Features May 2022

So why does Oak Harbor Freight Lines depend upon DDC FPO for both front and back-office solutions? Even under the best of conditions, moving products from point A to point B isn’t without its obstacles: port backlogs, manufacturing bottlenecks, weather hazards, accidents, fuel inflation, government mandates and so on. Technology is essential to ensuring the smoothest […]

By land, sea or air, Logistics Plus helps get freight from point A to point B all around the world. But the journey from the warehouse to the store or front door isn’t always that simple or linear, says Daniel Zack. As director of IT and business leader for Logistics Plus, Zack oversees the IT […]

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, many performers and musicians postponed tours and shows. Eventually, to the disappointment of fans, most were completely canceled. Now, with case numbers dropping, vaccine numbers rising and safety measures in place, bands and singers are returning to the stage. “People are hungry and wanting to be entertained,” says Dan Adams, […]

How do bolts of fabric, hides of leather and sheets of plywood build a career in IT? Those are among the raw materials McCreary Modern of Newton, North Carolina, uses to make the upholstered furniture it ships to retailers throughout the U.S. Tracking those materials and the manufacturing processes is Alan Fisher’s responsibility. As director […]

When insuring a new car, just-purchased home or even a business, the preferred choice may be to put one’s trust in a company that’s been around for over a century—not one that started up a few days ago. Yet, that trust can be just as quickly lost if that same company has an outdated website […]

Got to make the in-house technology as reliable as the mechanical gadgets sold to consumers. So realized Nagarajan Muthusamy upon becoming chief information and chief technology officer—or, as he says, transformer in chief—at ReliableParts in early 2018. The Dallas-based company certainly lived up to its name as the official OEM parts distributor for major home […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic started in March 2020, employees at Municipal Property Assessment Corporation were able to transition to remote work in only a few hours. While other companies using the cloud had similar experiences, this wouldn’t have been possible for MPAC five years ago, says Sujit Jagdev. The organization’s chief information and technology officer, […]

It’s often said an infotech and cybersecurity department needs to be regarded as a business function, and that may hold especially true for digital payments processors. It’s a message that Najma Sultana brought to Veem in early 2020. The San Francisco- and Ottawa-based firm provides a global payments platform, including option of payments via credit […]

No matter what the calendar says, it’s pest season somewhere. Maybe it’s termites munching on wood-frame houses in the Southeast or mice setting up squatter’s rights in the northern buildings they entered when the mercury plunged last fall. There being 176 species of skeeters in the United States alone, they’re likely everywhere. All such vermin […]

When a winery or brewery orders packaging supplies from G3 Enterprises, it can get everything—bottles, corks, caps, labels—in one place, as well as manufacturing, warehousing and transportation services. While this has always been the case, orders with many different items were difficult for G3 to fulfil. Similar product types were grouped in business units with […]