ATLANTA, Dec. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Activ
Technologies, offering a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS),
ActiVate®, that enables digital transformation of the supply chain,
reported record year-over-year growth of 129 percent for the
calendar year.
"It's an exceptionally challenging year for supply chain
operators; the supply and demand imbalances persistently drove
supply chain issues across industries. Fortunately, Activ is
well-positioned to provide its customers the supply chain
visibility they need to manage orders, inventory, and shipments,"
explained Jaymie Forrest, President
and CEO, Activ Technologies. "Activ's growth reflects our ability
to deliver and execute end-to-end supply chain management solutions
that address today's challenges of synchronizing with trading
partners."
Manufacturers, retailers, and distributors seek a real-time view
into supply chain operations to improve performance. ActiVate,
Activ's platform as a service, provides a single system of record
for real-time data as it connects and integrates systems and
partners. The synchronization of the various files, formats, and
data sources creates the foundation for supply chain visibility
into orders, inventory, and shipment management. Rules-based and
alert-driven notifications allow Activ's customers to control and
automate based on an exception-management basis that helps improve
working capital, increase revenue, improve labor performance, and
reduce transportation costs. Ultimately, the platform dashboards
show the analytics and key performance indicators to support making
better informed decisions.
Garland Duvall, Chief Technology
Officer at Activ, stated, "The ActiVate platform continues to
develop its solution to support full end-to-end supply chain
management extending the platform now with proof of delivery. On
one end, customers gain significant business value by accessing a
complete solution for managing forecasts and orders through
changes, confirmation, audit, and history to inventory and receipt
control to invoice match or reconciliation. On the other end, the
platform measures on time in full (OTIF), operational metrics and
shipment tracking functions, and more all in one platform."
"We are bringing digital transformation to our customers in new
ways," stated Damian Burke, VP of
Sales at Activ. "They no longer have to look at and review the
overwhelming volume of static reports, emails, and spreadsheets
from multiple data sources to get the real-time view they need to
improve operations performance." He added, "It's exciting to work
with customers as we help them realize results such as
clear-to-build production schedules, ecommerce/fulfillment
dashboards, metrics monitoring with exception alerts, workforce
productivity, balancing and planning for DC automation/robotics
workflow and profile management."
ActiVate's inbound visibility functions provide the track/trace
capabilities sought by Republic National Distributing Company
(RNDC). Andrew Holbrook, Vice
President Supply Chain Planning & Services, RNDC explained,
"As we implement the ActiVate track/trace solution, we expect to
gain significant efficiencies over our current processes—resulting
in improved service for our customers and suppliers. Our current
processes provide little visibility until an inbound load is in
trouble." He added, "ActiVate provides automated alerts notifying
planners of exceptions as the product flows from our suppliers to
our U.S. distribution locations and gives our sales team the
visibility they need to serve our customers. Everybody wins—RNDC,
our partners, and our customers."
While growing its traditional industrial supply and
manufacturing customer base, Activ expands into other industries
that include third-party logistics, aerospace, eCommerce, energy,
chemicals, electronics, and food and beverage. Additionally, the
ActiVate platform supports the growth of software vendors extending
their solution development. Activ continues to support existing
customers and their digital transformation paths such as HP Inc.
Latin America logistics
operations, which is seeking to expand their efforts to address
their growing supply chain visibility and management needs.
Fully leveraging ActiVate's supply chain capabilities for its
visibility, integration, and synchronization functions helps
customers realize the value and benefits of digital transformation
and the advantage of using a platform as a service. Recently,
NextGen Supply Chain Conference and Supply Chain Management Review
selected Activ Technologies, Inc. for the 2021 Solution Provider
Award Winner for Digital Transformation. Commenting on this
recognition, "Our supply chain process is much more robust. We find
problems much earlier than we did before. So, this digital
transformation project is generating a lot of value to our
customers as well and enables a much more controlled supply chain,"
stated Ernesto Kirsch, with HP LATAM
logistics.
In addition to its capstone recognition as a premiere digital
transformation solution provider and record growth, Activ completed
a seed round in the fourth quarter of 2021. The round helps support
additional expansion of its sales and marketing outreach.
"The recent financing allows Activ to continue to focus on
growth and build for another exceptional year in 2022," stated
Jerry Schmidt, Managing Director of
Cordova Partners, long time investor in Activ Technologies.
Alan Thielemann, a former
Georgia Pacific executive and
current Activ Technologies advisor/investor, "It is so exciting to
see customers realizing the immense value ActiVate adds in dealing
with today's supply chain challenges. In years back, we hardly ever
heard words like 'control tower'. But now almost every company
understands the critical importance of digital transformation. It
is a scary process for many who haven't been there before. But it's
pretty obvious that Activ can very quickly and easily help these
companies gain visibility, relevance and provide the tools for them
to make decisive actions on their supply chain issues."
About Activ Technologies
Activ Technologies offers a cloud-based, multi-enterprise platform,
ActiVate, that digitally transforms supply chain processes.
Companies can swiftly see, coordinate, optimize, and manage their
end-to-end supply chains. ActiVate, provides ease of integration,
connectivity, data normalization and extension, along with
predictive and prescriptive analytics. As a cloud-based solution,
ActiVate is an economical and easily installed platform that
quickly helps drive profitability and performance. Companies and
their trading partners can synchronize forecasts, production, order
and inventory management as well as distribution capabilities in
real-time, improving operational effectiveness.
For more information about digital transformation, download
Activ's eBook, Your Roadmap to Supply Chain Digital
Transformation.
Media Contact
Sandra K Tincher, Activ Technologies, Inc., 1 6786621033,
stincher@activtech.com
SOURCE Activ Technologies, Inc.