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The next time you walk down a city
street or through an office building or
shopping mall, take a moment to notice all
the technology around you. Perhaps you’ll
see someone keying an appointment into
a palmtop computer, someone carrying
a laptop in a leather case or store sale
signs for hot new software products or
super-speed PCs.These smaller, faster
and easier-to-access technologies are
made possible because manufacturers
are concentrating more than ever on
THE POWER BEHIND
that is our backbone — ultimately means
higher service quality for lower cost than
they could provide by maintaining logistics
operations themselves.
One peek inside the well-oiled machine
that is an Ingram Micro warehouse is all it
takes to understand why we do logistics
best. Each order is tracked, sorted and
prioritized by computer as it is assembled
and transported along miles-long conveyor
belts toward quality assurance and delivery
stations.And our flexible systems expand
easily to accommodate record sales days
and new partners.
Most important to manufacturers is the
single system that links our state-of-the-art
facilities around the globe. Manufacturers
can plug into Ingram Micro and make
their product available from Canada to
Germany to China — or any other
country they desire.
Our role is behind the scenes, using our
best-in-class global logistics capabilities to
let manufacturers concentrate on innovation
and get new products to market fast.
The Power Behind The World’s Technology
creating new products for the market.
To keep up with the daily race to
develop ideas faster than their competition,
technology manufacturers are realigning their
businesses and outsourcing the logistics to us.
It makes perfect sense: Ingram Micro has
already made the investment in warehouses
and perfected our systems around the globe
for our reseller customers. Now, we have
seamlessly leveraged those facilities and
systems to serve manufacturers, including
companies such as 3Com, Compaq
and Microsoft. For these and other
manufacturers, paying us for our services
and scale — to do the logistical work
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