Growth is the ultimate objective of every business, but the critical question remains: is your IT infrastructure ready to grow with you? At FDC Solutions, we believe scaling up your supply chain operations should be an enabler, not a headache. This is why we partnered with LightEdge: to deliver a joint cloud solution designed with elasticity at its core, ensuring your systems can expand (or contract) seamlessly as your distribution, retail, or manufacturing business evolves.
Whether you are opening new warehouses in new regions or preparing for a seasonal surge in order volumes, FDC and LightEdge enable rapid, non-disruptive scaling. By partnering with LightEdge, we ensure that scalability is a built-in feature, future-proofing your operations.
Rapid Onboarding of New Locations
Adding a new distribution center or retail store used to be synonymous with weeks (or months) of frustrating IT setup—procuring servers, configuring complex networks, and installing software at the new physical location.
We chose LightEdge to simplify this process drastically. Because your core supply chain applications (like our Warehouse Management or Inventory Planning solutions) run centrally in LightEdge’s cloud, bringing a new location online is vastly simpler.
The heavy lifting is handled centrally. LightEdge’s cloud infrastructure can place every workload where it performs best, utilizing strategically located data centers for low-latency connectivity to your new site. Essentially, you can extend FDC’s solutions to a new location by just adding users and devices; the cloud scales behind the scenes. This results in:
Faster Go-Lives: New sites become operational quicker.
Market Agility: You can seize new market opportunities without being held back by IT provisioning delays.
Scale Compute and Storage Without Disruption
Growth inevitably means more transactions, more data, and increased complexity for your systems. The cloud environment must accommodate this seamlessly.
We chose LightEdge because their platform allows you to evolve your environment effortlessly, scaling infrastructure without disruption. Need more processing power to handle increased order volumes? More storage for years of transactional data? No problem.
LightEdge can allocate extra CPU, memory, or bandwidth on the fly. There is no need for costly forklift hardware upgrades or painful data migrations. Capacity increases happen in-place, with minimal to zero downtime. This elasticity works both ways: if you have seasonal demand that spikes and then falls, you can scale resources back to optimize costs. LightEdge’s private and hybrid cloud approach ensures that scaling is a smooth continuum, not a step-change event that interrupts your vital operations.
Elastic, Resilient Infrastructure for a Growing Supply Chain
Being "future-proof" means more than just handling greater volume; it means adapting to whatever new technologies the future brings.
We chose LightEdge because they provide an elastic, hybrid-ready foundation that can integrate new technologies as your business innovates. As you embrace IoT sensors in your warehouse or AI-driven analytics, LightEdge can quickly allocate the specialized resources (like GPU computing or edge cloud nodes) required to support those advanced workloads.
Furthermore, scaling with LightEdge doesn't compromise the reliability or security of your FDC solution. Even as you grow, you retain zero-downtime backup and disaster recovery coverage and the same robust compliance posture we discussed previously.
This strategic partnership is exemplified by how LightEdge helped a major client—the world’s largest Caterpillar dealer—consolidate and scale its complex, global infrastructure. They successfully moved from 14 on-premise data centers down to 2, relying on LightEdge’s cloud to handle growth more efficiently and with strong resiliency.
In essence, FDC and LightEdge give you a powerful growth engine. Your technology will flex and scale as needed, so you can pursue new markets and higher volumes without outpacing your IT infrastructure. Your supply chain technology becomes a true enabler of growth, not a bottleneck.