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Five Indiana University and two Purdue University graduates have joined the staff of software solutions leader Blue Horseshoe.

Indiana University graduates Andrew Doering of Bloomington, Ind., Scott Engledow of Crystal Lake, Ill., Dan Giangiulio of Valparaiso, Ind., and Evan Russ and Michael Sigler, both of Carmel, join Purdue University graduates Linda Nolan and Philip Winstead, both of Lafayette, Ind., as Blue Horseshoe software development consultants.

All seven new Blue Horseshoe employees reside in Carmel, Ind., and will work at Blue Horseshoe’s corporate headquarters in Carmel.

Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that has been providing expert consulting and packaged software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses in the food and beverage, third-party logistics, retail, wholesale distribution, healthcare and manufacturing industries throughout the world since 1983.

J.J. Taylor Companies started out in 1958 as a small beer distributor in northern Massachusetts. Today, the company is one of the top beer distributors in the United States. J.J. Taylor employs more than 900 in Florida and Minnesota and sells a mix of domestic, import and craft brewery brands.

With company expansion and increased demand for high-quality customer service, J.J. Taylor wasn’t able to manage its dated inventory control practices, manual replenishment and shipping processes to meet its high standards of quality, accuracy and customer service. So the company turned to Blue Horseshoe.

Blue Horseshoe has transformed J.J. Taylor’s manual inventory and shipping systems into efficiently automated and highly accurate processes. Blue Horseshoe retooled operational practices and implemented Manhattan Associates’ SCALE Warehouse Management System to work in conjunction with existing systems, including Rutherford’s route accounting solution, eoStar and Vertique’s automated case pick material handling device. SCALE’s online environment integrated well with J.J. Taylor’s existing technology, allowing for easy user adoption. Blue Horseshoe also developed a best-in-class operational model and continues to work with J.J. Taylor to replicate in additional facilities across its existing Florida and Minnesota footprint.

“Our solutions have eliminated time-consuming and costly manual inventory processes and created an environment that empowers management to make effective decisions,” said Josh Holmes, account director and partner at Blue Horseshoe. “J.J. Taylor can now accurately replenish its forward-picking areas and existing automated pallet-building devices and electronically manage its route/stop sequencing, outbound dock and systematic loading operations to assure order accuracy.”

Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that has been providing expert consulting and packaged software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world since 1983. Based in North America, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency.

Jeff Moore has joined software development and solutions firm Blue Horseshoe as a director of business development. Originally from Indianapolis, his primary role with the company is to develop and execute targeted industry marketing and sales plans to generate business opportunities that lead to revenue growth and develop a partner network to provide complete solutions to mid-market clients.

Before joining Blue Horseshoe, Moore was a global account executive for 20 years at Texas Instruments in Carmel, where he lead a global sales force to grow semiconductor revenue. Previously, he worked as a systems engineer at AT&T in Indianapolis and as a software engineer for Electrospace in Dallas.

He earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. A resident of Carmel, Moore is a member of the Indianapolis Racers Travel Hockey Association. He and wife Karen have a son, Brock, 10.

Blue Horseshoe is a privately held software development and solution services firm that has been providing expert consulting and packaged order management and supply chain software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world since 1983. Based in North America, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency.

Blue Horseshoe, a software solutions company, is in the final stages of implementing extensive software solutions for national transportation and warehousing company Biagi Brothers.

Biagi Brothers is a Napa, Calif., company that operates more than 300 semis and 700 tractor-trailers involved in national interstate and intrastate liquid, bulk and common freight carrier transportation and warehousing services. Primarily associated with the beverage industry, the company also warehouses and hauls commodities and operates 15 distribution centers and more than 2.3 million square feet of food-grade warehouse space throughout the nation.

Blue Horseshoe is implementing its Warehousing for AX (WAX) solution for Biagi Brothers. The WAX solution will integrate advanced supply chain capabilities into Biagi Brothers’ Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system and provide a real-time, global view of business operations with extended functionality for Dynamics AX to accomplish warehousing tasks more easily and efficiently.

The ultimate goal of the WAX implementation is to provide Biagi Brothers an integrated, comprehensive order management, distribution and financial system, says Kevin Paul, vice president of Blue Horseshoe. “WAX has the features and functionality necessary to integrate with the company’s TMW transportation system and replace existing financial and warehouse management systems.”

Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that has been providing expert consulting and packaged software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world since 1983. Based in North America, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency.

Batteries Plus, the nation’s largest all-battery retailer, has improved efficiency, accuracy and cycle time for purchase order processing by integrating a new supplier management solution with real-time reporting developed by Indianapolis-based Blue Horseshoe.

Prior to implementing Blue Horseshoe’s Vendor Portal, Batteries Plus manually managed its purchase order-to-payment process. This made it difficult for the company to work with vendors to place and manage purchase orders, ensure timely and accurate documentation to U.S. Customs to meet the requirements of new regulations in 2010 and track metrics of their other vendors during the purchase process.

Vendor Portal is a software solution that provides global visibility to the health of a supplier network, a real-time dashboard and reporting on individual supplier performance that enables companies to identify their top suppliers. It provides information that companies can leverage in negotiating supplier contracts, integrates seamlessly into a new or existing enterprise system and provides a live, automated global view of a company’s supply chain.

Within six months, Batteries Plus will roll out Vendor Portal to all domestic suppliers and expand the solution by implementing a new quality control step in the company’s overall work flow.

Recently, Blue Horseshoe announced its acquisition of Ohio-based TransTech Consulting Inc. and a major integrated software solutions deal with Florida-based Amalie Oil.

Blue Horseshoe, a Carmel, Ind.-based company that provides expert consulting in system implementation and integration to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world, announces its acquisition of Columbus, Ohio-based TransTech Consulting Inc., a global management consulting firm.

With the acquisition now finalized, TransTech becomes a division of Blue Horseshoe. TransTech’s headquarters will remain in Columbus and its leadership and management staff will remain intact.

A partner in working with Blue Horseshoe to apply world-class business applications to companies throughout the U.S. and overseas for several years, TransTech was founded in 1983 and has specialized in distribution and logistics design and implementation to economically solve clients’ business challenges. TransTech has improved profits for clients representing more than 50 different industries throughout the world, from heavy manufacturing to various types of distribution companies. Comprised of senior members with extensive experience in engineering, systems and business, TransTech has completed projects in the past two years in Mexico, the United Kingdom, China, India, Singapore and Romania.

“The acquisition of TransTech Consulting Inc. continues to position Blue Horseshoe as the only North American company that can provide integrated software solutions to sustain and enhance entire business operations under one roof,” said Kevin Paul, vice president of Blue Horseshoe. “TransTech has a long, proven and highly successful track record of providing unparalleled services in the publishing, automotive parts supply, medical and pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries for more than 25 years and we are very excited to add TransTech’s expertise, capabilities and global reach to existing Blue Horseshoe service offerings.”

Founded in 2001, Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that provides expert consulting and packaged software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world. Based in the North America, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency. For more about Blue Horseshoe, visit Blue Horseshoe online.

One of the nation’s largest family-owned oil companies has chosen Blue Horseshoe as its integrated software solutions provider to sustain and enhance its entire business operations. Amalie Oil Co. has contracted with Blue Horseshoe for its entire suite of integrated software solutions, including:

• Microsoft Dynamics AX: A Tier 1 ERP Solution, Microsoft Dynamics AX is a smart, safe, long-term decision designed to better equip employees with tools that automate and streamline processes while continually fueling business productivity.
• Business Intelligence as a Service (BIA2S): BIA2S provides a real-time, global view of a business and extracts critical information from all data sources to optimize a business and immediately impact the bottom line.
• Warehousing for AX: WAX provides a complete real-time, global view of a business by extending significantly advanced functionality around the ability of the Dynamics AX platform to accomplish warehousing tasks easily and efficiently while optimizing the supply chain. WAX aggregates and consolidates warehouse data.
• Vendor Portal: A Supplier Management Solution that integrates seamlessly into a new or existing Enterprise System and provides a real-time, automated, global view of a supply chain.

Founded in 2001, Blue Horseshoe is a privately held solution services firm that provides expert consulting in system implementation and integration to Fortune 500 and mid-market businesses throughout the world. Based in the Midwest, Blue Horseshoe assesses business needs and applies world-class business applications to improve profitability and increase efficiency.

“Amalie Oil Co. has an outstanding operation with a proven track record of providing the best products in the marketplace,” said Kevin Paul, vice president of Blue Horseshoe. “We are excited to put the entire, extensive suite of Blue Horseshoe integrated software solutions to work for Amalie Oil Co. and both improve and enhance the company’s total business operations.”

Founded in 1903 in Franklin, Pa., Amalie Oil Co. produces a full line of automotive, fleet, industrial and specialty lubricants. With a main production facility in Tampa, Fla., and satellite facilities in Jacksonville, Fla., and L.A., the company blends and packages nearly 200 different products shipped to every U.S. state and to more than 70 foreign countries. The Official Motor Oil of the International Hot Rod Association since 1999, Amalie Oil Co. also blends and packages private label products for other major oil companies, automotive retailers, programmed distribution groups, food and drug retailers and mass merchandisers.

“Blue Horseshoe was able to analyze our entire business operations and propose a very strategic, comprehensive bundle of solutions that will quickly and ultimately improve our overall efficiency as a company,” said Gianni Burket, chief information officer of Amalie Oil Co.