Freight Transportation and Logistics Leader Enhances Supply Chain Agility with SSA Global;...

CHICAGO & PHILADELPHIA -- SSA Global(TM), a leading provider of extended enterprise solutions and services, today announced that Averitt Express, a provider of freight transportation and supply chain management, has implemented SSA Warehouse Management to enhance its supply chain execution and

Tennessee-based Averitt Express is an asset based Transportation and 3PL Solutions provider with 90 facilities and 6,500 employees. Averitt's customers represent a wide variety of products that require flexibility to support unique needs, such as kitting and assembly. Averitt has been providing distribution/warehousing solutions for a select group of their customers for almost 15 years and added warehousing capabilities to support its go-to-market strategy of becoming an end-to-end logistics provider.

"We decided to extend the value of our SSA ERP solution and implement SSA Warehouse Management because of the confidence we have in SSA Global's enterprise products as well as the solution's rich functionality," said Chuck Odom, vice president of sales, Averitt Express Supply Chain Solutions.

Odom continued, "In addition, we chose SSA Warehouse Management to be the backbone of our operations because it provides us with a competitive advantage, enabling us to increase supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. We now have better control and visibility of our inventory and we are able to offer to our clients more value-added kitting services, which in turn enables their customers to receive the products and delivery services they need at the price point they are looking for."

With SSA Warehouse Management, Averitt now offers a full suite of logistic services. In addition, the company has already realized an increase in customer satisfaction and a decrease in customer inquiries. Averitt Express customers can use a self-service method to rate, track and trace orders from the point of distribution to final delivery. These customers can also select the optimal route for an order based on variables such as weight, product-type, transit-time and destination.

"With SSA Warehouse Management as part of our strategic extension solutions portfolio, we are committed to helping customers, such as Averitt, achieve modern supply-chain operations through enhanced distribution productivity and transportation routing," said Jim Handy, president of SSA Global Strategic Solutions.

SSA Supply Chain Management (SCM) fuses the demand chain with the supply chain to connect SSA Global customers with their extended supply chain (their customers, suppliers, etc.) to ensure they can forecast demand, take an order, give an accurate promise date, source and manufacture the right goods, position inventory properly, pick, pack and ship efficiently, and accomplish all of this while maintaining a minimal finished goods inventory.

The SSA Warehouse Management solutions provide end-to-end fulfillment functionality, from order inception to order shipment and are designed for both traditional and high-volume, complex fulfillment operations. SSA Warehouse Management is ideal for third-party logistics (3PL) providers, distributors, manufacturers, and aftermarket automotive companies, as well as retail, grocery and wholesale operations.

About Averitt Express

Established in 1971, Averitt Express is a leading provider of global freight transportation and supply chain management.

Based in Cookeville, Tennessee, Averitt's transportation services include less-than truckload; truckload; time-critical ground; domestic airfreight; ocean less-than container load and full-container load; and global airfreight. Backed by more than 32 years of transportation and logistics experience, Averitt's supply chain management services include customized pool distribution, consolidation, warehousing, and port management services, as well as outsourced services such as facility operations, dedicated fleet operations, transportation network design and operation, and complete transportation management.

For more information about Averitt Express, customers can call 1-800-AVERITT or visit http://www.averittexpress.com.

About SSA Global

SSA Global(TM) is a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, services and public organizations worldwide. In addition to core ERP applications, SSA Global offers a full range of integrated extension solutions including corporate performance management, customer relationship management, product lifecycle management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Headquartered in Chicago, SSA Global has 60 locations worldwide and its product offerings are used by approximately 13,000 active customers in over 90 countries. For additional information, visit the SSA Global web site at www.ssaglobal.com.

SSA Global(TM) is the new corporate brand for product lines and subsidiaries of SSA Global Technologies, Inc.

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