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SmartOps Increases its Leadership Position in Supply Chain Planning, Optimization, and Analytics

Supply chain executives are turning to SmartOps with increased frequency to manage supply chain complexity and uncertainty. During the past year, SmartOps added global brands such as Dow, PPG, Lubrizol, Baker Hughes, Vaillant, Campbell Soup Company, Medtronic, Kraton, Heinz, and Tate & Lyle to its roster of customers.

As global markets continue to tighten, companies are forced to reexamine their approach to supply chain management. Holding on to expensive inventory, paying higher prices for expedited deliveries, or missing orders altogether are no longer options as companies battle for market share. SmartOps solutions allow companies to dynamically link current and future inventory targets to service level goals and to strike a financially-optimal tradeoff between production changeover and holding costs.

The ability to navigate uncertainty and complexity is at the heart of SmartOps' solution suite. While enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems may manage supply chain processes under perfect conditions, the reality is that exceptions are more the norm when it comes to real world global supply chains. Examples of areas in which SmartOps excels and others fall short include the ability to quantify forecast accuracy and bias, protect against supply variability, optimize product margins, synchronize inventory targets across multiple stages of supply chains, and increase visibility of what drives inventory and service level performance.

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"Companies have recognized that supply chain management is an extremely complex business process with many moving parts. SmartOps simplifies supply chain planning, removes the guesswork from the decision-making process, and helps customers to meet their end goal of establishing a dynamically changing supply chain that will allow them to capture more and bigger sales."

Sridhar Tayur, chief executive officer of SmartOps.

Supporting Forum:

SmartOps customers come together each year at the SmartOps Forum to discuss the challenges of managing global supply chains. During the Forum, SmartOps customers across key vertical industries, including consumer packaged goods, life sciences, chemicals and oil & gas, will participate in informative presentations and panel discussions. They will also have the opportunity to learn about new SmartOps technologies and capabilities that will help them to better optimize supply chain planning and management.

The 2011 SmartOps Forum will take place on September 20-21 at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach, Miami, FL.

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About SmartOps

SmartOps, the market leader in enterprise-class supply chain optimization solutions enables companies to manage the uncertainty of complex, multi-stage supply chains to achieve rapid return on investment and long-term, sustainable value. Deploying SmartOps' solutions has dramatically improved supply chain performance at Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies in discrete manufacturing, consumer durables and packaged goods, technology, pharmaceutical manufacturing, distribution, chemicals and retail industries. Contact SmartOps at 412-231-0115 or visit us at www.smartops.com for more information.

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Jessica Hoover, +1 412-231-0115, ext. 105
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