100 Great Supply Chain Partners Readers Recognize Providers Who Improve Efficiency
Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies, August, 2003

Nominations of supply management and sourcing solutions also tended to come from high levels in the organization, who could see across silos and functional areas.

Stephen O’Mara, vice president of J.F. Braun & Sons nominated Blinco Systems for its 3rdwave application that single-handedly provides the food trading company’s enterprise-wide global sourcing, trading and synchronized supply-chain execution solutions. As the leading importer and wholesaler of nuts and dried fruit in the U.S., Braun & Sons has been able to automate many trading, order management and logistics processes as well as gain accurate visibility into its entire global supply chain.

“Since we have been live with 3rdwave, we are better able to monitor and control long-term contract positions,” says O’Mara.

He says that he depends on the global food distribution and sourcing experience of Blinco’s management to deliver a highly business-process-driven, tightly crafted solution that accurately reflected the firm’s needs.

“In a high quality, highly competitive environment, our dedication to providing exceptional customer service to match the requirements of our food manufacturers and food service distributors that rely on us daily, it is imperative that we have a solution that provides a real-time 360-degree view of our customer,” he says. “We appreciate that [Blinco] is able to understand and translate our corporate vision into their 3rdwave solution and has given us the core and additional functionality we need to meet and even exceed our customers’ needs.”

What is most important to O’Mara is that Blinco Systems is there to provide J.F. Braun & Sons with the support and domain knowledge to help it achieve its future IT goals.

For related information, please go to:
3rdwave Food
3rdwave CGD (for Consumer Goods Distributors)
3rdwave Global Logistics