TranSystems, a professional services consulting firm focused on the secure and efficient movement of goods and people, is experiencing growth in their manufacturing and distribution sector, specifically in warehouse management systems (WMS) integration.
The company has recently won contracts with Exel, JBS, and Avnet to provide services in WMS integration. TranSystems has recently hired new experts in this area with a plan to grow further in the next six months. The new hires include experts:
- Edward Jones, Operations management and engineering solutions
- Jonathan Hopper, Warehouse management systems
- Ralph Potter, WMS implementation
Jones is an operations management and engineering solutions provider with more than 25 years experience in WMS, automated control systems, leading-edge automation technologies and delivering manufacturing automation and systems optimization. Prior to TranSystems, Jones served as a product manager at Real Time Solutions, Inc., where he designed and implemented high-efficiency order fulfilling systems. He later joined Working Machines Corporation as Director of Distribution Services. He designed, managed, and implemented order fulfillment, high-level warehouse execution systems, low-level machine controls and trained end-users. He later became a consultant providing expertise to a number of different companies, offering analysis and recommendations on improvements to warehouse management systems and manufacturing optimization, and training for personnel.
With expertise in WMS, Hopper brings more than five years of on-site experience to the TranSystems team. Hopper’s past experience includes retail and wholesale sector Red Prairie consulting for two major apparel distributors, two major consumer distributors and one leading pharmaceutical distributor – eight distribution centers in total specializing in end-to-end process testing and documentation, process analysis and improvement, warehouse layout review and recommendation, project management, team mentoring, and leadership.
Potter brings to TranSystems more than 18 years of experience in managing complex projects, including WMS deployment and implementation, involving integration with numerous proprietary business systems. Prior to TranSystems, Potter provided commerce engineering consulting services to a number of organizations such as J. Crew, Global Transportation Solutions, Ryder, and Texas Utility Services. His responsibilities included project management, strategic planning, and operations review. Potter attended Western Michigan University where he studied Manufacturing Administration.
“With these enhancements to our staff, TranSystems is has the capacity to better serve our new and existing WMS clients and experience further growth in the near future” said Scott Pribula, market sector leader in the manufacturing and distribution sector and principal at TranSystems.
Based in Kansas City, Mo., with offices around the U.S., TranSystems serves clients across the nation such as private and public entities and governmental and quazi-governmental organizations in nine distinct market sectors, including freight rail, passenger rail and transit, states and municipalities, airports and air carriers, manufacturers and distributors, ports and maritime, trucking and automotive, energy and communications, and federal government. Bringing to its clients myriad service offerings, TranSystems prides itself on providing the entire transportation experience.
About TranSystems’ Management and Supply Chain Consulting Group
While TranSystems’ experts typically work together from offices around the country, the Management and Supply Chain Group is based in the expanding Dallas, Texas, office. TranSystems helps organizations improve supply chain performance through supply chain strategy, facilities and strategic master planning, operations consulting, simulations, supply chain technology and systems.