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Go West: Tech Data expands operations with new integration centre:
Vancouver-area facility designed to cater to customers’ configuration and inventory needs
in Canada’s Western region
Mississauga, ON – January 23, 2008 – Tech Data Canada, a leading provider of IT products, logistics management and other value-added services, today announced the opening of its new Vancouver-area integration facility, furthering the company’s commitment to providing configuration and inventory services to its value-added resellers (VARs) across Canada. The new Richmond, B.C.-based facility will provide logistics services not only to resellers based in the West, but also to those across Canada who ship to Western regions.
“Our new integration centre extends our configuration capabilities and inventory services to the doorstep of Western customers,” said Sukh Randhawa, Vice President, Business Operations for Tech Data Canada. “Not only are we providing configuration services, but we’re combining them with inventory services in the same place, improving our ability to offer fast turnaround on customized products for our customers. As a result, we will help our Western customers to better service their end users in this region,” continued Randhawa.
Similar to Tech Data’s thriving Mississauga-based integration centre, the new Richmond facility allows Western-area solution providers the opportunity to present their end users with custom configured products. In addition, the centre allows VARs that are based elsewhere in Canada to deliver configured products to Western branches of their end users’ businesses more quickly and efficiently. Tech Data can supply and stage inventory, configure products and then take care of shipping needs on behalf of a reseller, if requested.
As an added benefit, the new facility also provides Tech Data’s Western customers with scalable services on an ‘as-needed’ basis. By leveraging Tech Data’s extensive configuration and inventory capabilities, local resellers have the opportunity to invest more time and money into competing for larger end user contracts and product rollouts.
“Prior to establishing the new Western integration centre, if a customer wanted configuration services performed we would have to complete the service here in Ontario and then ship the inventory across the country,” said Randhawa. “Now, we can better leverage inventory right in the Vancouver area, shaving days and dollars off of the delivery in order to get our customers the product they need, configured the way they want.”
The Western integration centre, which was completed in December, 2007, provides capabilities for a host of configuration services, including PC and server imaging, operating system setup, software loads, hardware add-ons, bench testing and burn-in, basic network OS setup, server rack assembly, router/switch memory, and card installations and upgrades. Other services include memory testing, adapter cards and hard drives, full asset tagging, tracking and custom tag creation, customized rollout management and destination execution.
About Tech Data
Founded in 1974, Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD) is a leading distributor of IT products, with more than 90,000 customers in over 100 countries. The company's business model enables technology solution providers, manufacturers and publishers to cost-effectively sell to and support end users ranging from small-to-midsize businesses (SMB) to large enterprises. Ranked 109th on the FORTUNE 500®, Tech Data generated $21.4 billion in sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2007. For more information, visit www.techdata.ca.
For Tech Data inquiries, please contact:
Shannon Morton, APEX Public Relations
(416) 924-4442 ext. 253, smorton@apexpr.com
Samantha Kemp-Jackson, APEX Public Relations
(416) 924-4442 ext. 248, sjackson@apexpr.com
David Ethier, Tech Data Canada
(905) 286-6743, david.ethier@techdata.ca
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