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June 16, 2002 -- IBM Certified Technology Solutions for Authorized Assembler Program
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| With the help of fellow CM employees, Raymond Cudar, CM's director, VAD production, accepts the award from IBM. |
For the fifth consecutive year, IBM has certified Avnet Computer Marketing (CM) for its Authorized Assembler Program (AAP). The AAP certification allows CM's division, Avnet Hall-Mark and Avnet Enterprise Solutions, to provide customers with custom assembly and configuration services.
The AAP applies to a select group of IBM business partners approved to configure IBM systems and servers according to customer specifications. IBM supplies partially assembled servers and components to its AAP participants, who in turn perform configuration and final assembly services prior to delivery. The certification allows CM to configure, integrate, load software on and test solutions before shipment to the customer, which reduces order cycle time and improves availability of customer-configured product.
AAP, coupled with OSCaR (CM's online customization request system), has been shown to significantly reduce order cycle time for custom-configured products, in some cases by more than 50 percent, says Larry Ernst, CM's vice president, integration.
To become AAP certified, CM had to pass an IBM quality audit that reviewed the company's work processes, training, product knowledge and quality control procedures. CM passed the audit with zero findings from IBM.
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