Carter Holt Harvey Taps Adexa to Reach New Heights in Inventory Reduction and Increased Customer Service Levels; Australasia's Leading Wood Panels Company Plans to Lower Delivered Costs by Over $1.3 Million.LOS ANGELES -- Adexa, Inc., the leading provider of integrated supply chain planning and performance management solutions, today announced that Carter Holt Harvey Carter Holt Harvey is an Australasian forest products company, with significant interests in wood products, pulp, paper and packaging. The company employs approximately 10,500 people across Australasia. Panels, Australasia's leading wood panels company, is using the company's supply chain management solutions to provide advanced planning and optimization capability, decrease overall inventory and improve customer service levels. "The great results already seen provide the confidence that Adexa is the right supply chain software partner for our planning needs," said Owen Aubrey, Executive Leader, CHH CHH Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia CHH Crustacean Hyperglycemic Hormone CHH Carter Holt Harvey Limited (Australia & New Zealand) CHH Chuan Hup Holdings Limited (Singapore) CHH Certified Hardware Hosineer Supply Chain. "Adexa successfully configured their solution to take account of the intricacies in our business model and help us deliver cost and cycle time savings within the Panels business." Prior to partnering with Adexa, Carter Holt Harvey Panels (CHHP CHHP College of Health and Human Performance ) was looking to expand its 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. capability to include advanced planning capabilities that directly benefited customer service levels. Adexa's solutions have allowed tighter management of customer-requested delivery dates and inventory levels, ultimately providing a lower delivered cost for customers. By introducing advanced finite planning processes, the solution has also supported the company's focus on plant productivity. Early figures show CHHP has achieved a 5 percent decrease in finished goods and WIP WIP Work In Progress WIP Work in Process WIP World Internet Project WIP Women in Prison (movie genre) WIP World Institute of Pain WIP Wash-In-Place WIP Women in Publishing WIP Work In Place WIP Wireless Internet Protocol inventories in addition to a 5 percent increase in on-time delivery performance. "We are pleased with the results already experienced by CHHP and look forward to watching the numbers strengthen even more," said Cyrus Hadavi, chief executive officer for Adexa. "Adexa's solutions will enable CHHP to further its industry-leading position by increasing the company's ability to better plan its overall operations." Since the initial implementation less than 12 months ago, CHHP's redundant inventory levels have fallen almost 4 percent due to better planning and production optimization. Customer service levels also continue to steadily increase and have reached over 97 percent. CHHP has plans to implement Adexa's solutions in seven locations across Australia and is considering its application in New Zealand next year. About Adexa Founded in 1994, Adexa delivers solutions that synchronize corporate planning with supply chain and operations planning to ensure enterprise assets are utilized to achieve financial objectives. Adexa proves the return on investment in its solutions, before they are implemented, with operational and financial metrics. 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. , Boeing, 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, Sharp Microelectronics, 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 please visit www.adexa.com. About Carter Holt Harvey Panels Carter Holt Harvey Panels is a leading manufacturer of wood panel products including medium density fibreboard fibreboard Noun a building material made of compressed wood Noun 1. fibreboard - wallboard composed of wood chips or shavings bonded together with resin and compressed into rigid sheets fiberboard, particle board , particleboard and particleboard flooring. A significant exporter, the business has world-class operations in Australia, New Zealand and China. Carter Holt Harvey is Australasia's leading forest products company, with approximately 10,500 employees and significant interests in wood products, pulp, paper and packaging, supported by forests. For more information please visit www.chh.com. |
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