South San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2008 — Varsity Logistics, Inc. announced it is now a Select Provider within the UPS Ready® partner program and will be releasing its updated, fully-certified UPS compliance module. As a Select Provider, Varsity joins a small minority of companies held to specific standards for maintaining compliance, delivering products and services, and doing business in a collaborative manner.
Varsity Logistics, Inc. has been providing shipping automation to businesses using the
IBM System i™ (iSeries, AS/400) since 1989. Today, it is the leading provider of multimodal, parcel and freight TMS (transportation management systems) that is devoted exclusively to the System i segment. Varsity now serves hundreds of companies and thousands of distribution centers in North America. UPS has recognized that Varsity has the solutions, expertise, and customer service philosophy to become the Select Provider for UPS customers running the IBM System i.
"The IBM System i is the enterprise technology platform of choice among tens of thousands of manufacturing and distribution companies in North America," notes Andrew Karpie, Senior Director of Marketing and Business Development at Varsity. "For these companies, being able to natively integrate and operate a TMS solution with their System i WMS and ERP systems can bring many significant performance and efficiency advantages. In the supply chain area today, collaboration is the name of the game, and that is a model we share with our customers and with UPS."
As a UPS Ready Select provider, Varsity Logistics’ goal is to deliver the best possible integration between UPS shipping and logistics services and the internal enterprise processes of UPS customers that operate on the IBM System i technology platform. Being certified as UPS carrier compliant and providing enterprise access to a broader range of UPS services is just the beginning of new efforts to assist shippers to streamline internal operations and improve supply chain integration and performance in the future.