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Sling Media Chooses Inovis Managed Services and Inovisworks™ VAN for
Supply Chain Communication
ATLANTA, GA - November 1, 2006 — Inovis, a leading provider of solutions that help businesses improve the flow of information across their trading communities, today announced that Sling Media, a digital lifestyle products company, has chosen Inovis Managed Services and the Inovisworks™ value-added network (VAN) in a competitive bid to manage its supply and fulfillment chains with trading and retail partners in the U.S. and Canada.
To expand distribution beyond the U.S. and Canada, Sling Media chose to move its entire fulfillment process in-house, migrate from accounting software to an Oracle ERP system and outsource all of its EDI processing and management. Facing a hard deadline to meet the Oracle ERP system implementation date, the mission-critical EDI implementation and integration had to be completed by Inovis in four short weeks.
"For Sling to be a global distributor by the end of the year, we needed a combined managed services and VAN solution that could handle multiple formats and currencies—one that could scale worldwide with us in addition to working with our very tight implementation timeframe," said Ravindra Sunku, Sling Media director of IT and business systems. "Inovis met all our criteria, and the transition has been seamless."
Inovis President and CEO Sean Feeney said, "This exceptionally rapid implementation would not have been possible without the talents of our Managed Services team backed by 20 years of experience and ERP integration expertise for thousands of customers."
Since the implementation, Sling Media has decreased its average multi-channel order-to-shipment window of its award-winning Slingbox™ from 24-36 hours to just two hours, with inventory updated in the system in moments instead of only once daily. The company also receives point-of-sale (POS) data 48 hours earlier than before, allowing quick reaction to changes in the marketplace.
Inovis Managed Services offers a hosted solution with comprehensive functionality for data exchange, transformation and communication. Leveraging a single point of access to securely exchange information between trading partners, regardless of disparate data, network and connectivity standards, it allows customers to standardize data communication, flow and transport on a scalable, reliable and flexible network. Inovis' EDI professionals and customer support team manage the program, which frees customers to focus on their core expertise with the confidence that a trusted partner is managing their mission-critical transactions.
Inovisworks, the company's VAN service, allows suppliers and retailers to exchange mission-critical business documents regardless of data format or network connectivity standards, securely routing millions of business transactions between thousands of companies on a daily basis.
About Sling Media
Sling Media, Inc. is a digital lifestyle products company creating a family of consumer electronics solutions that are a natural extension of today's digital way of life. The first member of the Sling Media family is the award-winning Slingbox™, a device that allows consumers to access their living room television experience at any time, from any location, using a variety of different displays including laptops and desktop PCs, PDAs and smartphones. The Slingbox is available from leading retailers nationwide and through Sling Media's own website. For more information on Sling Media or the Slingbox, visit www.slingmedia.com.
About Inovis
Inovis is a leading provider of supply chain communication solutions that help businesses improve the flow of information across their trading community. Our industry-leading, integrated solutions standardize, synchronize and streamline communication to increase the percentage of perfect orders and expedite the order-to-payment lifecycle. With more than 20 years of expertise, Inovis delivers its products and services to more than 20,000 companies over a wide range of industries and markets across the globe.
Inovis was recently named a "Company on the Move" by Consumer Goods Technology, and was included in Supply & Demand Chain Executive's "2006 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100," Inbound Logistics Magazine's "Top 100 Logistics IT Providers" and Apparel Magazine's annual "Software Scorecard." In 2006, IDC ranked Inovis #15 on its list of top Supplier Relationship Management Application Vendor table and #3 in the Worldwide Supplier Collaboration Application market. For more information, visit www.inovis.com.
Inovis is a trademark of Inovis, Inc.
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