Location Analytics Will Help Leading Third-Party Logistics Provider Streamline Service to Customers Worldwide

Redlands, California—February 25, 2014—Esri announces that Flash Global Logistics, a global aftermarket third party logistics (3PL) service provider for mission-critical service parts and product logistics, has adopted the Esri ArcGIS platform. Flash's staff can now use location information to manage complex delivery schedules and monitor drivers and inventory throughout the day. It helps provide customers with the high-quality service they expect.

"ArcGIS complements Flash's clients' network optimization processes by enhancing output visualizations and improving the turnaround time for complex analysis of network statistical data," says Douglas Ray, director of quality and performance for Flash. "Network optimization adds a tremendous value to all Flash clients globally. It reduces costs and ensures service-level agreements are consistently met."

Using ArcGIS technology, Flash can combine information from many sources to view supply chain operations including logistics activities and trends by location. This allows Flash to proactively plan business by more effectively managing service-level agreements. It also takes the guesswork out of the strategic movement, management, and tracking of critical parts and products worldwide.

"We are pleased to provide technology that will help Flash provide even better service globally for its customers," says Wolfgang Hall, logistics industry manager at Esri. "GIS and location analytics help combine the intelligence that Flash needs to know about market conditions and delivery service requirements to help streamline the supply chain."

For more information on Esri solutions for the logistics market, visit esri.com/logistics.

About Flash Global Logistics

Headquartered in New Jersey (USA), Flash Global Logistics (Flash) specializes in critical parts supply chain solutions with its full suite of global aftermarket and reverse services and leading emerging markets offerings. For 30 years, Flash has helped companies who prefer to work with a global, single-source, third party logistics provider to effectively manage their critical inventories and time critical deliveries, in order to meet their service level agreements. Flash solutions include: transportation services, IOR/EOR capabilities in 80 countries, flexible distribution center programs and reverse logistics offerings. And its leading edge critical parts management system tool—FlashTrac, supports its global services and innovative solutions.

From its in-region and in-country personnel to the far-reaching presence of its five regional command centers, 700+ forward stocking locations and 21 multi-client DCs located across six continents, it's no wonder why our roster of Fortune 1000 customers and industry leaders rely on us to get the job done. For more information, visit www.flashlogistics.com.

For customers interested in learning more about Flash Solutions: Email Contact +1-866-611-7874

About Esri

Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS technology, Esri software is used in more than 350,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at esri.com/news.

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