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For Immediate Release
OPD Solutions to Launch Software Certification Program
Houston – January 24, 2005 - OPD Solutions, a leading international consulting group specializing in supply chain management, today announced the launch of OPD TOM® CertificationPro™, a formal software solutions certification program. This program certifies software solutions that are compliant with OPD’s world-class integrated business process model for supply chain planning. The program includes various levels of certification across four supply chain planning-related categories:
Enterprise Supply Chain Planning—provides for an end-to-end integrated solution for the entire supply chain planning process.
Manufacturing Management—focuses on the area of detailed supply/demand alignment, and the generation of enterprise-level execution plans that ultimately increases planner productivity, flexibility, and accuracy.
Supply/Inventory Management—involves all aspects of the supply chain, including current and projected inventories, field inventories such as VMI, supplier collaboration, multi-sourcing and prioritized supply lines.
Order Management—covers the area of booking orders and managing inventory pulls against a prioritized, yet flexible supply plan, on a real-time basis.
“We are excited about the launch of this new program.“ says OPD President Mike Morrissette. “Many organizations desire to implement a best-in-class business supply chain planning process, but are unable to find the best software solution. We will now be able to make recommendations to our clients with a high degree of confidence in the applicability of the software solution.”
About OPD Solutions
OPD Solutions, Inc. (www.opdsolutions.com), founded
in 1990, is an international consulting group specializing in all aspects
of supply chain order, planning and delivery. Their primary offering is
an integrated, end-to-end Total Order Management (TOM®) business process
model and implementation methodology. This unique, proven model enables
reliable customer commitments to be made at first point of customer contact,
and is applicable to any manufacturing industry, including high-tech semiconductor
and computer-related manufacturing, distribution and logistics
TOM® and OPD TOM® CertificationPro™ are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of
OPD Solutions, Inc.
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For Immediate Release
OPD Solutions Certifies APS Software Solution from IBM
Houston - February 10, 2005 - OPD Solutions, a leading international consulting group specializing in supply chain management, today announced the first software solution to be certified under its new TOM® CertificationPro™ program. The IBM Operational Framework for Advanced Supply Chain Planning is now certified at the Gold level within the program. This software suite was originally developed by IBM to facilitate its own internal supply chain transformation, and has been commercially available for the last year.
OPD recently launched the TOM® CertificationPro™ program to certify software solutions that are compliant with its world-class integrated business process model for supply chain planning when jointly implemented. The program includes various levels of certification across four supply chain planning-related categories. The IBM Operational Framework software suite is certified in the category of Enterprise Supply Chain Planning. This category covers the business process areas of:
Resource Management— Balances the worldwide supply line with a rules-driven enterprise-level supply/demand alignment process for the best possible use of all assets.
Demand Management — Profiles products and customers to proactively support service levels and customer priorities while balancing a minimum level of inventory.
Manufacturing Management — Automatically generates worldwide by-site build plans and increases planner productivity, flexibility, and accuracy.
Order Management — Books orders and manages inventory pulls against a prioritized, yet flexible, supply plan on a real-time basis
Seamlessly integrates the end-to-end business processes
“The IBM Operational Framework complements our Total Order Management
(TOM®) business process model because it was developed in conjunction
with the implementation of the TOM® model in the IBM Microelectronics
Division,” says OPD President Mike Morrissette. “This is one
software solution that supports enterprise level supply chain planning
when implemented with the TOM® model. Although it was originally developed
for a semiconductor application, it will work well for any constraints-based
planning process.”
About OPD Solutions
OPD Solutions, Inc. (www.opdsolutions.com), founded
in 1990, is an international consulting group specializing in all aspects
of supply chain order, planning and delivery. Their primary offering is
an integrated, end-to-end Total Order Management (TOM®) business process
model and implementation methodology. This unique, proven model enables
reliable customer commitments to be made at first point of customer contact,
and is applicable to any manufacturing industry, including high-tech semiconductor
and computer-related manufacturing, distribution and logistics
TOM® and OPD TOM® CertificationPro™ are trademarks and/or
registered trademarks of
OPD Solutions, Inc.
IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of International
Business Machines Corporation in the United States, other countries or
both.
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