Apriso and Neoris Partnership Delivers Results in Latin America.LONG BEACH, Calif. & MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- Apriso and Neoris have signed a partnership agreement appointing Neoris as Apriso's FlexNet application implementation partner in Mexico and throughout Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Neoris will offer Apriso's FlexNet as the first commercial off-the-shelf software commercial off-the-shelf software - commercial software (COTS) solution in their portfolio of Supply Chain Operations solutions. FlexNet combines the essential aspects of advanced warehouse systems with the critical functions of advanced manufacturing systems, so manufacturers can synchronize material flows with their production schedules. The agreement also selects Neoris as a premier Apriso Implementation & Services Partner, which will be engaged in FlexNet implementation projects throughout the region. The partnership has already produced results in the form of several clients in Latin America, one of which is AMCOR, one of the world's top global packaging companies, with $11 billion in revenue and 30,000 employees. As the result of an acquisition, AMCOR was challenged with integrating disparate ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and legacy systems and resources. The solution deployed by Neoris and Apriso unites multiple ERP systems, allows AMCOR to share internal resources between the U.S. and Canada and provides inventory management functionality even when the ERP systems were unavailable. This improves data accuracy, response time to customer changes and provides real-time inventory visibility reporting. Neoris, founded in 2000, is Latin America's 4th largest IT consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , and is comprised of more than 1,000 professionals. As one of the largest SAP Implementation Partner in the region, Neoris clearly understands the unique value Apriso brings to its existing customer base of more than 50 Fortune 500 companies. "Apriso's partnership delivers on our strategy to leverage cutting-edge emergent technologies, and allows us to offer our clients solutions that provide tangible results. Apriso's FlexNet is the first software application that offers a rapidly-deployed and turnkey mean for instituting crucial strategic business initiatives such as RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. deployment for tracking of assets, a key focus of our emergent technology consulting practice," said Claudio Muruzabal, Neoris' Chief Executive Officer. "Neoris expands Apriso's partner network throughout all of the key markets in Latin America," commented Carl Hunt, Apriso's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Neoris complements Apriso's direct operations in Mexico and Brazil with a consulting organization that has extensive expertise in Manufacturing and Supply Chain operations that can support our customers' initiatives for lean, six sigma and operational excellence." According to Jonathan Sroka's article in The AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Research Alert titled, Coming to America: Neoris Rides Message of Service After Solution, July 11, 2002, "What makes Neoris' story most compelling is a consulting service model that stretches from design, to implementation, to after-project completion. Sticking around to ensure value realization and Return on Investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ) is a message that rings loud and clear for executives seeking alternative consulting solutions for complex and inter-enterprise business problems." The strategic alliance with Neoris in Mexico and the Latin American markets extends Apriso's international network of FlexNet implementation partnerships. About Neoris Neoris is the 4th largest IT consulting firm and 5th largest custom application development firm in Latin America, according to IDC. In addition to Latin America, Neoris has a strong presence in the US and Europe, offering systems integration, custom application development, IT consulting and software deployment. As a digital enabler, Neoris transforms the way companies conduct business by using digital technologies to capture profits. Clients include Lockheed Martin, GlaxoSmithKline, OfficeMax, Pemex, Cisco, Petrozuata, Luchetti and Verizon. Neoris is a privately owned company headquartered in Miami, Fla. with over 1,000 employees in the US, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit www.neoris.com. About Apriso Apriso is the pioneer of a new class of enterprise software that for the first time enables global corporations to define, operate, and monitor supply, production and distribution processes in real time, without limits. Using an event-driven, distributed services model, Apriso's software provides such fine-grained visibility and control of both execution processes and key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. that it is an ideal platform for accomplishing the most pressing business initiatives of today: compliance, product genealogy, in-line production sequencing, real-time, RFID-based asset management, lean supply, successive refinement (kaizen This article is about a continual improvement philosophy. For Kaizen ($K), a fantasy currency invented by Kaizen Games, see Priston Tale. “Red tag” redirects here. For designation of damaged structures, see Red-tagged structure. ), six-sigma quality levels, demand-driven supply (the "Dell" model), and the adaptive enterprise. Apriso's software, known as FlexNet(R), integrates quickly, easily and naturally into an enterprise's existing software infrastructure, and effectively extends the scope of systems such as enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP) into the furthest reaches of the extended production and supply network, as required. But unlike existing systems, which are based upon a top-down, plan-driven operations orientation, Apriso's event-driven, process-based architecture accommodates any operational model that is based upon real-time collaboration between execution processes, real-time visibility into performance, or the requirement to define, refine, or immediately control workflows throughout the enterprise, and across borders. Apriso was founded in 1992 and now operates in nine countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. World headquarters are in Long Beach, Calif. Apriso's rapidly-growing customer base of more than 140 customers and over 350 installations worldwide includes such high-profile, global companies as General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, Merck, Lockheed Martin, ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) , Baker Hughes, International Paper, Rubbermaid, Matsushita Avionics Systems, Saint-Gobain, Pechiney, and British American Tobacco British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS, AMEX: BTI, KLSE: BAT) is the second largest listed tobacco company in the world. It is based in London, England and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index with a market capitalisation of over £29 billion as of June 2005. . In addition, Apriso has partnered with leading technology companies, such as Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Oracle, and SAP. The company has received a total of $23.6 million in two rounds of venture funding. Investors include Wall Street Technology Partners LP, CMEA CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance CMEA Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm CMEA Canadian Music Educators' Association CMEA Council for Mutual Economic Aid CMEA Certified Machinery Equipment Appraiser CMEA Colorado Music Education Association Ventures, LogiSpring Investment Fund, SAP Ventures, and Brentwood Venture Capital. Editors' Note: All trademarks and registered trademarks are those of their respective companies. |
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