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Shaw Industries Adopts Vangard Voice Systems' Mobile Voice Platform to Cut Supply Chain Costs, Speed Delivery and Improve Customer Responsiveness
Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform Enables Shaw's IT Professionals to Optimize Existing Mobile Supply Chain Business Processes with Voice-Directed Data Capture and Application Control Capabilities
IRVINE, Calif., April 14, 2009 - Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. (Vangard), the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform for voice powering mobile enterprise applications, announced that Shaw Industries Group, Inc., the world's leading floor manufacturer, has adopted its Mobile Voice Platform to add high productivity hands-free, eyes-freeē voice-directed capabilities to its existing mobile supply chain applications. Shaw, a Berkshire Hathaway company, will leverage Vangardēs Mobile Voice Platform technology to further speed product delivery, customer responsiveness and achieve additional reductions in operational costs across the companyēs business processes.
"Shaw Industries is renowned as an industry game changerē through their relentless search, and adoption of new forward-thinking technologies," said Bob Bova, president and CEO of Vangard Voice Systems. "Particularly now during a struggling economy, we are pleased, but not surprised that Shaw again seized the opportunity to exploit another innovative technology, this time our Mobile Voice Platform, to drive down operational costs, improve customer service and increase employee productivity and safety."
Shaw Industries chose Vangardēs Mobile Voice Platform because of its ability to non-invasively add sophisticated voice capabilities to Shawēs existing applications, improving operational efficiencies and cutting costs. Using MVP, Shawēs IT organization avoids the expensive and often risky trade-offs traditionally related to replacing or rebuilding existing and already proven mobile applications or business processes, in order to adopt voice productivity.
"Vangardēs Mobile Voice Platform provides our IT professionals the ability to add high productivity voice capabilities wherever we see opportunities to improve customer service and reduce costs throughout the supply chain," said Heath Ridley, director of engineering and systems, Shaw Industries Group. "By employing Vangardēs voice solutions, we will further improve employee safety as well, by providing a hands-free, eyes free mobile capability that enables mobile employees to remain fully aware of the conditions that surround them, while achieving new levels of personal productivity and accuracy"
Shawēs first MVP implementation is a voice-powered cluster picking warehouse application that will further speed the time and accuracy of satisfying customer orders while reducing associated labor and overhead costs. Other voice-enabling projects being considered include additional warehouse applications, yard management and transportation related applications.
About Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the worldēs largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floor covering provider with more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 28,000 associates. Headquartered in Dalton, Ga., the company manufactures and distributes carpeting, rugs, hardwood, laminate and ceramic tile for residential and commercial applications worldwide. A recognized leader in environmental stewardship, Shaw has implemented hundreds of sustainability initiatives and cradle to cradle design solutions, collectively termed the Shaw Green Edge. For more information, visit www.shawfloors.com.
About Vangard Voice Systems
Vangard Voice Systems is the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech® Mobile Voice Platform (MVP) for enterprise-wide voice productivity deployment. MVP enables enterprises to achieve tactical, operational and strategic advantage through the deployment of voice-directed data capture and application control capabilities to existing mobile applications and business processes. The Mobile Voice Platform: provides one common, full lifecycle, platform solution; voice-enabling existing web-device, and server-based mobile applications, using complete device-resident voice operations. MVP complies with enterprise standards with device-, application- and network-independence.
Vangard's partners include Wavelink Corporation, Agilysys, Excalibur Integrated Systems, Nuance Communications, Avnet and Ingram Micro. Vangard solutions are available to government agencies on the GSA schedule. Vangard Voice is a Motorola PartnerSelect ISV partner and its voice technology is proven to operate effectively on a wide variety of devices including Motorola, Intermec, LXE, PsionTeklogix, Opticon and others. For more information, go to www.vangardvoice.com.
AccuSPEECH® is a registered trademark of Vangard Voice Systems, Inc. in the United States.