continually developing capabilities to meet the pressing business issues in the
marketplace. Our business objective is
to focus on Leading the Evolution of Outsourcing. As our tagline suggests, we will continue
to evolve our service offering to meet the needs of the marketplace and the demands of unique
client requirements. We are most successful when we develop a new capability to enable a client to
pursue a new initiative and we are then able to leverage that revolutionary development across
other client or prospect solutions, as it becomes best practice in the marketplace. Our team of
experts design and build diverse solutions for Fortune 1000, Global 2000 and major brand name
clients around a flexible core of technology and physical infrastructure that includes:
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Technology collaboration provided by our suite of technology services, called the
Entente Suite(SM), that are e-commerce and collaboration services that enable buyers and
suppliers to fully automate their business transactions within their supply chain. Entente
supports industry standard collaboration techniques including XML based protocols such as
Biztalk and RosettaNet, real-time application interfaces, text file exchanges via secured
FTP, and traditional electronic data interchange (EDI); |
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Managed hosting and Internet application development services, including web site
design, creation, integration and ongoing maintenance, support and enhancement of web site; |
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Order management, including order processing from any source of entry, back order
processing and future order processing, tracking and tracing, credit management, electronic
payment processing, calculation and collection of sales tax and VAT, comprehensive freight
calculation and email notification, all with multiple currency and language options; |
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM), including interactive voice response (IVR)
technology and web-enabled customer contact services through world-class call centers
utilizing voice, e-mail, voice over internet protocol (VOIP) and internet chat
communications that are fully integrated with real-time systems and historical data
archives to provide complete customer lifecycle management; |
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International fulfillment and distribution services, including warehouse management,
inventory management, vendor managed inventory, inventory postponement, product
warehousing, order picking and packing, freight and transportation management and reverse
logistics; |
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Facility Operations and Management (FOM) that includes process reengineering, facility
design and engineering and employee administration; |
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Kitting and assembly services, including light assembly, procurement services, Supplier
Relationship Management, specialized kitting, and supplier consigned inventory hub in
PFSwebs distribution facilities or co-located in other facilities; |
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Information management, including real-time data interfaces, data exchange services and
data mining; |
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Financial services, including secure on-line credit card processing related services,
fraud protection, invoicing, credit management and collection, and working capital
solutions; and |
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Professional consulting services, including a consultative team of experts that
customize solutions to each client and continuously seek out ways to increase efficiencies
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We are headquartered in Plano, Texas where our executive and administrative offices are
located as well as our primary technology laboratories and hosting facilities. We operate
state-of-the-art call centers from our U.S. facilities located in Plano, Texas, and Memphis,
Tennessee, and from our international facility located in Liege, Belgium. We have more than 1.6
million square feet of warehouse space in our leased and managed facilities in Memphis, TN,
Southaven, MS, Grapevine, TX, Toronto, Canada and Liege, Belgium allowing us to provide global
distribution solutions. The majority of these distribution facilities are highly automated and
contain state of the art material handling and communications equipment. We provide solutions to
clients that are often regarded as market leaders in a variety of different industries.
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