Cara Selects SynQuest Supply Chain Management Software for 11-Site Contract; Software Will Optimize Cara's Production of In-Flight Airline Meals.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1999--SynQuest Inc. today announced Cara Airport Services, a division of Cara Operations Cara Operations Limited is a Canadian company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant and coffee shop chains including: Harvey's, Swiss Chalet, Kelsey's , Milestones and Montana's. The company is based across from Lester B. Limited, has selected SynQuest supply chain management software for optimization of production activities and resources. Cara Airport Services will use SynQuest for financial optimization, dynamic planning “Dynamic Planning” redirects here. For the AI technique, see Dynamic planning. Dynamic Planning Inc. (ダイナミック企画株式会社) is a Licensing company and anime studio owned by manga artist and collaborative execution of airline meal production in its 11 flight kitchens across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. . Cara, which provides in-flight meals and ancillary services to more than 50 airlines, including Air Canada, American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the and British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. , will use SynQuest software to create production schedules that will provide the freshest possible meals at the most economical production costs. With more than 500,000 changes to orders per day, the maker of airline meals will use SynQuest software's real-time execution capability to track changing meal counts and configurations for all flights, up to five minutes before the aircraft is ready to depart. Cara anticipates significant improvements in operating efficiencies and customer satisfaction. "We are committed to providing our customers with the right number of high-quality, fresh meals, on time on every flight," said Fred Cress, senior vice president of Cara Airport Services. "SynQuest software will help us financially optimize production by giving us the information we need to determine the financial impact of various supply chain planning scenarios. For example, if lemon pepper chicken is on one line, SynQuest will provide a plan that recommends the right number of lemon pepper chicken meals on that line, taking into account all the appropriate financial and customer service variables." According to Chris Jones, SynQuest senior vice president of marketing and corporate development, "By combining supply chain planning with collaborative execution, SynQuest software will provide Cara with an end-to-end solution that provides real-time visibility into customer needs and supplier production, plus the ability to handle the volume of instant changes. It also will automatically provide real-time meal- consumed data to J.D. Edwards OneWorld(tm) software, allowing a further analysis of operational and financial performance." SynQuest supply chain software will provide this information to OneWorld through the industry's first event-based standard integration of 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 APS applications. The integration also will allow Cara to import orders directly from OneWorld into SynQuest software, where SynQuest can then optimize these orders based on combinations of weighted business criteria, such as minimizing cost or maximizing throughput, revenue or on-time delivery. As business conditions change, Cara will use SynQuest to dynamically re-plan, immediately resolving problems and seizing opportunities for performance improvements. This will allow Cara to take the guesswork out of which job to run next for the freshest possible meals, just in time to meet on-time departures. About Cara Operations Limited Cara Operations Limited, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is one of Canada's leading food service companies with 1998 system sales, including franchisee sales, of $1.2 billion (Cdn.). Cara's core businesses operate within two Groups: The Cara Restaurant Group and the Food Services food services Hospital services A 24/7 department in a hospital that provides for the nutritional needs of inpatients–eg, those needing special diets, preparing meals and transporting them to the floor and, through the cafeteria, the hospital staff and Group. The Cara Restaurant Group includes the Swiss Chalet family-style restaurants; Harvey's quick-service restaurants; and the Cara Air Terminal Restaurant Division, which operates food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. service units at major Canadian air terminals. The Cara Food Services Group includes the Airport Services Division, which provides catering to airlines across Canada, as well as operating retail gift stores and newstands at transportation terminals and tourist attractions; Beaver Foods Limited, the largest Canadian-owned contract caterer; the Health Care Division, which operates food services at health care institutions; and Summit Food Service Distributors Inc., a full-line foodservice wholesale distribution company. For further information contact Cara Operations Limited - 6303 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4V 1R8, attention Fred Cress 905 / 405-6555. Editors Note: Cara production photo available upon request. About SynQuest SynQuest, Inc. (www.synquest.com), a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga. with offices worldwide. The SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series(tm) combines planning and execution at all levels of the supply chain. The software enables companies to optimize financial performance while meeting customer expectations and achieving competitive differentiation. Computerworld named SynQuest to its list of "100 Hot Emerging Companies." SynQuest also won the Managing Automation "Reader's Choice Award" in two areas for best "Supply Chain Management/APS" and "MES (Manufacturing Execution Software) Software that provides real time access to plant activities that include equipment, labor, orders and inventory. An MES integrates the data with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems so that management has complete control of " products. SynQuest products operate on HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT servers and networked PC clients with Microsoft Windows 95 and NT. For more information, call (800) 844-3228. SynQuest Supply Chain Performance Series is a trademark of SynQuest Inc., Atlanta, Ga. All other trademarks are properties of their respective companies. |
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