Intelligrated^® (intelligrated.com), a leading North American-based automated material handling solutions provider, announces the hire of David Erickson as vice president, software development, for its NY-based software subsidiary company, Knighted^® (knightedsoftware.com).

With 23 years of experience in the supply chain and logistics industry, Erickson will manage Knighted application development teams to produce supply chain software solutions. He reports directly to Dan Napoli, senior vice president, research and development, Knighted.

“We’re pleased to welcome David to Knighted,” says Greg Cronin, executive vice president, Intelligrated. “His deep industry experience will help us leverage Knighted’s unique technical innovations to deliver world-class software applications to our customers.”

Before joining Knighted, Erickson held product development, implementation services and performance engineering positions for RedPrairie, helping grow the company from a 35-person shop to more than 1800 associates. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Carroll University in Waukesha, WI.

Knighted delivers an innovative suite of fulfillment execution systems that increase order fulfillment accuracy and velocity for the e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, 3PL, wholesale and consumer products industries. The Knighted suite includes warehouse management (WMS), warehouse control (WCS), order fulfillment, labor management and supply chain business intelligence software.