I work for Maines Paper & Food Service based out of Binghamton NY. We sell and distribute food and other products to thousands of restaurants in the Northeast United States. We have about 1200 employees and $1.2 billion a year in sales.

I used SuperWaba to develop a scanning application for the Symbol SPT 1700. We use 18 of these devices rotated among our fleet. We download the entire contents of a delivery truck (about 1,000 cases) along with customer information. The driver then uses the SPT to scan all of the product for a customer at the point of delivery. This technology has enabled us to provide a "proof of delivery" and has cut down on lost revenue due to false claims of missing product.

I developed the Palm application using SuperWaba, the conduit using the Palm CDK (java version) and a desktop application that integrates with our host system also using java.

"In fact, we are the first in our industry to accomplish this. It's been something that we (and our competitors) have always talked about. However, the "professional" companies that sell portable scanning software are far too expensive (tens of thousands of dollars). With SuperWaba & a little Java learning curve, we developed our solution in-house. In my opinion, what we've developed is more robust, feature rich and more suited to our needs than any off-the-shelf product could ever have provided."

Without SuperWaba, I would not have been able to develop this application as I had no experience with the Palm OS (from a developer's standpoint) nor had I any experience with the C programming language.

Bill Kimler
Distribution Systems Manager

Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc
101 Broome Corp Parkway
Conklin, NY 13748

Phone: 607-779-1325
Fax: 607-779-1540
e-mail:Bill.Kimler@maines.net