"It is truly an honor to be recognized by the editors of START-IT," said Thomas A. Verzi, Jr., vice-president with QC Software. "This only validates our ability to develop and deliver real world business solutions to global organizations -- we put our customers at the center of everything... - October 07, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “With unreliable data, industrial distributors and manufacturers have reported they were unable to reap most of the benefits of a sales and marketing database. Salespeople will quickly realize the data is inaccurate,... - October 07, 2006 - Commence

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “In order to measure the results of automation implementations, leading industrial distributors and manufacturers first determined how their definition of success.” The easiest way to do this is to... - October 04, 2006 - Commence

Coach has emerged as America’s preeminent designer, producer, and marketer of fine leather accessories and gifts. As part of a major system upgrade in which the facility’s former WMS was being replaced with Manhattan & Associates PkMS, Coach required a flexible WCS system that could interface... - October 02, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

“Customer Relationship Management is quickly becoming a critical component for managing sales optimization and customer service in the Industrial setting,” says Dr. Barry Lawrence the Texas A & M program director. Dr. Lawrence noted, “The Commence software will provide qualified... - October 02, 2006 - Commence

Manufacturing Journalist, Thomas R. Cutler recently wrote a feature article about industrial CRM for Quality Digest. The full feature article may be read at http://qualitydigest.com/QDarticles/FMPro?-db=iq%5feditorial.fp5&-lay=article%20data%20form& editorial%20type=QIArticle&release=yes&-format=QDarticle_text.html&articleID=9961&-script= cntaccesstype&-Find... - September 28, 2006 - Commence

The Barco Company signed a partnership contract with JSC “Intelligent Solutions Systems“ Company, Lithuanian integrator of barcode technology and a supplier of Point-of-Sales (POS) systems, about representation of warehouse management system SmartStock.WMS on Lithuanian market. - September 28, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence (www.commence.com/mfg), an industrial customer relationship management (CRM) firm, “CEO’s of these companies often share how their new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system provides them all the information they need, but fail to recognize... - September 27, 2006 - Commence

Pleasant Company, based in DeForest, Wisconsin, has a distribution center that is responsible for direct-mail sales of all American Girl® merchandise to millions of households around the United States. Due to performance issues with their current Warehouse Control System (WCS), in conjunction with... - September 27, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

TrueHouse, Inc., a structural engineering service provider and building component manufacturer based in Jacksonville, FL, will implement the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System to consolidate its multiple businesses and provide accounting and labor and... - September 27, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

The solutions provided by QC Software (www.qcsoftware.com) enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability. With a commitment to total customer satisfaction QC Software is the obvious choice... - September 26, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

According to manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in a recent issue of Manufacturing & Technology Magazine, “Network marketing is a distribution system, or form of marketing, which channels goods or services from the manufacturer to the consumer through a "network" of independent... - September 25, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Deacom, Inc. will provide free demonstrations of the DEACOM ERP System to attendees of the Annual Building Component Manufacturers Conference (BCMC) from October 4-6 in Houston, TX. BCMC participants may arrange their software demonstration by visiting Deacom at booth #784 or online at www.deacom.net. - September 23, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./), “By implementing a formalized sales process, distributors and manufacturers are fundamentally changing the way people do their jobs on a daily basis. There will be natural resistance.” Caretsky suggests... - September 20, 2006 - Commence

QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products.... - September 20, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

QC Software is the leading provider of Tier 1 warehouse control systems to the warehousing and distribution industries. Since 1996, QC Software, utilizing state of the art technology combined with extensive research, development, and rigorous testing, has developed the QC Enterprise suite of products.... - September 15, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Elimination of waste is the hallmark of an effective lean initiative. The single greatest area of waste that remains in the manufacturing operation is in Sales and Marketing. For this reason there is a strong increase in Industry specific CRM technology anticipated over the next eighteen months. According... - September 15, 2006 - Commence

Having eliminated much of the waste in the manufacturing and distribution process, continued process improvement dictates that other areas of operational inefficiencies be corrected. The greatest area of deficiency in the manufacturing enterprise is in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) arena.... - September 14, 2006 - Commence

Kaizen blitz procedures quickly identify the best opportunity for lean efficiency and productivity. The most glaring omission of these kaizen blitz efforts has been in the sales and marketing elements of the manufacturing enterprise. According to manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler in a recent... - September 13, 2006 - Commence

Control Station Expands Partnership with BIN95 to Strengthen Skills of Domestic Manufacturers - September 13, 2006 - Control Station, Inc.

In Manufacturing.net, manufacturing journalist Thomas R. Cutler notes, “Some ERP vendors offer industry specific CRM solutions; many do not. Bolt-on generic CRM solutions are frequently sold as the panacea; few are.” Commence offers industrial companies complete “Freedom of Choice”... - September 11, 2006 - Commence

Jay Deakins, founder of the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System, will present on Thursday, September 28th from 2-3:30 p.m. (ET) at the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) Virtual Learning Conference. Deakins’ presentation, “ERP... - September 08, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

In an effort to help industrial distributors and manufacturers thrive, Commence Corporation presents Practices That Pay: Leveraging Information to Achieve Industrial Selling Results, a compendium of smart practices from the leading industrial sales and marketing experts and organizations that are growing... - September 04, 2006 - Commence

Founded in 1981, by Gordon C. Hay, a Forest Products Industry veteran, CTI was one of the first companies to develop sophisticated optimization, planning, and communications solutions for the corrugated packaging industry. Twenty-five years later, CTI is a leader in the development and delivery of technologically advanced software solutions for corrugated packaging companies. - September 02, 2006 - Corrugated Technologies Inc.

The Barco Company concluded a partnership agreement with the INWATECH Company, a Russian warehouse management system integrator, on representing SmartStock.WMS system for online warehouse management in the Russian market. - August 30, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.

The Barco Company has now extended its portfolio of products and services with RFID technologies and solutions of the Alien Technology Company, featuring very good power parameters, flexible architecture and low implementation costs. - August 30, 2006 - Barco, Ltd.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation (www.commence.com/mfg./) “In order to thrive in today’s industrial environment, characterized by intense competition, strategic sourcing contracts, customers’ pressuring for self-service, and the ongoing debate on fee-based... - August 28, 2006 - Commence

The QC Toolkit is a multi-purpose module within the QC Enterprise software solution. It offers all of the interface technology necessary for communicating with host Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), and lower level Material Handling Systems (MHS) as well... - August 28, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

EPAM Systems, the leading Software Engineering Outsourcing provider with delivery centers in Central and Eastern Europe, announced today that the company has been identified by CMP Media’s CRN, a vital source of information for VARs and technology integrators, as a Fast-Growth 100 company for its... - August 25, 2006 - EPAM Systems

START-IT magazine today announced the winners of its ninth annual Hottest Companies Awards. The Hottest Companies Awards are open to any technology vendor that has developed an innovative application for the manufacturing industry. Nominees were judged based on the following criteria: their growth record... - August 24, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Juno Lighting Group Reduces Safety Stock by 25% with TCLogic’s Application for Inventory Optimization. - August 24, 2006 - TCLogic

Deacom, Inc., producer of the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System, announces that Blazer Industries will implement the DEACOM ERP system to fully integrate manufacturing operations and reduce procedural inefficiencies, including duplicate entries and manual... - August 15, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

Deacom, Inc. has been recognized as one of the leading “Vertically Focused Companies to Watch” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine in its June/July 2006 issue. - August 09, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

DPI (www.dpisystems.com) formed a strategic alliance with QC Software and brought the QC Enterprise technology to Arbonne. DPI was founded in 1981 by four highly experienced engineers, DPI has grown to become a leader in the design and engineering of material handling and distribution systems for major... - August 02, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

The City of Champaign is pleased with its decision to purchase Questica’s intuitive TeamBudget Capital solution. The solution will satisfy all of the City’s budgeting pain points and capital requirements. Most importantly TeamBudget Capital will streamline their budgeting process, eliminating... - July 27, 2006 - Questica Inc.

The QC Software OMS (Order Management System) provides the functionality necessary to properly and efficiently execute the order fulfillment process. This robust module facilitates the planning, processing, verifying, and shipping of orders within the warehouse or distribution center. Plan: Planning... - July 26, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

The City of Vaughan chose to purchase TeamBudget Capital as it will leverage their current budgeting process to include their multi-year capital plan and long-range planning requirements. TeamBudget Capital allows for promotion/demotion of budgets with an automated alert function to inform the user... - July 25, 2006 - Questica Inc.

The core of QC Enterprise is the QC Navigator. The QC Navigator directs real-time data management and interface responsibilities of the material handling system as well as provides common user interface screens for monitoring, control and diagnostics. As the focal point for managing the operational... - July 25, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Bill Williams is QC Software's lead software designer and programmer. He has over 15 years experience designing and developing software for material handling systems. He is an experienced Linux and UNIX system administrator as well as an accomplished C, Java, and SQL database developer. Bill's primary... - July 24, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Thomas A. Verzi Jr. Vice President of Sales & Marketing, joined QC Software in March of 2006 and brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise Software industry with a successful track record in both software implementation, and sales and marketing. Tom is the former founder and CEO... - July 22, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Host Ken Rayment of Better Process Podcast, a process manufacturing news show that reports on topics ranging from United States manufacturing to manufacturing technology, recently interviewed Jay Deakins, President, and Susan Shaw, Marketing Coordinator, of ERP-producer Deacom, Inc. to discuss the major... - July 20, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

Jerry List has 25 years experience in the material handling industry, designing and implementing complex control systems for a wide variety of material handling equipment. He has implemented control software solutions ranging from real-time machine controls through higher-level supervisory systems. Jerry... - July 17, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Deacom, Inc. announces that La Tortilla Factory®, headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, has chosen the DEACOM Accounting & Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software System to integrate its entire food manufacturing operations in order to maximize productivity and profitability. La Tortilla Factory®,... - July 15, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

Rich Hite is the founder of QC Software. His vision began in 1996 with the development of QC Navigator™ and has grown into the suite of products known today as QC Enterprise™. Rich oversees the direction and management of the company as well as being a major contributor to all project designs... - July 13, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

Coach has emerged as America’s preeminent designer, producer, and marketer of fine leather accessories and gifts. As part of a major system upgrade in which the facility’s former WMS was being replaced with Manhattan & Associates PkMS, Coach required a flexible WCS system that could interface... - July 10, 2006 - Queen City Software, Inc.

The City of Hamilton is very pleased with its decision to purchase Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution. The solution will provide centralized project based budgeting with the ability to easily track actual costs against the proposed budget. Along with customizable alerts, users will be better... - July 06, 2006 - Questica Inc.

Jay Deakins, founder of the DEACOM ERP system for the paint and coatings industry, presented at the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) 2006 Advancements in Coatings Series on June 20 at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Rosemont, IL. Following the “21st Century Manufacturing:... - July 06, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

Wall panel, floor truss, and roof truss manufacturers joined together to learn the latest features and updates to the DEACOM accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system on May 18-19, 2006 in Wayne, PA. Deacom, Inc. hosted its 2nd Annual Component Manufacturers Roundtable to help... - June 30, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

Today Deacom, Inc. announces that Cabochon Construction & Development, Inc. has selected the DEACOM Integrated Accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system to manage the processes of both its existing construction business and new system-built housing company, Transform LLC.... - June 28, 2006 - Deacom, Inc.

GBI announces they now have exclusive distribution rights for the Wally Cross Belt Sorter in the United States and South America. This cross belt sorter is a perfect supplement to GBI’s line of Tilt Tray, Bomb Bay (Carrier-based), Hanging Garment, and Pick to Light sortation systems. The Wally... - June 21, 2006 - GBI Data & Sorting Systems