis has been selling Visual Control
Room (VCR) and bringing significant improvements in operational
efficiencies by providing automated routing, scheduling and
dispatching solutions to companies delivering products,” said
InterGis president, Steven Brown. “Our relationship with NECS
is part of our strategic focus to broaden our reach by integrating
VCR into other best-of-class products where a solid solution
is already in-place with a significant user base. NECS is
a perfect fit.”
NECS is a privately held company headquartered in Madison,
CT. NECS employees are dedicated and focused on one purpose
only: serving the needs of food distributors. The average
size NECS customer has sales of $25 million per year, with
all customers ranging in size from smaller distributors with
sales revenues of $3 million per year, up to distributors
with sales approaching $200 million per year. NECS has been
successful because of the system's ease of use and simplicity.
Typical NECS customers comment on how quickly and easily their
office staff got up-to-speed and felt comfortable with the
system.
InterGis creates and markets proprietary software solutions
that perform automated routing, scheduling and vehicle optimization
for companies who have transportation, delivery or distribution
fleets and for companies who have field service or mobile
workers. InterGis products are designed to bring cost-saving,
operational efficiencies to these businesses by providing
software that produces the least cost assignment and best
utilization of resources of work to be done, through a suite
of easy-to-use, visual/graphic tools. InterGis also offers
their software to developers and other business associates
who are looking to form partnerships in marketing complete
solutions, or use the routing, scheduling and mapping engine
within their own software applications.
For more information, contact InterGis at 860.496.4900 or
email sales@intergis.com
For more information about NECS and NECS software solutions,
visit the company’s Web site at: www.necs.com, or call Chris
Anatra or Harold Haynes at 800.766.6327.
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For more information, contact InterGis at 860.496.4900, sales@intergis.com
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