Intermec Inc has been named winner of the Best Wireless Mobility Solution award in the annual IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards competition, which honours IBM Business Partners for their innovation, customer satisfaction and outstanding achievements in providing on-demand business solutions.
Intermec`s IF5 RFID reader, which is being used in the METRO Group Future Store in Rheinberg, Germany, is the first production-scale integration of IBM`s WebSphere RFID Device Infrastructure software on an RFID reader. This powerful combination of hardware and software provides early data filtering, to minimise network overload, correlate RFID events and integrate RFID event data with enterprise applications.
The Intermec IF5 system is helping METRO Group achieve just-in-time inventory delivery, reduced inventory costs, more accurate recording of data and fewer "out of stock" and "out of shelf" products for consumers. METRO Group plans a roll-out of the RFID solution for selected sales divisions with more than 100 stores and distribution centres by September 2006.
"Judges selected Intermec as the winner in this category based on its ability to deliver cutting-edge innovative value to customers while working closely with IBM to both benchmark and extend those solutions and technologies," said Donn Atkins, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. "Intermec is combining technology expertise with business insight to help its clients innovate on important business issues and realise real efficiencies."
More than 860 nominations were judged by a team of leading industry journalists, analysts and IBM executives, who selected winners and finalists in 36 award categories. These IBM Business Partners were honoured during the IBM PartnerWorld 2006 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, from 12 to 15 March.
Andrew Fosbrook, Managing Director of ProScan Systems, sole value-added distributor for Intermec in southern Africa, comments: "As we roll-out RFID applications in the mobile space in southern Africa, we are confident to know that an Intermec RFID solution has achieved such an auspicious global award and is delivering real and measurable benefits to customers in the workplace."
For more information about the IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards, visit http://www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pub_awards_pwbeacon_nom.html
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Intermec Inc (NYSE:IN) develops, manufactures and integrates technologies that identify, track and manage supply chain assets. Core technologies include RFID, mobile computing and data collection systems, bar code printers and label media. The company`s products and services are used by customers in many industries worldwide to improve the productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations. For more information about Intermec, visit www.intermec.com
ProScan
ProScan Systems is a leading distributor of a wide range of bar coding, data collection, RFID, wireless networking, GSM/GPRS communication and mobile technologies for a wide range of industries in southern Africa, including retail, fast moving consumer goods, transport and logistics, and manufacturing.
ProScan markets and supports a complete line of data collection hardware, including retail and industrial bar code scanners, RFID products, bar code printers, wireless local area networks, mobile computers and GSM/GPRS data communications.
ProScan`s sister company, ProScan Media Products, specialises in local production and supply of original equipment manufacture (OEM) bar code self-adhesive labels and thermal transfer ribbons at its head office in Jet Park, Johannesburg.
The ProScan group has regional offices in Durban, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.
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