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Gartner, Inc. lists enVista as a Specialist Services Provider of Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting Services, among several other offerings across the end-to-end supply chain

INDIANAPOLIS (November 30, 2022) – enVista, a global consulting, managed services and automation firm, today announces that it has been recognized in the Market Guide for Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting published by Gartner, Inc., a company delivering actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. This is enVista’s fifth consecutive year being named in this report.

Gartner, Inc. recognized enVista as a Specialist Services Provider in the Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting Services category. In the report, Gartner said, “Better access to data within client systems, greater availability of data across markets and industries and improved analytical tools are enabling consulting firms to compress or automate elements of strategy and roadmap development.” Gartner continued, “The supply chain strategy, planning and operations consulting market is changing and consolidating in response to market and technology forces. Supply chain leaders can use this Market Guide to find the right consulting firm.”

enVista’s CEO, John Stitz, said, “We are honored to be recognized by Gartner as a Specialist Services Provider of Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting Services. We take our role as a trusted advisor to some of the world’s leading supply chains very seriously. The role of the supply chain has been brought into the spotlight more than ever, illuminating its importance to the profitability and customer satisfaction of an organization. I look forward to seeing how enVista continues to support these organizations in mastering their supply chain strategies with top-tier people, processes and technology.”

enVista is recognized for its supply chain solutions, including supply chain strategy and roadmap, supply chain network design and optimization, supply chain planning and S&OP, sourcing strategy, omnichannel strategy, transportation and distribution strategy operations, warehouse design, automation, slotting and labor management, fleet management, organizational change management and Lean operations and improvement.

enVista’s global supply chain consulting services and enabling technologies include: supply chain strategy and network design; product flow and inventory optimization; robotics and automation; material handling and facility design build; systems evaluation, selection and implementation; demand planning and forecasting; supply chain optimization, workforce management and much more.

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Gartner, Market Guide for Supply Chain Strategy, Planning and Operations Consulting, 9^th  November 2022, Michael Dominy

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This award honors Pavlic for accomplishments and mentorship, setting a foundation for women at all levels of the supply chain industry

INDIANAPOLIS (September 27, 2022) – enVista, a leading supply chain and enterprise technology consulting firm, today announces that Supply & Demand Chain Executive selected enVista Director, Transportation, Britain Pavlic, as a recipient of the 2022 Women in Supply Chain award. Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only publication covering the entire global supply chain.

The Women in Supply Chain award honors female supply chain leaders and executives whose accomplishments, mentorship and examples set a foundation for women at all levels of a company’s supply chain network. This year’s list includes individuals from all over the industry who have helped supply chain clients and the supply chain community at large prepare to meet many of today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.

Pavlic has a proven record of using innovation to improve transportation network processes and logistics operations. Pavlic has held management roles for two decades, focusing in areas from customer service to quality control, technology implementation and integration and solutions architecture and design. In her role as director, technology consulting, Pavlic guided her team through removing manual touch of 2,000+ weekly customer invoices with an automated cost allocation system, increasing efficiency immensely.

Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics, said, “When I launched this award three years ago, I envisioned a long road ahead in educating the supply chain industry as to why it was important to recognize women in the supply chain. This award, the winners and those who submitted nominations—both men and women— are a testament that supply chain organizations were already recognizing their female leaders; they just needed a better platform.” Mayer continued, “This year, we received over 280 submissions, almost 100 of which came from men. I’m proud to call these women mentors, role models and industry friends and to help promote their journey.”

Britain Pavlic, enVista’s director of transportation, said, “I am honored and humbled to receive this award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive, but I would be remiss not to give credit to all of the incredible women who have inspired me and led me to this point in my career. Having worked in the supply chain industry for so many years, I have witnessed and benefited from the industry-wide empowerment and development of women in transportation. It is my true passion to continue supporting and nurturing the legacy of women in leadership within our industry.”

Visit Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s website here to view the full list of 2022 Women in Supply Chain winners, here to learn more about upcoming Supply & Demand Chain Executive awards and here to register for Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s upcoming Women in Supply Chain Forum.

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About Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more. Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sister publication Food Logistics are also home to L.I.N.K. podcast channel, SCNSummit.com, SupplyChainLearningCenter.com, the Women in Supply Chain Forum and more. Go to www.SDCExec.com to learn more.

As CEO, Stitz will lead enVista in continued growth of global supply chain consulting, IT managed services, Microsoft, robotics and automation solutions

INDIANAPOLIS (September 1, 2022) – enVista, a global consulting, managed services and automation firm, today announces that Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of enVista, John Stitz, has been named CEO. Stitz will lead enVista in its continued mission to provide top-tier consulting services across the end-to-end supply chain.

Stitz co-founded enVista in 2002 to enable business leaders to improve efficiencies, profitability and customer service. During his tenure at enVista, he led the transportation solutions team in providing unmatched global freight audit and payment and consulting solutions to leading shippers as well as leading sales and business development to foster enVista’s growth.

Stitz has garnered more than 25 years of leadership in the supply chain, transportation and IT services fields. Prior to enVista, he held several leadership roles in the supply chain industry, gaining experience in marketing, sales and management. A few of Stitz’s roles included Vice President, Sales and Marketing at The Summit Group, Inc.; Vice President, Marketing and Strategic Alliances at Intrepa, and Senior Director, Strategic Alliances at Manhattan Associates. Stitz has also earned recognition as an industry leader, including being selected as a Pro to Know by Supply & Demand Chain Executive in 2015.

Stitz said, “After 20 years of building enVista to become a leading consulting firm, I am honored to step into the role of CEO at enVista. I am excited about the momentum I can already feel in the company and look forward to what we will accomplish as we laser-focus on providing the premier global supply chain consulting, IT managed services, Microsoft, robotics and automation solutions to our customers.”

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Over its 20-year history, enVista has become a fastest-growing global provider, delivering solutions for thousands of clients

INDIANAPOLIS (August 25, 2022) – enVista, a global software, consulting, managed services and automation firm optimizing and transforming physical and digital commerce, today announces the celebration of its 20^th anniversary.  

Since its founding in 2002, enVista has grown from a two-person organization to an established and trusted firm with more than 850 global associates, 2,600 global clients and 8,200 solutions delivered. enVista started with a strategic focus on supply chain systems selections and implementations and freight audit and payment solutions and has since grown to offer hundreds of solutions across supply chain and transportation consulting, systems selections and implementations, freight audit and payment, omnichannel commerce, automation, enterprise technology and managed services.

Upon enVista’s upcoming sale of its unified commerce platform and freight audit and payment services to Körber, the firm will be returning to its core offerings, remaining the industry’s most-trusted solutions provider in the market with a strategic focus on supply chain consulting, managed services, enterprise technology and automation.

enVista’s CEO, Jim Barnes, said, “When my co-founder, John Stitz, and I founded enVista 20 years ago, we had no idea just how far we would come with the help of our incredibly talented and dedicated team. It has been an honor to lead enVista in transforming global supply chains for the better.” Barnes continued, “As enVista evolves moving forward, I can’t wait to see how we can continue to grow and serve our customers with a laser focus on end-to-end supply chain consulting.”

enVista’s CRO and Co-founder, John Stitz, said, “The supply chain industry has seen its highs and lows over the last two decades, and it has been an honor to ride alongside our customers, helping them navigate the tides with world-class software solutions and consulting services. I look forward to seeing what more is to come, and how we, our associates and our customers will continue to grow together.”

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enVista uniquely positions its EMEA FAP practice to meet the growing demand for shippers outside of North America

INDIANAPOLIS (August 4, 2022) – enVista, a global software, consulting, managed services and automation firm optimizing and transforming physical and digital commerce, today announces that its EMEA-based Freight Audit and Payment practice saw a 48% YoY revenue increase from 2020 to 2021.

enVista established its North American FAP practice in 2002. Following more than a decade of success, it expanded its FAP practice, opening an office in Liverpool, United Kingdom in 2014 to meet customer demands in EMEA.

enVista Director of Global Implementation, Chas Kocks, said, “Our EMEA practice is growing because we’re focused on removing the traditional barriers to international FAP. We take care of our customers’ transportation partners by offering flexible, electronic invoice options and pursuing completely paperless solutions. We also eliminate resistance to the idea of a third-party partnership and outsourced models by sharing the compelling success stories from our North American partnerships. As a result, much of our business comes from existing relationships that want to share the value with their international affiliates, establish financial control and visibility, and ultimately have a best-in-class global business process for FAP.”

Kocks continued, “What separates enVista from our competition is our people – we sell global FAP and back it up with the network of global offices and experienced resources well-versed in the legal, regulatory and cultural requirements of an international audit and outsourced financial process. We work in the time zone, speak the language and provide dedicated FAP support for our customers and their carrier network anywhere in the world.”

enVista’s global FAP practice services more than 400 customers with a 98% client retention rate. The EMEA FAP operation supports over 225 individual fiscal sites across 27 customer partnerships.

enVista provides comprehensive solutions to help shippers solve complex global transportation challenges and reduce costs. Solutions include transportation consulting, strategic sourcing, contract optimization, transportation-specific business intelligence, global freight audit and payment services and enVista Pay^® to reduce the burden of paying freight bills on time. enVista’s proprietary myShipINFO^® the engine powering high-performance transportation teams delivers powerful BI capabilities, including large amounts of data attributes and options to visualize company spend in a variety of dashboards and customizable reports.

enVista’s FAP services have been acquired by Körber. Learn more about the sale and what it means for enVista and Körber in our recent press release.

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enVista’s project is spotlighted among transformational supply chain projects delivering bottom-line value

INDIANAPOLIS (July 26, 2022) – enVista, a global software, consulting, managed services and automation firm optimizing and transforming physical and digital commerce, today announces Supply & Demand Chain Executive, the only publication covering the entire global supply chain, selected enVista as a recipient of the 2022 Top Supply Chain Projects Award for its warehouse management system (WMS) implementation project for Big Rock Sports with Körber.

enVista’s WMS Implementation team partnered with Körber’s development team to provide client-side testing, training, operational planning and project management services to upgrade Big Rock’s legacy WMS, improving inventory and picking accuracy and reducing fines and chargebacks while lowering overall labor costs.

enVista’s Sr. Director, Technology, Amit Kirpalani, said, “It was an honor working with Big Rock to rapidly deliver a top-tier WMS to facilitate success in meeting current and future customer and business objectives. Leveraging our unique enABLE methodology, we guided the project through the implementation lifecycle in four distinct phases – assess, build, learn and execute. This allowed our team to take the necessary time and steps to learn Big Rock’s most important business objectives and enable those objectives with maximum efficiency and profitability.”

Shannon Adams, Big Rock Sports’ VP of information technology, said, “After more than two years of planning and COVID-19 interruptions, we went live on our new WMS software and are thrilled with the results. I cannot recommend enVista enough as a valued partner for helping us get this project through the first checkpoint.”

Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics, said, “The past 18 months have been a tumultuous time for U.S. supply chains, but the solutions providers on this list have partnered diligently with customers and clients to streamline processes, implement emerging technology and deliver results, ultimately improving bottom lines and keeping supply chains afloat. For many of these collaborations, it’s about achieving full visibility, complete forecasting, end-to-end leverage and sustainability.”

Visit Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s website to view the full list of this year’s Top Supply Chain Project winners.

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About Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the only supply chain publication covering the entire global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more. Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sister publication Food Logistics are also home to L.I.N.K. and L.I.N.K. Educate podcast channels, L.I.N.K. Live, SCN Summit, SupplyChainLearningCenter.com and more. Go to www.SDCExec.com to learn more.

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