Airclic in the News
Transport Perform, a cloud-based, mobile supply chain software for third-party logistics providers (3PLs) from Airclic has been updated.
Airclic, a provider of cloud-based software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, announced its next release of Transport Perform for third party logistics providers (3PLs).
Airclic announced that Xata Turnpike, a compliance device for electronic driver logs, will now be available as an integrated feature in its Food Perform and Order Perform mobile supply chain products for the foodservice and retail industries, respectively.
Automatic identification technologies have certainly found a home in logistics, from first mile to last mile, and in the warehouse. There, such technology is much more than an aid to pulling and picking. Auto-ID tech now makes everything in such facilities much smarter.
Mike Lee, CEO of Airclic, talks about why IT investments can help transportation and distribution
Written by Mike Lee, CEO of Airclic
Over the last few years, third party logistics providers (3PLs) have acknowledged the importance of mobile technology in maximizing the efficiency and productivity of their supply chain and logistics operations. However, according to the 2010 3PL Study, only 54 percent of companies are satisfied with their IT capabilities. This gap between the recognized value of mobile solutions and lack of satisfaction with current IT support indicates the need for further investment in mobile technologies.
One could argue that manufacturing helped spark today’s mobile world. Decades ago — long before the iPhone or Android — manufacturers needed better ways to put data in the hands of their plant floor and supply chain employees. Ironically, but not surprisingly, the world is caught up in the consumer side of the market, drooling over a new device every week. But manufacturers are also going mobile — whether it’s for inventory control, dealing with customer orders, or managing employees — with a growing network of software providers that are riding on the consumer wave. As more manufacturing workers purchase their own mobile devices, the software will be easier to disseminate, and no longer will manufacturing data be tucked away in some forgotten corner of the production area.
The phenomenal acceptance rate of smartphones and tablet devices among the general public is slowly creeping its way into trucking. Fleets have long sought out technology to streamline operations, but now many are also finding that by putting these devices into the hands of their employees, not only do they have more efficient operations, they also have happier employees.
Tablet Integration Succeeds When Business Conditions Are Met
Despite being marketed primarily for the consumer market, tablets have edged their way into enterprises alongside conventional laptops and other devices designed for business use. As IT managers discovered with Apple’s iPhone, employees tend to bring their personal devices into the workplace regardless of com- pany policies. However, like the iPhone, the iPad and other tablets are carving a niche in the enterprise space that’s helping the devices to develop a relatively solid business reputation.
Daniel Corwin of New York City has been named senior vice president of sales and Matthew Foroughi of Philadelphia, vice president of software as a service operations, at Airclic, a Bensalem company that provides mobile supply chain and logistics software.
AirClic Inc., a Trevose provider of software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has appointed Daniel Corwin senior vice president of sales and Matthew Foroughi as vice president of software as a service operations.
Mike Lee, CEO, Airclic
The Food and Drug Administration is poised to release the first of its new regulations since the passage of the Food Safety and Modernization Act, and the food industry is preparing its own actions to improve overall food safety and prevent foodborne illnesses. Food Manufacturing spoke with Mike Lee of Airclic about some of the new technology available to manufacturers for enhancing food safety.
We talk a lot about the challenges of managing a field force — not the least of which is making sure that your mobile workers are doing what they’re supposed to when they’re out of your sight. But what about managing a workforce that is always out of sight? The difficulty of validating their work is amplified when your field workers are permanently assigned to a customer location.
Congratulations to AirClic and Soti, Inc. for being recognized as Intermec’s 2010 ISV partners of the year in the Americas and EMEA respectively. Both of these organizations have set a new standard for collaborating with Intermec and our partner community to create best in class solutions for our mutual customers.
Airclic has launched its Fresh Perform product, which automates in-store inventory processes for foodservice operators, resulting in savings, efficiencies, and traceability.
Airclic announced that it has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2010 North American Product Line Strategy of the Year Award in Mobile Enterprise Applications. Frost & Sullivan, which conducted an in-depth comprehensive analysis of Airclic and its competitors, says Airclic was chosen for its extensive product line, size of addressable customer base, impact on customer value and market share, breadth of applications and markets served.
Software-as-a-Service enables asset-light technology
Transportation companies increasingly are delivering mobile applications faster and more easily using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or hosted model. At the forefront of this trend are carriers, brokers and logistics providers using noncompany assets and drivers to capture and manage shipment information.
Communication is vital to maintain profitability and effectiveness in home health care agencies. Home Health Line, the nation’s leading independent authority on home health care business, reports that up to 70 percent of agencies still rely on manual methods to track and schedule home health care aides’ patient visits. These methods would be much more efficient if they were automated with a mobile solution.
Airclic has upgraded its Courier Perform product to include virtual cross-dock functionality to shorten delivery times and reduce costs for couriers/3PLs (third-party logistics providers). Cross-dock is a technique commonly used by distributors to increase efficiency of logistics operations. The process involves unloading materials from an incoming truck and loading it back onto an outgoing truck—without involving any storage in between.
A new “virtual cross-dock” functionality has been added to Courier Perform, creating more visibility into the delivery process for couriers. Courier Perform, offered by mobile software provider Airclic, provides visibility and order tracking capabilities down to the item level.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – AAHomecare last week ran full page ads blasting competitive bidding in Politico, a widely read Capitol Hill newspaper. The ads feature the full text of the recent letter from 167 economists criticizing the program. The top of the ad reads: “In Letter to Congress, Economists and Auction Experts Predict Medicare Bidding System for Medical Equipment Will Fail.” The ads will reach thousands of readers in Washington, D.C., including members of Congress and their staffs, according to the association. The ads were funded by the “Stand Up for Homecare” campaign.
Airclic, a global provider of software that improves the performance of mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has upgraded its Mobile Performance Platform to take advantage of the most recent Android development updates to further expand its product deployment on the Android operating system.
Airclic has launched Food Perform – a comprehensive, SaaS-based product for improved delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
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Airclic Inc. and AirVersent Inc., which both produce software for supply chain management and logistics operations, have merged, a joint statement said.
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Software provider Airclic has launched Food Perform, an SaaS-based product for improved delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
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Software provider Airclic has launched Food Perform, an SaaS-based product for improved delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
The courier industry is an $80 billion industry that consists of large, dominant players such as UPS, Fed-Ex and USPS, which are responsible for $72 billion of this revenue. The remaining $8 billion is divided between mid-sized couriers ($2.8 billion) and small local couriers who are responsible for the remaining $5.2 billion. Although there is a significant industry gap, the smaller couriers are still competitive in their regions where they can offer same-day delivery where the big players cannot.
Airclic Inc., a vendor of software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has launched Food Perform, a hosted software application for managing delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
Airclic Inc., a vendor of software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has launched Food Perform, a hosted software application for managing delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry. Formerly known as 20/20 Delivery for Food Distribution, the new offering aims to improve visibility in the mobile supply chain, eliminate paperwork and remove manual data-entry processes.
Airclic Inc., a vendor of software for mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has launched Food Perform, a hosted software application for managing delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry. Formerly known as 20/20 Delivery for Food Distribution, the new offering aims to improve visibility in the mobile supply chain, eliminate paperwork and remove manual data-entry processes.
Rick Ponün, Airclic’s chief executive officer, will be CEO of the new company, and Michael Lee, AirVersent’s CEO and founder, will serve as president, the statement said.
Making User Adoption of Mobility a Reality
By Steve Tremitiere, VP of Industry Solutions for AirClic
The value of leveraging mobile technology to drive efficiencies, reduce costs and streamline workflow processes within the cargo industry is a no-brainer. What is much less obvious is how to create and deploy mobile solutions that allow you to meet these objectives, primarily due to the challenge of user adoption. There are a number of key best practices that can be utilized to maximize user buy-in and ensure a successful implementation.
Trevose, PA: Airclic, a global provider of software that improves the performance of mobile supply chain and logistics operations, has launched Food Perform, a comprehensive, SaaS-based product for improved delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
Airclic launched Food Perform, a SaaS-based product for improved delivery and payment processing in the food distribution industry.
Airclic has released Food Perform, a Software-as-a-Service product that the company said will improve delivery and speed payment processing for carriers in the food distribution industry.
Order Perform, for order management and delivery optimization, is a SaaS-based mobile software product specifically design for the auto parts distributors to track orders, deliveries and employees in real-time to improve efficiencies, productivity and customer satisfaction. The auto parts distributor market is the first of many industries this solution will address.
Rick Pontin is the CEO of Airclic, a global provider of mobile software products that improve the performance of supply chain, logistics and field service operations.
Pontin is a 25-year software and technology veteran, and previous executive chairman of Tangoe, a global provider of Communications Lifecycle Management software and services to the Global 500.
What better way to get greater productivity from your mobile workforce than by equipping it with the proper technology, Steve Tremitiere, vice president of sales at Airclic, asks. And the comparatively low cost is a key advantage of such solutions. [Run Time (Min:) 8:48]
In order to recognize the fastest growing technology companies in Pennsylvania, Lead411 is proud to announce the release of its “Hottest Pennsylvania Companies” award. Airclic has been chosen by Lead411 as one of the Hottest Companies in Pennsylvania.
Airclic Inc. and AirVersent Inc. said Tuesday they have merged but didn’t disclose the terms of the merger.
Airclic of Trevose, Pa., develops software for mobile supply-chain and logistics operations. AirVersent, which has its headquarters in Owings Mills, Md., develops software used to provide visibility and control across the mobile supply chain.
Another mobile supply chain and logistics deal emerges, pairing two East Coast, high-tech platforms.
Airclic and AirVersent, Pennsylvania and Maryland-based companies, both privately-held and operating in the mobile supply chain space, will merge for terms undisclosed, the companies announced.
Jul 14, 2010 (Datamonitor Financial Deals Tracker via COMTEX) — AirClic, Inc., a web-based software and mobile information services company, has merged with Airversent, Inc., a provider of software-as-a-service products. Both the parties involved in the transaction are based in the US.
Airclic, a global leader of software products that improve the performance of mobile supply chain management and logistics operations, and AirVersent, a leader in providing visibility and control across the mobile supply chain, today announced the successful merger of the two companies.
Software provider Airclic has merged its mobile supply chain management and logistics operations with AirVersent, a provider of visibility and control within supply chains. The new company will operate under the Airclic name and offer Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products that automate the supply chain and logistics operations. The new company will have more than 270 customers.
Airclic Inc. and AirVersent Inc. said Tuesday they have merged but didn’t disclose the terms of the merger.
Airclic of Trevose, Pa., develops software for mobile supply-chain and logistics operations. AirVersent, which has its headquarters in Owings Mills, Md., develops software used to provide visibility and control across the mobile supply chain.
Mobility software companies Airclic and AirVersent announced Tuesday that they are merging. The combined company will operate under the Airclic brand.
Airclic and AirVersent have joined forces to create a leading mobile supply chain and logistics software provider
Airclic, a provider of software products that improve the performance of mobile supply chain management and logistics operations, announced the merger of the two companies.
Airclic, a global provider of software products designed to improve the performance of mobile supply chain management and logistics operations, and AirVersent, a provider of products designed to enhance visibility and control across the mobile supply chain, on Tuesday, July 13, announced the successful merger of the two companies. Terms were not released.
Order Perform Perks – The auto parts industry has three key challenges –order accuracy, availability and speed. Airclic has released Order Perform, a business software package that helps aftermarket resellers to best manager their inventory, therefore increasing sales, efficiency and profits. Order Perform reduces data errors by automating cumbersome manual processes such as order tracking and invoicing, leading to enhanced customer transparency and improved quality and speed of service.
Tracey Ellis has been promoted to VP of marketing for mobile software provider Airclic. Ellis had been the Company’s senior director-marketing and has been with Airclic since 2006, when she joined the company as director of sales & marketing operations.
Effective supply chain management is critical and directly impacts a company’s bottom line. Companies are beginning to realize the performance potential of their supply chains lies in achieving visibility into their operations. By extending supply chain solutions with mobile technology, organizations gain real-time visibility into the portion of their supply chain outside the four walls, reducing costs, improving business performance, and delivering a competitive advantage.
What’s the buzz on specimen collection and transport? Two words: color coding. Color coding in labs is extremely useful when used to distinguish between different types of testing. Color provides a visual clue that works faster than text alone. By adding color coding to barcode labels, you can speed up storage and retrieval time, eliminate human errors, and reduce the risk of lost samples for overall increased employee efficiency and productivity.
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Learn how to make user adoption of mobility a reality from our VP of Industry Solutions, Steve Tremitiere
A four-part webinar series kicks off on Thursday May 20 on how leveraging mobile software products can maximize productivity and efficiencies. The first webinar, titled “Mobility that Performs: Leveraging Mobile Solutions to Improve Efficiency and Productivity,” will delve into how to determine what mobility requirements an organization needs and how to ensure a successful product rollout. The webinar starts at 11 a.m. EDT. Future webinars in the series will be industry-focused and discuss how mobile software can improve operations in the courier, medical specimen transport and auto parts distribution industries.
Airclic, Inc., a vendor of mobile software for supply-chain, logistics and field-service operations, has launched its Mobile Performance Platform. The tool is the centerpiece of the company’s new Perform product line, a series of industry-specific applications for the real-time tracking of people, assets and activities. According to Airclic, the platform helps companies to reduce costs, improve service delivery and increase customer retention.
Airclic, a global provider of mobile software products designed to improve performance of supply chain, logistics and field service operations, announced the launch of its Mobile Performance Platform.
The next generation of GPS systems will offer more than just location data.
Your driver pulls up to the warehouse, finds the correct bay and backs in. It’s a scene repeated thousands of times every day all over North America. It’s as routine a part of any trucker’s job as there is. But it’s not only what happens during that time, but what happens before and after that delivery is made that determines how productive that driver is. How long did it take for him to get there? Where does he go next? How soon until he arrives? Will the customer be waiting? Will he be waiting?
TREVOSE — One of the area’s oldest wireless applications companies has turned to a telecom-industry veteran with expertise in growing companies to help it capitalize on the boom in mobile technology.
Flexible screen views are one of the hallmarks of updated dispatch software systems. With Windows, Java and similar software platforms, users are able to move and resize columns and add color coding, icons and other visualization tools to put more information onto one screen without taking up additional real estate.
AMID ONE OF THE DARKEST FINANCIAL periods in airline industry history, there is one positive trend about which carriers can boast: The number of mishandled bags appears to have dropped considerably over the past two years. “Losing” luggage long has been one of the industry’s trouble spots, leading to added expense and a widespread belief that airlines are incompetent baggage handlers.
According to an iGroup survey of information technology decision makers, enterprise mobility solutions are set to increase in 2010, and the healthcare industry is leading the growth in mobility solution adoption.
My, how the business “beauty pageant” is changing. Attendees of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic’s Demo Night today will vote on the best presentations, not by a show of hands or secret ballot, but with a touch on their mobile devices.
TREVOSE, PA — AirClic, a leading mobile solutions provider for business operations, announced that Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. (BRLI) the third largest full-service lab in the US realized ROI on its $100,000 investment in AirClic technology within seven months of its deployment.
CEO Tim Bradley has seen the epiphany so often the last couple of years, he now refers to it as the “AirClic moment.” It’s when a company using a single mobile application from the Trevose-based outfit realizes he can automate many different functions that will improve customer service and experience.
Delta Cargo informed its customers Thursday that implementation of a mobile scanning system will begin in December at the airline’s main cargo facility in Atlanta.
AirClic Inc. recently celebrated its move here from smaller headquarters in Newtown.
If its CEO, Tim Bradley, has his way, the developer of mobile business applications will be celebrating a much bigger event in a few years.“Our goal is to be No. 1 in the space and to take the company public,” Bradley said.
A recent “Tech Report” in Heavy Duty Trucking features AirClic’s state-of-the-art mobile tracking solution that gives Wessin Transport real-time visibility of their shipments throughout the upper Midwest and Eastern seaboard. Find out why Wessin’s Manager of Information Systems declares, “We’ve been waiting for something like this for 30 years!”
Business Fleet Magazine describes how Intermountain Express, an auto parts supplier serving repair shops in 300 Western US cities, has radically improved its freight tracking system using AirClic’s customized mobile tracking solution. The AirClic system saves Intermountain between $15,000 and $20,000 every month in lost freight expenses.
Major enterprises have bought into the notion that mobile wireless technology creates greater efficiencies by automating key business processes. But they are still on the cusp of understanding how an entire mobile strategy — not just pointtype mobile applications — can transform their businesses.
One of the benefits of working in a medium that covers technology every day is that you get an early look at a lot of up-and-coming technology that offers a lot of promise. Of course, most of that promise will never be realized if the companies building the technology never develop an effective route to market, but as we come to the close of 2007, here’s a list of 10 technologies worth keeping an eye on in 2008.
Newark – Only Company in Printing/MFP Industry to be Recognized for 2007 Award
RAMSEY – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc. (Konica Minolta), a leading provider of advanced imaging and networking technologies, today announced that it has been recognized by CIO magazine as one of the CIO 100 Award Honorees for 2007. The 20th annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT).
The June 2007 issue of Integrated Solutions features a story on AirClic’s solution for Worldwide Flight Services (WFS). It illustrates how AirClic has helped the company significantly increase accountability and credibility with British Airways, leading WFS to be named one of the airline’s valued partners and a recipient of the coveted British Airways Innovation Award in 2005 for its outstanding use of technology in meeting its service commitments.
AMID ONE OF THE DARKEST FINANCIAL periods in airline industry history, there is one positive trend about which carriers can boast: The number of mishandled bags appears to have dropped considerably over the past two years. “Losing” luggage long has been one of the industry’s trouble spots, leading to added expense and a widespread belief that airlines are incompetent baggage handlers.
Computerworld – Over the past 35 years, my long-suffering wife has had to tolerate my many peculiar habits, not the least of which is my hatred for left-hand turns while driving. So when we were watching ABC News one evening last month and saw the story about how UPS drivers use a wireless location-based application to avoid left-hand turns and thus save gas, I felt vindicated. I might even have made some crack about my genius behind the wheel.
Allen Concrete was highlighted in Business Fleet Magazine in an article on GPS tracking. The company has successfully implemented the AirClic solution to help them track time and attendance from their remote work sites, efficiently, accurately, and instantly.
The November issue of OPTIMIZE, Information Week’s journal for CIO’s, featured Konica Minolta’s highly successful deployment of AirClic MP. Since rolling out the application to its 1,500 field service workers, Konica Minolta has accelerated its repair service; reduced paperwork, gained real-time management of its customer service process, and decreased inventory shrinkage by a factor of five. Read the article
Mobile Enterprise magazine has awarded AirClic customer Konica Minolta with an Honorable Mention in its annual Mobilizer Awards issue, which honors the most effective mobile technology deployments.
According to the recently published report Location, Location, Location, Does it Matter in Field Service?, service organizations that use location-based solutions — such as GPS, GIS and AVL — see marked performance upticks, including a 17% boost in service revenues.
Alaska Air Cargo was the subject of the September insert of Integrated Solutions which highlighted the customized tracking and monitoring system designed and deployed by AirClic. The solution has given the airline real time visibility of all shipments, and as a result, has virtually eliminated time spent searching for missing cargo, and has radically reduced customer claims reimbursements.
Authority With the help of a small applications developer, Minnesota shipper Wessin Transport rolled out a mobile solution that’s enabling it to pinpoint package locations—and rival even the industry’s biggest players.
New Jersey-based digital imaging company Konica Minolta has been working with mobile automation firm AirClic Inc. to allow its service technicians to more quickly enter details about jobs with just their mobile phones.
…GPS remains a viable option. Spring Valley ISD outside of Houston says its system is more than up to the task of providing state-of-the-art and non-proprietary student tracking capabilities to meet the growing needs of school district accountability.
MRM software is also useful in monitoring workers. Companies that once could impose nothing more than an honor system to trust that their long-haul truck drivers were taking the most direct routes and only reasonable break times, can now track them with GPS systems to record how long it takes them to leave the lot in the morning, break for lunch, and even sleep at night.
One of the leading manufacturers of vinyl windows and doors in the United States, Silver Line Windows currently employs more than 7,000 people. Its customers include Home Depot, 84 Lumber, and Norandex. Strategically located facilities allow for timely delivery and first-rate customer service for the approximately 500,000 windows shipped each month.
AirClic, Inc. has received $2.86 million in venture capital to fuel
its expansion.
For mobile workforce vendor AirClic Inc., 2005 was a banner year. The company welcomed new CEO Tim Bradley last March, introduced its AirClic MP mobile platform that same month, and went on to post sales increases and customer growth of 300% for the year.
Like many other industries, some scrap recycling companies are turning to more sophisticated equipment and communication devices to help improve their bottom lines.
NEWTOWN — Sure, you can move it around. But can you find it? Can you say for sure where you left the stuff? For distribution companies, transportation enterprises and a range of other businesses, it’s a pressing question.
“You have a field force out there repairing and installing items. You have delivery trucks on the road. You have transportation processes, you have distribution, but what is the status of all those things?” Tim Bradley asks.
Federal law prohibits autodialing text messages to mobile phones, according to the ruling. An appeals court in Arizona this week ruled that a federal law that bans autodialing to call mobile phones also covers unsolicited text messages—even though text-messaging technology did not exist when the legislation was crafted.
Symantec and VERITAS. AT&T Wireless and Cingular. HP and Compaq. Consolidation usually means new products or capabilities that capitalize on the combined strengths and product lines of the merging companies. New solutions often combine features of what were previously two or three different systems or features of a system.
AirClic Inc. has been contracted to help Oce North America Inc. keep track of service parts in the field.
The Newtown, Pa., company will equip up to 1,000 of Oce’s service technicians with mobile phones equipped with bar-code scanners. When the technicians scan the bar codes on parts, the information contained in the codes will be transmitted to AirClic’s servers and downloaded into Oce’s parts inventory database.
AirClic’s new scanning attachment, the AC25, is designed specifically for select Motorola mobile phones and employs the AirClic MP Application, which allows mobile workers to monitor and transfer transactions and shipments, while still using the voice and data capabilities of a Java-enabled mobile phone.
AirClic, a provider of mobile process automation solutions, announced the availability of the Motorola AC25 barcode scanner—a new scanning attachment designed specifically for Motorola’a phones for iDEN networks that was developed to allow mobile businesses to have barcode scanning paired with voice, data, and application capabilities of of Java technology-enabled Motorola iDEN phones.
The organizations that have a complete view of mobile activities and respond quickly and efficiently to challenges in the action field, possess a competitive advantage: mobile intelligence, the new way to achieve efficiency and customer satisfaction.
AirClic Inc. has removed the word “interim” from Tim Bradley’s title.
The Newtown company last month named Bradley CEO. He had been serving as interim CEO since October.
Prior to Bradley’s arrival, AirClic was run by two presidents: John Parker, who joined the company in 2000, and Peter Ritz, who helped found it in 1999.
