7Hills News
7Hills Welcomes Les Huet as the Director for Business Development
7Hills is pleased to announce the addition of Les Huet to the U.S. team. With a career spanning 25 years in the distribution and supply chain industry, Les brings a wealth of exceptional experience in operations, sales and marketing to 7Hills. He most recently served in leadership roles in new business sales and account management for supply chain software leaders RedPrairie and MARC Global, respectively. Prior to his involvement in the supply chain execution arena, Les was director of logistics management at Stuart Medical, as well as regional manager of business development and general manager of a regional operations center for Owens & Minor. His early involvement with distribution focused companies spanned positions in inventory management, procurement and strategic planning.
With his extensive operational expertise and capacity to understand and respond to the unique needs of each customer, Les has a strong record of successfully launching innovative programs to drive value to the bottom-line for his clients. He has, over the years, engaged in projects with multiple Fortune 100 companies across many vertical markets. With 7Hills, Les will have responsibility for developing new business opportunities in addition to managing the company’s channel strategy and associated relationships in the Americas region.
Les holds a B.A. degree from the Pennsylvania State University and resides in Pittsburgh, PA. He will be based in the Pittsburgh location of the international supply chain solutions provider.
Donald L. Bremer joins 7Hills as the Director of Accounts Management
Donald L. Bremer has joined the staff of 7Hills as Director of Account Management and will be based in the Pittsburgh office of the pioneering international supply chain software and solutions provider.
With over 22 years of operational and systems experience in the supply chain industry, Bremer is eminently qualified to provide leadership for customer projects and relationships for 7Hills. Prior to his appointment to the company, Bremer served as Distribution Operations Manager for Thrift Drug, Inc (a subsidiary of JC Penney Co.) and Senior Project Manager for RedPrairie, where he led the implementation of warehouse management systems for numerous clients, including retail, e-fulfillment, B2B and BCB, 3PL and manufacturing facilities.
Over the course of his career, Bremer has held a number of advancing positions in the supply chain industry and has proven skills in operations management, risk management and mitigation, resource planning and management, contract management and project financial control. With an excellent track record of leading project teams to deliver warehouse management solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations, Bremer brings depth and versatility to his new position at 7Hills.
New Benchmark Study by ABERDEEN GROUP Sponsored by 7Hills
7Hills has helped underwrite a benchmark report by The Aberdeen Group entitled "Supply Chain on Demand: Enable Flexible Business Processes" that clearly establishes the advantages enjoyed by users of on-demand applications in comparison to users of conventional on-premise systems for supply chain process management
The Aberdeen report analyzed data on business process capabilities from over 250 companies to identify key competency indicators, including the abilities to expedite new trading partnerships; support unique business processes for selective product categories, customers or channels; support electronic collaboration with global trading partners; enhance business-to-business connectivity, supply chain execution and planning; and achieve greater proficiency in transportation management and supply chain collaboration. Best-in-Class companies demonstrated substantially superior performance in all of those aspects and were far more likely to be users of on-demand applications. Companies of all sizes, across all industries, using on-demand supply chain applications are poised to excel in process capabilities, productivity, efficiency and collaboration, while reducing operating costs.
According to Bob Kennedy, 7Hills VP of Business Development , "This report validates the numerous benefits of SaaS on-demand supply chain solutions for companies seeking to advance their adaptability in managing business processes and practices. On-demand supply chain technology facilitates collaboration and flexibility and is both time and cost effective."Learn more...
New ARC Report Names 7Hills as Leading Model for Offshore Development
7Hills has been singled out by a leading industry analyst for its trailblazing and efficacious utilization of offshore resources.
An ARC Advisory Group Study cites 7Hills as the premier Warehouse Management System company employing the offshore development model, or Global Service Delivery model. According to Steve Banker, Ph.D., Service Director for Supply Chain Management at ARC, 7Hills is the industry leader in reducing costs and raising profit margins by designing a business model that strategically utilizes off-shore facilities in other countries, specifically India.
"7Hills is leveraging the offshore development model better than any other company that I have come across," Banker is quoted as saying in the May 2007 study, entitled Warehouse Management Systems Worldwide Outlook. "7Hills is also doing offshore software development and taking this model further than others. The power of this model is demonstrated by the extraordinarily fast growth of Indian IT firms that rely on it."
Banker was impressed with the company's progressive use of offshore development and described 7Hills as an "intriguing" company that caught his attention as he completed research for the Worldwide Outlook report.
DC Velocity Magazine Shines a Spotlight on 7Hills
7Hills is one of just a few pioneering supply chain software providers spotlighted in the October 2007 issue of DC Velocity magazine.
In an article titled "Trickle Down Technology," author Lisa Terry how 7Hills is offering on-demand, software-as-a-service warehouse management products to small and midsized businesses (SMBs), and in doing so transforming the warehouse management systems industry. By offering web-based software to SMBs, 7Hills is giving them the opportunity to leapfrog into the digital age - a shift that has previously been impossible due to the prohibitive costs of software and hardware.
According to Terry, the eBizNET software suite developed by 7Hills enables SMB's to reap the transformative benefits of a SaaS solution without the expenditure and complexity of creating an on-premise system. On-demand, web-based applications provide SMBs with a chance to adopt the latest technology plus gain the substantial advantages of lower costs, reduced risk and rapid implementation. Industry experts, including Steve Banker, director of supply chain management for ARC Advisory Group, believe that there is a healthy and growing market for low cost, on-demand warehouse management systems delivered via the Internet.
Bob Kennedy, 7Hills vice-president for business development, is quoted in the article, articulating the quality of the support and services that the company provides along with the eBizNET suite software. Customers are likely to be pleasantly surprised, said Kennedy, by such exceptional responsiveness to customer needs. Aberdeen Group research director Nari Viswanthan states that early response to hosted supply chain software has been positive; in fact, he says, companies using on-demand warehouse management systems claim that "It exceeded expectations in the cost of software, implementation time and cost of ownership."
The article emphasizes the attention that 7Hills pays to the business processes of its customers. This aspect of implementation is critically important for SMB companies that are engaging on-demand WMS software applications, in order to assure a smooth transition to the new system. 7Hills provides that, with an implementation process that focuses on a comprehensive review of the customer's business processes.Learn More