RedPrairie Warehouse Management Solution Now Live in Highest Volume Dot Foods Facility


Mt. Sterling distribution center will use solution to help process over 80,000 products

MILWAUKEE, Wis. - RedPrairie Corporation, a productivity solutions provider, announced today that its Warehouse Management solution has gone live in Dot Foods' Mt. Sterling, Ill. distribution center. The largest food redistributor in the United States, Dot will use the system at their highest volume facility to help process over 80,000 products for grocers and food retailers of all sizes.

"To maintain and sustain continued growth at Dot Foods, we needed a system that would perform at a high enough level of efficiency to provide the kind of service our customers demand without any disruption," says John Long, Dot Foods VP of Operations. "RedPrairie's Warehouse Management solution is up to that task."

Dot's Mt. Sterling distribution center handles more than 60 percent of the $4 billion company's order volume, and has cool, dry and frozen storage facilities. The company is currently running Warehouse Management with its cooler operations, with plans to implement alongside dry and frozen operations within the next year. The solution right now is assisting the organization with pallet building, list picking, and more efficient travel and directed work operations.

"Our solutions have always been built to help high-volume, rapid-growth companies like Dot Foods achieve their goals," says RedPrairie CEO Mike Mayoras. "We are proud to support progressive distributors like Dot around the world, every day."

About Redprairie

RedPrairie delivers productivity solutions to help companies around the world in three categories - workforce, inventory and transportation. RedPrairie provides these solutions to manufacturers, distributors and retailers looking to support business strategies that increase revenue, reduce costs and create competitive advantage.

With over 20 global offices and solutions that are installed at more than 34,000 customer sites in over 40 countries, companies trust RedPrairie workforce, inventory and transportation solutions to deliver an increase in productivity - with the flexibility to adapt as business needs change.

At RedPrairie, we understand today's operational demands and we're committed to delivering solutions that work. We're committed to delivering solutions for the real world.

For additional information, call 1.877.733.7724, or visit RedPrairie.com.

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