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What are trade publications saying about SmartOps’ enterprise-class inventory optimization software? Find out here.
- October 2009— "Enterprise Software In The Annus Horribilis." Chemical and Engineering News. Decades of big investment in information technology are paying off in the chemical industry’s response to the recession.
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- October 2008— “High Fuel Costs Push Efficiency Efforts to Top of Supply Chain Agendas.”Supply Chain Brain. Rapid increases in the price of diesel fuel have decimated transportation budgets and forced companies to look for strategic and tactical steps to become more fuel efficient.
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- August 2008— “Collaboration is Connecting Plants Inside & Outside.” Automation World. The electronics manufacturing giant, Celestica Inc., of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has instituted a wide range of collaboration activities to communicate across its 45 plants in Asia, Eastern Europe, Mexico and Canada.
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- Q4 2007— “Running Inventory Like a Deere.” CSCMP’s Supply Chain Quarterly.
Find out how, by restructuring the supply chain for one of its divisions, John Deere cut inventory and reduced freight costs to better manage assets and enhance shareholder value.
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- September 1, 2007— “Reality Trumps Perfection.” Manufacturing Business Technology. Learn how inventory optimization tools and alerts assisted multi-plant planning scenarios, including how SmartOps’ multiechelon inventory organization solution helped ConAgra improve inventory planning in a SAP environment.
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- June 2007— “Moving beyond Multi-stage Inventory Optimization.” Supply & Demand Chain. Taking an enterprise-wide approach can turn inventory optimization into a key asset and a competitive advantage.
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- April 2007— “SAP applications ecosystem spawns new capabilities, performance opportunities.” Manufacturing Business Technology. When discussion steers toward concepts such as partner ecosystems and integration middleware, the business imperatives behind the concepts can get lost pretty easily. But not for Tom Alloway and other managers at NOVA Chemicals.
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- March 2007— “The Meaning of Lean: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Box.” DC Velocity. Adopting lean principles on the plant floor is a great start. But learn how companies such as SmartOps’ customer Caterpillar are looking beyond the plant floor to distribution and logistics for a greater payoff.
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- January 2007— “Jabil chooses SmartOps' inventory planner.” EE Times Supply Network. Aiming to reduce the amount of cash tied up in inventory, EMS provider Jabil Circuit Inc. has licensed the Multistage Inventory Planning & Optimization tool from SmartOps Corp.
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- May 2006— “Partners, Customers and SAP Unite to Co-Innovate For the Public Sector and Consumer Products, High-Tech and Retail Industries.” SAP. The solutions developed through these IVNs will leverage the SAP NetWeaver® platform to create end-to-end business solutions while avoiding costly integration projects between software from partners and SAP solutions through the usage of enterprise services.
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- May 2006— “IBM and SmartOps Partner to Create Comprehensive Inventory Optimization Capability” Aberdeen Group. IBM and SmartOps are partnering to bring a more comprehensive suite of inventory optimization capabilities to a wider set of companies. By combining efforts, they are shaking up the inventory optimization market, which has been characterized by point best-of-breed players with limited market reach.
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- October 2005— “Optimization solutions manage inventory” Modern Materials Handling. In 2001, when John Deere wanted to optimize the inventory of lawnmowers and tractors stored in its warehouses and at its network of 2,500 dealers, it did not turn to a traditional supply chain planning solution.
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- July 2005— “SmartOps Teams with IBM to Offer On-Demand Inventory Optimization” Aberdeen Group.IBM and SmartOps have teamed up to offer an on-demand service for inventory optimization. This service provides quick-time-to-value for companies with complex supply chains that wish to reduce their inventory investment while improving customer service levels.
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- July 2005— “Deere Harvests $1bn in Inventory Savings with SmartOps MIPO” Supply Chain Brain. For Deere & Company, the $15.5bn global manufacturer best known for its agricultural and construction equipment, one of its fasting grwoing lines of business is its $3bn Commercial & Consumer Equipment (C&CE) division
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- July 2005— “How to Build a Supply Chain for All Seasons” Supply Chain Brain. Companies use smart logistics strategies and the latest in technology to help predict and meet seasonal demand, but getting it right is still an art.
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- April 2005— “An Irresistable supply-chain story” InfoWorld. Want to hear what could be one of the best supply-chain success stories ever? Take the $4 billion commercial and consumer equipment division of a $20 billion company, reduce inventory by $500 million, and as sales grow, keep inventory constant -- thus avoiding an additional $500 million in inventory. This is what John Deere did starting in 2002, with the help of supply-chain optimization software vendor SmartOps.
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