Adexa Discovers Missing Link; New Business Application Ties Financials to Demand and Operations Planning.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003 Adexa, Inc., a leading provider of integrated supply chain and performance management solutions, today announced the Beta release See beta version. of Collaborative Operations Planning (COP), a new business application in the company's Enterprise Global Planning System See spreadsheet and financial planning system. (eGPS) solution-set. COP dynamically considers all costs required for planning, along with material and capacity constraints, to identify the most profitable plans and schedules to meet demand. "Adexa COP provides the missing Intelligent link between financially driven operations planning and demand planning, within the same system," said Cyrus Hadavi, Adexa's president and chief executive officer. "COP ensures financial targets are considered during every phase of the planning process to drive incrementally higher returns. Quite simply, COP focuses the operations side of a business on results that equate to higher shareholder value." The cost of doing business varies from order to order. Each transaction can have higher or lower material costs, manufacturing costs, subcontracting costs and a litany of other factors that impact its profitability. COP automatically measures the profitability of every step in the manufacturing process to develop an operations plan that is optimized to provide the highest returns. All stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. , both enterprise and extended enterprise (customers, supply chains and contract manufacturers), can gain interoperable connectivity to the plan over the Internet, to see exactly what's expected of them, and to make changes to the plan as circumstances warrant. The impact of change is dynamically propagated throughout the plan and re-optimized for profitability by COP, which is scheduled for general release in January 2004. About Adexa eGPS Adexa's eGPS is a suite of applications designed to shorten and increase the accuracy of planning cycles, reduce production costs and maximize asset utilization within manufacturing enterprises and throughout their supply chains. Its unique amalgamation of strategic and tactical information in a single data model enables stakeholders throughout the extended enterprise to contribute to the development of the most profitable plans with the highest levels of customer service every time. About Adexa Founded in 1994, Adexa delivers solutions that synchronize See synchronization. corporate planning with operations planning and execution, to ensure assets are utilized to achieve strategic objectives. Adexa helps companies reduce the cost of goods sold Cost of goods sold The total cost of buying raw materials, and paying for all the factors that go into producing finished goods. cost of goods sold , shorten lead-times for orders, and reduce inventory costs through improved supply chain collaboration and management. Adexa's global customer base includes AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , AU Optronics Optronics, or optoelectronics in its less abbreviated form, is the science and technology making use of optics and electronics. It is sometimes synonymous with photonics, however the latter has a lesser emphasis on electronics. , Firmenich, Fujitsu, General Motors, Mannington Mills, Maytag, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Philips, Pulse, Samsung, Siemens, TSMC TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd TSMC Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation TSMC Traffic Systems Management Center TSMC Toll Station Management Controller TSMC Transportation Supply Maintenance Command TSMC Technical Services Manager Code and Unilever. For more information visit www.adexa.com. |
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