Acrylic and Partners
Integration
Lines Of Business
Global Goodness
Fulfillment
100
Zones has received this award 9 out of the past 10 years. It is significant because it is only awarded to partners who maintain 99% or more on contract submission accuracy.
What is the Microsoft Operational Excellence Award?
100
This integration service allows a customer keep track of of who has what after they take delivery of a product.
What is Asset Tagging?
100
This line of business represents the bulk of Zones Advanced Technology sales.
What is Datacenter?
100
As one of the largest global end users of Apple products, This customer struggled to receive the Apple hardware products they needed in a timely fashion. Zones was able to win the business in several international geographies for all of this customer's client hardware, including Apple, Lenovo, HP, and ASUS, with a robust global logistic solution that exceeded their needs. Since being awarded the business, Zones has been recognized as this customer's top global vendor for execution multiple times.
What is Google?
100
This type of fulfillment is how Zones got it's start and it's the basis for how we became really good at what we do with our flagship customers like Starbuck's and Nordstrom's.
What is Pick Pack and Ship?
200
This leading technology publication has listed Zones as one of their "Tech Elite 250" list of companies for the past 4 years, and has also listed us in their "Solution Provider 500" list for the past 3 years.
What is CRN?
200
This allows a customer to take delivery of notebooks, PC's and mobile devices with all of the applications they use pre-loaded.
What is Custom Imaging / Imaging?
200
This line of business became as a result of a strong relationship with one of our manufacturer partners.
What is IoT (Internet of Things)?
200
This was the second Zones global sales office to open.
What is Zones Canada (Toronto) / The Canada Zone
200
This simple packing method for pallets allows customers to easily track expensive equipment on security cameras.
What is colored shrink wrap?
300
This partner who is the market share leader for enterprise databases awarded Zones with their "Specialized Partner of the Year" award for 2015 as a result of selling their hardware solutions.
What is Oracle?
300
This service places hardware under artificial workloads to stress-test against basic mechanical and electronic component failure. This ensures that the hardware will work once delivered and saves the customer from the potential inconvenience of having to engage the manufacturer for warranty service right after delivery.
What is System Burn-In?
300
This line of business usually encompasses all of the other lines of businesses and represents the technology that IT Directors fear the most.
What is Mobility?
300
The opening of this office in 2016 will allow Zones to fulfill in parts of the Middle East and Africa that we were not previously able to cover.
What is Zones Dubai (UAE)?
300
A guide created during integration at Carol Stream that walks an end user through setting up a device to ensure that there are no difficulties. This is especially helpful for remote users who may be far removed from IT staff.
What is Open Me First Documentation?
400
We are a Corporate PLUS member of this minority business council, which means that we are in the top 0.5% of businesses in the United States who are members of the council. This is significant because in order to earn this classification, Zones had to have a client sponsor us. Our sponsor was Nordstrom's.
What is the NMSDC / National Minority Supplier Development Council?
400
This service bundles different products together so that they can all be more easily ordered by the customer as one line item instead of several lines. This also makes it so that all of the items ship and deliver at the same time making fulfillment easier to manage.
What is Kitting?
400
This line of business is the fastest growing in our industry and at Zones. It is one of the largest areas of opportunity to present ZDS (Zones Discovery Services) and other assessments and services to customers.
What is Cloud?
400
This global sales office will help Zones expand fulfillment in Eastern Europe and Asia.
What is Zones Turkey?
400
Inventory that Zones stores in a proprietary warehouse and either performs professional services "on" the equipment before shipping to the customer, or bundles with other Zones purchased equipment before sending to the customer. This product may also be simply "stored" by Zones in which a storage fee is assessed to the customer.
What is Customer Owned Product (COP)?
500
We are an associate member of this minority business council. The reason we are not a full member is due to Zones not being headquartered in the UK.
What is the MSDUK / Minority Supplier Development Council United Kingdom?
500
This service helps customers who buy PC's and notebooks pre-loaded with one operating system to load another operating system or service pack that is not on the OEM image.
What is Operating System Load?
500
This is not considered to be a line of business, but represents the largest source of revenue for Zones. It is also how we showcase our fulfillment and integration capability.
What is Core?
500
This Zones global office came as a result of the acquisition of a small company similar to ours and was our first global sales office.
What is Zones UK?
500
Products a customer orders PRIOR to a sales order placement in order to help with forecast, projects or rollouts to minimize lead time. A Customer Specific Configuration is required. Purchasing also consults with Sales to determine the customer needs and to recommend stocking levels and the replenishment strategy (including min/max).The customer also must commit to taking delivery of these products within 60 days.
What is an Inventory Allocation Request (IAR)?
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