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News Release from: ILOG | Subject: Extension Solution for manufacturing customers
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 31 October 2003
Tailored IT software provides
competitive edge
Tailored software provides manufacturers with the opportunity to cost-effectively tailor their installed off-the-shelf software applications to address the unique requirements of their business.
Recognising the rapidly-growing customer demand for tailored software solutions that leverage existing technology investments, ILOG has announced its Extension Solution for manufacturing customers, ILOG's Real Time Optimisation (RTO) Extension Solution and Practice ILOG's RTO Extension Solution provides manufacturers with the opportunity to cost-effectively tailor their installed off-the-shelf software applications to address the unique requirements of their business
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 12 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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By combining ILOG's award-winning business rule management systems (BRMS), optimisation and visualisation product suites with ILOG Professional Services to deploy industry-specific best practices, ILOG's Extension Solutions provide an alternative to expensive customisation projects or complicated best-of-breed implementations.
The tailored solution helps businesses respond more quickly to customer needs, improve decision-making speed and ability, and accelerate returns on their existing technology investments.
"For years, companies have tolerated a gap between the functionality provided by standard software packages and what they needed to achieve a true competitive edge," said ILOG Chairman and CEO Pierre Haren.
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"Today's announcement solidifies our position as the software vendor that can help our customers quickly and cost-effectively tailor their existing software systems and infrastructures to meet the exact needs of their business." ILOG's Real Time Optimisation (RTO) Extension Solution and Practice extends the functionality of supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, with an initial emphasis on transportation planning and real-time scheduling.
ILOG's RTO Extension Solution combines ILOG optimisation software, ILOG business rule management system, domain expertise, and a new professional services practice that provides: * Project Assessment - Specialised ILOG consultants, leveraging more than 400 worldwide project implementations for diverse markets and industries, work directly onsite to evaluate customers' unique business processes and IT architecture, and propose a tailored solution based on ILOG best-practices.
* Decision Engine-Centric Extension Frameworks - ILOG's industry and solution-specific decision engine frameworks utilise the real-time change management and software control features of ILOG BRMS and the real-time decision support of ILOG optimisation software to enable solutions that are customised to unique manufacturing and supply chain planning processes.
* Domain Expertise - Leveraging ILOG's extensive supply chain planning and manufacturing domain expertise and the company's technology partnerships with industry leaders like SAP, Oracle and i2, ILOG consultants help customers build targeted solutions tailored to how each customer utilises its existing ERP or SCM application.
* "Supply Chain Tune-Ups" - ILOG provides ongoing support through a dedicated consultancy designed to continue meeting customer needs as they change in response to dynamic business conditions.
Industrial gas pioneer MG Industries deployed ILOG's Real Time Optimisation Extension - a combination of ILOG optimisation technology together with ILOG professional services - to extend the functionality of mySAP(tm) Supply Chain Management.
The result was a tailored solution that met MG Industries specialised needs, enabling the company to better meet customer needs by simultaneously optimising both production and transportation planning.
"ILOG's sophisticated technology, professional services support and strategic partnership with SAP allowed us to build and deploy a complex vehicle-routing optimisation extension which has directly increased the value we are able to deliver to our customers," said Matthew Brown, vice president SCM, MG Industries.
"And by leveraging our existing technology investments, MG Industries has been able to provide the highest customer service at the lowest landed cost." The MGI/ILOG/SAP partnership was recognised this month as the recipient of the 2003 Corporate Award of Excellence in the Technology Partnership category at the 2003 APICS International Conference and Exhibition.
The award, sponsored by APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society), recognised one of the first successful deployments of ILOG's Extension Solutions.
About ILOG - for more than 10 years, ILOG's innovative enterprise-class software components and services have helped companies maximise their business agility and improve operating efficiency.
Over 1000 global corporations and more than 300 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's business rules, optimisation and visualisation technologies to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge.
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