Antwerp, Belgium (PRWEB) December 10, 2011
The supply chain leaders identified and debated the following catalysts for business growth:
Burton, Michigan (PRWEB) January 04, 2012
Landaal Packaging Systems and The BoxMaker Inc. align to bring patented POPTECH displays to the Pacific Northwest.
Until now, all domestic manufacturing for the patented POPTECH automatic assembly displays was done in the state of Michigan. Today Landaal Packaging Systems, the owner of the patented technology within the United States, has teamed with alliance partner, The BoxMaker Inc., to expand manufacturing to the Pacific Northwest.
The BoxMaker Inc. is a Washington-based manufacturer with several distribution sites throughout the Pacific Northwest region. In addition to custom corrugated, The BoxMaker Inc. provides design services, labels, fabricated foam and a variety of packaging supplies.
As we expand the footprint for the POPTECH display brand, it was important for us to find a partner with a strong history of quality and service says Terry Choate, the Sales and Operations Planning Manager for Landaal Packaging Systems. The BoxMaker Inc. fits that mold perfectly added Choate. They are a privately held company with a strong focus on providing value to their customer base.
Richard Brown, Vice President of The BoxMaker Inc., shared, The patented POPTECH display system is a value added offering for our market. Feedback from the customer base is very positive and POPTECH’s increase in sell-through percentages is creating excitement and positive buzz about the benefits in the retail point-of-purchase marketplace”.
Our goal is to increase our presence in graphic corrugated, says Jennifer Pruss, Business Development Manager for the The BoxMaker Inc. By teaming with Landaal and offering the POPTECH branded displays, we have taken a big step in accomplishing this goal, says Pruss.
Poptech patented technology allows for signs, merchandisers, tiltbacks, step displays and many other point of purchase displays to be assembled at the retailer in seconds. One large value for the CPG manufacturers is that they can streamline their production process and eliminate separate pack-out stations, in some instances. The value for the retailer is no added labor at the store level. Both levels of business enjoy a lowered overall freight due to a smaller footprint for the product.
Landaal Packaging Systems is an industry leader in corrugated, point of purchase displays, contract packaging, sustainable products and fulfillment services. The company recently invested in the patented POPTECH technology, which allows them to offer the quickest assembly time on the market.
For more information about Landaal Packaging Systems, please contact the Sales and Operations Planning Manager, Terry Choate, 810-223-0605 or visit the website http://www.landaal.com/pop.
For more information on The BoxMaker Inc., please contact: Jennifer Pruss at 1-425-291-1229 or go to http://www.boxmaker.com
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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) January 11, 2012
Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced that it doubled sales year over year, posting 104 percent bookings growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 and 94 percent growth for the year. This marks Tableaus eighth year of record sales. Tableau also grew its worldwide customer base by 40 percent in 2011 and now has more than 7,000 organizations using its fast analytics products. Tableau experienced big growth with customers in Europe, growing its base there by 67 percent.
eBay, the worlds largest online marketplace and a leader in mobile commerce, saw early on the benefits of leveraging Tableau as one of the tools to support the companys vision of using data to deliver some of the enhanced features across eBay.com.
Tableaus capabilities and ease of use enable eBays teams to take a collaborative approach to exploring data and to making results available seamlessly across the business, said Kiril Evtimov, director of BI Platform and Architecture at eBay. Business agility and speed of innovation are critical for continuing to improve the customer experience on eBay, and using Tableau is one of the ways were able to more quickly and easily maximize data assets.
Eurostar, the high-speed passenger rail service between the UK and mainland Europe, began using Tableau to analyze data collected as part of its Fizzback onboard satisfaction survey. Germanys Kabel Deutschland is using Tableau to analyze data related to billing, fraud and collection processes, while France-based renewable energies company, Areva Renouvelable, is using Tableau in its sales and operations planning and master production planning.
Dublin-based insurance provider, Irish Life, selected Tableau to support its new vision for BI. From our experience with Tableau Software, we can see that the return on investment is already being delivered, said Gerry Hassett, CEO at Irish Life Retail. The whole implementation of my CEO dashboards has taken a few weeks and has been a seamless operation. We can now see what is happening on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis which means we can develop our business accordingly and further enhance our competitive edge.
Tableaus growth is a symbol of what we believe is one of the most important trends in technology the consumerization of enterprise technology, said Christian Chabot, CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. We are ushering business analytics out of the dark ages and into its golden era of fast, easy, visual self-service analytics for everyone. The impact for our customers is tremendous.
In July, Tableau announced localized versions of its Tableau Desktop product in French and German as well as support for mobile business intelligence on the iPad. This year it will expand to Asia Pacific and Latin America.
About Tableau
Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Ranked by Gartner in 2011 as the worlds fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau helps anyone quickly and easily analyze, visualize and share information. More than 7,000 companies get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial.
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 17, 2012
One Network Enterprises, the leading provider of community-based supply chain solutions in the cloud, today announced plans for a strategic alliance with Arrow Electronics, Inc., a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. This alliance will use the companies complementary strengths and expertise to provide manufacturing organizations with a comprehensive set of supply chain management tools and services to help improve services levels and lower costs.
One Network is uniquely positioned to help Arrow Electronics and its customers. In the high-tech manufacturing and electronic components distribution industry, supply chains are communities of trading partners that require alignment of demand and supply information in real time. Unlike traditional approaches, One Network was architected as multiparty, multi-echelon network solution that integrates with existing ERP systems to provide an integrated planning and execution solution across all tiers of the value chain. This includes the end customer through distribution channels, OEMs, contract manufacturers, EMS providers, and multiple tiers of component and raw material suppliers and their carriers. In the end, this community approach allows all participants in the value chain to lower costs while maintaining high service levels.
Arrow Electronics is a recognized leader in managing best-in-class, globally complex supply chains and logistics operations. Combining this expertise with Arrow Electronics comprehensive reverse logistics portfolio provides expansive services offerings. These services address common challenges faced by manufacturers in the high-tech industry across all stages of a products life. Customers typically benefit from improved efficiency, flexibility, scalability, and reliability while helping to reduce risk and total costs.
One Network has been successfully powering Arrow Electronics auto-replenishment service, Arrow CARES, since 2007. The system currently manages inventory replenishment for hundreds of OEMs, EMS providers and suppliers, making it one of the largest inbound high-tech networks in the world. We are excited to take our longstanding relationship with Arrow Electronics to the next level, said Greg Brady, founder and CEO, One Network Enterprises. This alliance is the perfect union of the best-in-class supply chain management service provider with the best-in-class IT solutions provider, thus, providing Arrows customers with a full suite of tools and services to improve their supply chain operations.
By partnering with One Network, Arrow Electronics can provide its customers with One Networks broad set of supply chain technology solutions including Demand Planning and Management, Supply Planning & Collaboration, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Transportation Management and Business Intelligence. We have formed a strategic alliance with One Network because of its revolutionary technology and solutions that can be quickly deployed and help our customers reap the benefits of an integrated supply chain in a short period of time, said Jim Rosenberg, vice president of strategic sales for Arrow Electronics. By minimizing the time it takes to integrate a network of customers, carriers and suppliers, a company can increase its customer service levels (fill rates) while increasing revenues at lower costs.
About One Network Enterprises
One Network is the worlds only multi-party, multi-echelon supply chain solution in the cloud. As the leading provider of demand driven supply chain technology solutions, One Networks cloud-based platform enables customers to easily collaborate with all their value chain participants on a single network. With more than 10,000 companies connected, One Networks community based supply chain solutions help customers increase profitability and efficiencies by optimizing their supply chain operations. One Network serves a variety of industries including high tech, retail, consumer products, public sector, automotive, energy, and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, One Network also has offices in Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.onenetwork.com.
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The Perfect Storm is Forming for Sales and Operations Planning
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Steelwedge Appoints Mark Tisdel as CFO
PLEASANTON, CA, Apr 17, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Steelwedge, the leader in cloud-based sales and operations planning (S&OP) solutions, announced that Mark Tisdel has joined Steelwedge as the company's Chief Financial Officer.
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 27, 2012
One Network Enterprises (ONE), a leading provider of demand driven supply chain solutions in the cloud, is introducing the markets first multi-party Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Financial Planning and Executive Analytics solution.
Organizations having implemented S&OP today continue to struggle with the limitations or traditional software applications and business processes that do not effectively plan sales and operations across organizations within the enterprise and across their trading partners. To overcome these challenges, ONE is delivering a state-of-the-art demand-driven sales and operations planning (DDS&OP) solution, that aligns goals across the multi-party, multi-echelon value network to help organizations and their trading partners improve their financial plans, revenues, reduce operational costs, and effectively meet their customers needs.
ONEs demand-driven S&OP links S&OP plans to your multi-year strategic initiatives to account for the attainment of desired goals. Furthermore, it uses a single sales forecast at the forward most echelon to derive sales and marketing, distribution, production, procurement and financial plans. The single sales forecast can be shaped jointly with your partners providing a single version of the truth (SVOT) within the enterprise and across trading partners. Once the demand has been shaped and agreed upon the system generates order forecasts for each organization and each node in the multi-party, multi-echelon value network, including multi-tier raw material providers. Based on these orders forecasts, the system calculates distribution, transportation, production, and procurement plans, matches demand and supply, computes and bi-directionally propagates all capacity constraints, and synchronizes the plans for the entire network. ONEs real-time incremental planning and execution capability seamlessly puts the plans in action generating detailed, actionable short-term plans to the execution systems.
Most importantly, ONEs demand-driven S&OP delivers a Directional P&L that analyses profitability based on the revenue plans and operations plans for organization to fully understand the effect of their plans. The objective function of DDS&OP is to maximize the revenue and profit subject to the actionable operations plans for all parties in the value network.
“S&OP inherently is a multi-party, multi-echelon activity. Traditional systems can take months to compute and propagate plans across the value chain. One Networks DD S&OP solution does it in a matter of hours or days engaging seamlessly with all internal and external operations. One Network has proven repeatedly that increased business agility is the key to achieving impressive results,” said Greg Brady, One Networks CEO.
Gaining deeper insights and becoming demand-driven through ONEs DDS&OP enhances an organizations ability to effectively manage the complexities of the modern supply chain, offering a superior alternative to traditional systems.
To schedule a demonstration, call us today at (866) 302-1936 or visit us at http://www.OneNetwork.com.
About One Network Enterprises
One Network is the worlds only multi-party, multi-echelon supply chain solution in the cloud. As the leading provider of demand driven supply chain technology solutions, One Networks cloud-based platform enables customers to easily collaborate with all their value chain participants on a single network. With more than 7,000 companies connected, One Networks community based supply chain solutions help customers increase profitability and efficiencies by optimizing their supply chain operations. One Network serves a variety of industries including high tech, retail, consumer products, public sector, automotive, energy, and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, One Network also has offices in Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.onenetwork.com.
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New London, NH (PRWEB) February 24, 2012
Oliver Wight Americas, Inc. has released its newest white paper, How to Leverage Longer Planning Horizons in Sales and Operations Planning / Integrated Business Planning.
George Palmatier and Colleen Crum, Oliver Wight principals with decades of practitioner experience, share their insights into improving Sales and Operations (S&OP) Planning and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) by applying a rolling planning horizon of 24 months or longer.
The authors contrast S&OP backward-looking reporting and analysis with the dynamic advantages of IBP, which applies decision-supporting orientation based on future-focused scenario planning. Palmatier and Crum provide an executive overview of IBP and then outline why moving to a longer planning horizon is a natural step when transitioning from S&OP to IBP.
The paper explains how implementing longer planning horizons with IBP more effectively integrates operational and financial management. Palmatier and Crum detail why longer planning horizons with IBP provide greater visibility and early identification of gaps between the annual bottom-up plan and top-down strategic goals. This vital data empowers the leadership team to take timely action to close the gaps and more easily adapt within a volatile global economy.
About Oliver Wight
Oliver Wight Americas – thought leaders and hands-on practitioners for over 40 years. As a global business management consulting and education firm, the company specializes in helping organizations work smarter, faster, and better than their competitors. Its principals are seasoned professionals who have real-world manufacturing experience and transfer this knowledge throughout an organization, providing tools to help organizations internalize that knowledge and achieve a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The largest world-wide consultancy of its type, Oliver Wight has offices throughout Europe, North and South America, and the Asia/Pacific Region. For more information, please visit http://www.OliverWight-Americas.com.
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