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ILOG, SAP among recipients of APICS awards

By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 11/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

APICS presented its annual corporate awards of excellence at the close of its conference Oct. 8. Two of the awards focus on management applications.

The innovation award recipient, Systems Plus, developed On-Time Orders (OTTO), which aims at bringing all the order and inventory information together through an approach called reality-based priority management (RPM). The runner-up for the innovation award was Informatica, which designed PowerAnalyzer 4 as an Internet-based and dashboard-driven business intelligence interface with real-time alerts.

APICS also recognized the recipients of the technology partnership award—MG Industries, enterprise suite vendor SAP, and planning vendor ILOG. MG Industries, an industrial gas producer based in Malvern, Pa., sought technology partners that could deliver solutions to complex production and distribution problems. SAP's mySap Supply Chain Management and ILOG's ODF technologies were chosen.

"We gained the ability to optimize production and distribution planning based on customer demand and coordinated to provide sourcing decisions at the lowest cost to the customer," says Matthew Brown of MG Industries. "The software also provided opportunities to better manage electricity cost, and ILOG ODF provided the framework for building a transportation management solution that incorporated the industry-specific requirements demanded by us."

The runner-up for the technology partnership award was Tellabs, a manufacturer of telecommunications equipment based in Naperville, Ill., with its partner Steelwedge. With Steelwedge's enterprise demand-management approach, Tellabs implemented consensus forecasting that cut forecast cycle times and improved operations.

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