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Beverly Hills, CA: The first installation of Motek's Priya Warehouse Management System is now live at Spire Group Ltd.’s 2,251,000 cubic foot public refrigerated warehouse facility in Montreal, Canada. Spire Group, through its subsidiaries Everest Cold Storage and Arctic Cold Storage, plans to implement Priya globally over the next five years in Toronto and Calgary, Canada, China, India, Romania, Russia, the United States and the Ukraine.

"Our goal of building smart warehouses requires a state-of-the art WMS that can be consistently deployed in multiple languages and locations across our rapidly-growing global customer base," says Robb Lockie, director of information technology for Everest Cold Storage. “Priya’s quick formula for easy deployment at our Montreal facility has demonstrated the capabilities we need to roll out a solution of this magnitude."

Spire Group selected Priya for its robust functionality, including engineered labor standards, third-party logistics (3PL) billing, flexible reports and voice-enabled RF picking capabilities. Priya's Windows-based product architecture will enable individual warehouses within the Spire network to quickly and easily configure Priya to support customer specific requirements without custom programming. In addition, Priya seamlessly interfaces to existing customer IT systems. For Spire Group, these inherent features translate to a low total cost of ownership.

"Priya ensures we build smart warehouses by providing comprehensive management systems for receiving, billing, picking, customer communication and employee labor standards,” notes Lockie, who considered numerous solutions and conducted in-depth interviews with Priya users before selecting Motek.

The Spire management team that built Atlas Cold Storage into a dominant force in the North American PRW market intends to replicate its success on an international level with Spire Group. "Spire’s executive team is known in the PRW refrigerated warehouse market for driving innovation and leveraging leading-edge systems to create world-class warehouses,” says Motek sales consultant Frank Testani. “The ease with which they took Priya live coupled with the ability to bring their team fully up-to-speed quickly underscores Motek’s commitment to delivering advanced capabilities and a significant, fast return on investment.”