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Lance, Inc. Streamlines Mobile Field Sales and Delivery Operations with Apacheta RouteACE(TM) and Motorola Mobile Computers
Apacheta Corporation, a leading mobile business application provider,
and the enterprise mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT)
today announced that Lance, Inc.(NASDAQ:LNCE), a major snack food
company, has implemented Apacheta RouteACE software running on Motorola’s
rugged MC9090 mobile computers throughout its route sales and delivery
operations. Lance was able to go from contract signing in mid-September
to pilot phase in only eight weeks with a sophisticated solution
tailored to their requirements. Since early January, Lance has rolled
out more than 1200 routes and will reach 1500 by the end of this month.
"We needed to rapidly update our obsolete
handhelds and old mobile application to address rising failure rates and
inefficiencies associated with our legacy software,”
said Shawn Cherry, Director of Application Development at Lance, Inc. "We
felt that running Apacheta’s customizable
workflow solution on Motorola’s rugged MC9090
mobile computers was the only solution to meet our requirements and
provide a flexible, extendable foundation for future functionality and
process changes.”
Apacheta’s RouteACE supports a full ‘day-in-the-life’
for Lance’s sales and delivery operations
serving in-store and vending customers, including complete DEX support.
Using RouteACE on a Motorola MC9090 mobile computer equipped with a
printer, Lance’s drivers are able to more
accurately manage their inventory, streamline delivery logistics,
provide delivery confirmation, prepare and print invoices, process
payments, manage multiple pricing and promotions models, place orders,
and run a variety of reports.
"Our sales reps maintain full responsibility
for their inventory and are personally accountable for all aspects of
their business, so we have very stringent demands for a mobile route
solution,” said Mark Carter, Vice President
of Strategic Initiatives for Lance. "The
RouteACE application has been an overwhelming success with our drivers
because it allows them to accurately track and manage their inventory,
service their customers efficiently and view custom reports to better
manage their business.”
With RouteACE and the Motorola MC9090 mobile computer, Lance has also
reduced the total cost-of-ownership for its mobile solution and can now
respond more quickly to changes in the business environment. The company
has compressed the time required to modify the application to reflect
process changes from months to weeks and dramatically shrunk the time
required to deploy changes across the workforce by cutting the average
communication time by two-thirds.
"The success of the Lance implementation
demonstrates how Apacheta’s products and
architecture are changing the dynamics of mobile application development
and deployment,” said Steve Higgins, Vice
President of Engineering at Apacheta Corporation. "By
working closely together we were able to drastically reduce the time,
effort and cost to implement and maintain their mobile solution.”
Motorola recognized a majority of the revenue on this contract in 2006.
About Apacheta Corporation
Founded in 2003, Apacheta Corporation provides easily customizable
mobile business applications across a range of industries including
consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, 3rd
party service & repair, telecommunications, and transportation. Its
suite of mobile workflow applications that includes RouteACE are based
on a leading-edge mobile application framework that provides a platform
for mobile solutions across the enterprise. Apacheta has built a solid
customer base that includes Dr. Pepper/Cadbury Schweppes, Lance, Inc.,
G&K Services, Cassens Transport, George Weston Bakeries and many others.
Apacheta also works closely with partners such as Bell Mobility,
Cingular, IBM, inCode Wireless, Intermec, Motorola, Nokia, Sprint, UPS
Logistics Technologies and others to deliver complete customer
solutions. For more information please visit www.Apacheta.com.
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in
wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of
seamless mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you
connect simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and
entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and
delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful
networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune
100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US
$42.9 billion in 2006. For more information about our company, our
people and our innovations, please visit www.motorola.com.
About Lance, Inc.
Lance, Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, NC, manufactures and markets
snack foods throughout much of the United States and other parts of
North America. The Company’s products include
sandwich crackers and cookies, snack crackers, potato chips, cookies,
sugar wafers, nuts, candy and other salty snacks. Lance has
manufacturing facilities in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas,
Iowa, Massachusetts and Ontario, Canada. Products are sold under the
Lance, Cape Cod and Tom’s brand names along
with a number of private labels and third party brands. The Company’s
products are distributed through a direct-store-delivery system of
approximately 1,500 sales routes, a network of independent distributors
and direct shipments to customer locations. Lance products are
distributed widely through grocery stores, convenience stores, mass
merchants, food service outlets, and other channels.
MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent &
Trademark Office. Intel® is a trademark or
registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the
United States and other countries. Microsoft and Windows are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other product or service names
are the property of their respective owners. ©
Motorola, Inc. and Apacheta Corporation 2007. All rights reserved.
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