Mantis, a leading supplier of extended Supply Chain Execution (SCE) software and solutions in Central Eastern Europe and Russia/CIS, and its partner ANT Technologies, a leading supplier of logistics and auto-id solutions in Russia/CIS, announced today that, VLC a major provider of logistics services in Russia, after a detailed market search has selected Mantis’ Logistics Vision Suite to automate and optimize its distribution center in Voronezh.

At the initial stage of that project, ant Technologies will automate the only class A warehouse premises in Voronezh. The warehouse is located on the highway M4 "Moscow-Don" near by the international airport. With a size of 36.000 pallet places and 32 gates VLC is successfully serving several leading companies operating in the Russian market.

The choice of the Logistic Vision Suite was made by the management of VLC based on the results of a competitive bidding with the participation of a number of leading local and international vendors of WMS solutions.

"Given the large scale of requirements imposed by VLC, we did our best to formulate a comprehensive solution capable of fully meeting both the present and future warehouse logistics needs of a professional 3PL operator," said Alexander Usov, CEO of ant Technologies.

"VLC is an important customer not only because of its market position but also because of its philosophy. VLC is a logistics services provider which is operating under very high standards. This is definitely creating very high expectations from the implementation of a logistics solution. We are confident that Mantis’ and Ant’s experience in Logistics Service Providers is ideally suited to meet VLC’s needs and expectations" states Nikos Iosif, International Business Development Manager of Mantis Informatics SA.