In the supply chain world, the difference between a successful delivery and a costly delay can come down to milliseconds. Whether it’s a warehouse management system updating stock levels or a logistics dashboard rerouting a delivery, performance and reliability are paramount. FDC Solutions’ software is renowned for empowering real-time visibility and decision-making in these critical scenarios.
To ensure our customers’ operations run at the true speed of business, we have strategically partnered with LightEdge. By hosting FDC’s planning, warehouse, and tracking applications on their platform, we guarantee low-latency response times, the elimination of bottlenecks, and exceptional uptime. This powerhouse combination allows you to harness the value of real-time data like never before, confident that the underlying technology will not slow you down.
Low-Latency, High-Octane Cloud Infrastructure
The core of performance is infrastructure, and LightEdge is engineered for speed.
We chose LightEdge because their dedicated cloud offerings utilize enterprise-grade hardware and network architecture specifically tuned for demanding supply chain workloads. This means FDC’s software—including warehouse scanners, inventory databases, and tracking systems—communicates faster with the cloud, with minimal lag. LightEdge is built to run workloads with low latency and high reliability on enterprise hardware designed for demanding environments.
The impact is tangible:
FDC’s software interfaces respond quickly, and data updates propagate instantly across your sites.
LightEdge’s design can provide dedicated resources for your FDC applications, ensuring that your workloads run at peak performance without interference from other tenants (the "noisy neighbor" problem).
You get cloud agility without sacrificing the snappy performance of an on-premise setup.
No Bottlenecks – FDC Apps Run Free
Aging systems are often plagued by performance bottlenecks when transaction volumes surge. This cannot happen in a modern supply chain.
We chose LightEdge because their scalable and elastic cloud architecture allows FDC’s applications to run freely. If your volume of transactions or data grows, LightEdge can allocate more CPU, memory, or bandwidth on the fly. They offer real-time scalability and dedicated resources to handle complex, high-volume workloads with ease.
For example, when your online parts orders double during a seasonal surge, the combination of FDC’s efficient software and LightEdge’s elastic cloud ensures your order management and warehouse systems won’t choke under pressure. Our own modules, like the K*Track package tracking application, which provides real-time visibility into the status and location of inventory and shipments, can fully realize their potential on this architecture. Every scan, update, or sensor reading flows instantly to where it's needed, enabling agile, data-driven decision-making without frustrating delays.
Rock-Solid Reliability and Uptime
High performance is only valuable if it’s consistently available. Reliability is non-negotiable for FDC, and here too, LightEdge excels.
We chose LightEdge because their cloud solutions emphasize redundancy, rapid failover, and continuous backup, ensuring your supply chain is always operational. Their infrastructure delivers resilient infrastructure with exceptional uptime, which is why a logistics company, for example, saw a 98% improvement in mean downtime after moving to LightEdge’s hybrid cloud, gaining the stability, high availability, and resiliency they needed, immediately.
LightEdge’s data centers and cloud platform are built with multiple layers of fail-safes (power, network, hardware clustering) to prevent outages. They also include built-in backup and disaster recovery capabilities, ensuring that your data remains available and intact, even under challenging conditions.
For supply chain managers, this translates to confidence: the inventory system won't go down in the middle of peak season, and the production planning tool will be online to support that urgent schedule change. With FDC on LightEdge, you get a one-two punch of speed and dependability. When your IT runs at the speed of business, you can consistently deliver for your customers without missing a beat.