Ingram Micro Gears Up for 'Black Friday' and 'Cyber Monday,' Plans to Ship Over 3 Million Units Each Peak Holiday Week
November 24 2009 - 2:27PM
PR Newswire (US)
SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The logistics division
of Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), the world's largest technology
distributor, is gearing up to ship more than 3 million units per
week across North America this holiday season. With less than 7
days until Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Ingram Micro's eight
advanced logistics centers (ALC) are ready to help move this
season's hot gifts to your door. (Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091124/LA16781) "Last year,
the growing popularity of e-tail businesses helped us deliver a
single-day shipping record the day after Black Friday, when we
filled more than 250,000 orders," said Terry Tysseland, senior vice
president, Operations and Supply Chain, North America. "In the last
eight weeks of the year, we typically ship an average of 3 to 4
million units per week. That's approximately 300 items per minute
or enough to provide one holiday gift in each of those weeks to
every man, woman, and child living in the city of Chicago,"
Tysseland said. Tysseland expects another busy holiday season
flowing through Ingram Micro's state-of-the art logistics centers
this year. He said the electronics that are on the top of many
holiday wish-lists--everything from toys and games to PCs and
TVs--all move through the Ingram Micro logistics machine. Once
consumers click, Ingram Micro starts to ship. Both e-tailers and
consumers expect that the purchased goods will arrive in time for
the holidays, making on-time and accurate shipping critical. Ingram
Micro delivers anywhere in North America within three days and is
proud of its shipping accuracy rate of 99.9 percent. "We're ready
to process another multi-million-unit season," Tysseland added. "We
have over four million square feet of warehouse space and 27 miles
of conveyance systems ready to deliver holiday gifts to every
corner of the continent." About Ingram Micro Inc. As a vital link
in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and
profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through
unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics services, technical
support, financial services, and product aggregation and
distribution. The company serves approximately 150 countries and is
the only global broad-based IT distributor with operations in Asia.
Visit http://www.ingrammicro.com/.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091124/LA16781 DATASOURCE:
Ingram Micro Inc. CONTACT: Lisa Zwick, +1-949-230-8794, , or Ria
Carlson, +1-714-382-4400, , both of Ingram Micro Inc. Web Site:
http://www.ingrammicro.com/
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