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ScanSource names Xavier Cartiaux president of international operations
2012-03-14
Belgium : ScanSource has named Xavier Cartiaux president of international operations. In this newly created position, Mr Cartiaux will be responsible for leading the strategic direction and management of the company's international business units, which today include Europe and Latin America. Mr Cartiaux previously served as President of ScanSource Europe where he managed all European operations, including the company's POS and Barcoding and Communications sales units. He also provided oversight for all support operations, including Accounting, Reseller Financial Services, Finance, Logistics, Human Resources, Legal and Customer Service. Mr Cartiaux joined the company in 2002 as Merchandising Director, later becoming Managing Director before being named President in 2009. He has more than 18 years of experience in distribution, including more than seven years with broadline distributor Ingram Micro, where he held a number of positions, including Purchasing Manager and Senior Buyer.

ScanSource Communications Europe signs distribution agreement with Acme Packet
2011-12-28
Network and telecom VAD ScanSource Communications Europe has signed a distribution agreement with session border controller vendor Acme Packet, which extends the agreement between the two companies in North America signed earlier this year to Europe. Acme Packet session border controllers (SBCs) enable the delivery of next-generation voice, data and unified communications applications across IP networks. Acme Packet SBCs support a wide range of applications, including unified communications, SIP trunking, IP contact centres and hosted IP communications services for SMBs to large enterprises. Acme Packet products are available through Scansource Communications Europe offices in Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

ScanSource Communications launches its online ordering and information system
2011-11-21
Network and telecoms VAD ScanSource Communications Europe has launched its online ordering and product information system. Integrated in its website, it is available for all its active resellers in Germany and the United Kingdom. This system allows users that need it to order their products outside of normal working hours, and has been made possible with the centralization of the warehouse of Scansource in Liège, Belgium.

ScanSource in the limelight
2011-10-18
For the fourth year, POS and AIDC specialist ScanSource Europe and its telco and network counterpart ScanSource Communication has setup camp in Paris, as a part of the French stopover of its Partner Tour (which stopped previously in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Italy, Sweden and Poland and will continue before the end of the year in Germany and Spain). 230 visitors have met about 30 vendors, some classic like Honeywell, Intermec, Zebra or Motorola, and some other more original like the Dutch company Dyzle, which has developed wifi temperature sensors, which can be queried through the Internet and are largely used by McDonald's in the Netherlands. The number of visitors is a bit lower than the British or German stopovers of the Partner Tour, which is due to the fact that ScanSource has a smaller ScanSource Communication business in the country (indeed, only two vendors – Lifesize and Extreme Networks – were present in Paris for this division). The company also had to deal with a teacher strike on the same day, because of which many people had to take care of their children and could not get out to any event.

During the event, the distributor has unveiled to its French resellers its latest marketing initiative, including Sumo (its international social network which gathers vendors, VARs, system integrators and ISVs) and AppSource (an online software shop which is similar to the AppStore).

Richard Grégoire, ScanSource Europe's Southern Europe sales director, also reviewed the integration of ScanSource Communication in the company, following the centralization of its warehouse in Liège, in Belgium : “beside this centralization and the sharing of several services, the integration of ScanSource Communication in ScanSource Europe will allow us to share best-practices, like the ScanSource University training centre, which has been setup by ScanSource Communication and is being duplicated in our POS/AIDC business. With ScanSource Communications, we also plan to be able to answer to some broader needs of our resellers, especially in the VoIP and videoconferencing businesses”, he says. This strategy will be easier to implement on the short term in Germany or the United Kingdom, where ScanSource Communications has a broader portfolio, but will take longer to materialize in France, as its local offer is currently very limited. ScanSource Communication is thus working hard on expanding its portfolio in this country.

Scansource centralizes its warehouse to Liège
2011-09-09
Belgium : in order to bring greater scalability to its resellers, network and telecom VAD Scansource Communications has decided to move its warehouse in Cologne, Germany to ScanSource Europe's logistics centre in Liège. This move expands the capacity of its warehouse from 500sqm to 12,000sqm. All Scansource Communications will from now one be served from this logistics centre, resulting in a broader choice and faster delivery.