Descartes Licenses Energy Supply Chain Suite To Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc.WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 1998-- Transaction Worth in Excess of $2.2 Million The Descartes Systems Group Inc., a leading provider of supply chain execution software for delivery sensitive organizations, today announced that Dr Pepper/Seven Up Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Incorporated was a Plano-based soft-drink manufacturing company created by the merger of Dr Pepper, Incorporated and The Seven Up Company on May 19, 1986. , Inc. has selected Descartes' Energy(tm) supply chain execution suite for its Fountain and Foodservice Division. The contract for software and services is worth in excess of $2.2 million. Dr Pepper/Seven Up's Fountain and Foodservice Division sells beverage concentrate to beverage distributors and bottlers throughout the U.S. Under the agreement, Descartes' Energy v.6 suite will be implemented in the division's worldwide headquarters located in Plano, Texas Plano (IPA: /ˈpleɪnoʊ/) is a wealthy suburb of Dallas, Texas, located to the north, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. According to the 2000 U.S. , where it will be integrated with the company's new 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 (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. ) solution, SAP R/3. "We needed a system that could accommodate the complexities of order and sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a that are inherent to the beverage industry," said Art Fino, senior vice president, information technology, Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. "Additionally, we wanted a solution that could be implemented as an integrated extension to our ERP system. Descartes' Energy Suite offered the business functionality and the systems architecture that we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ." Dr Pepper/Seven Up has licensed all of the Energy supply chain execution suite components including order processing and fulfillment; customer service management; pricing and promotions management; distributed inventory management; shipment optimization and load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them ; delivery reconciliation; and electronic commerce. "We're extremely pleased that Dr Pepper/Seven Up has chosen Energy as its supply chain execution solution," said Peter Schwartz, 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. of Descartes. "Our partnership with Dr Pepper will leverage our industry expertise and our advanced supply chain architecture." About Descartes The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (http://www.descartes.com) is a leading provider of supply chain execution software. With more than 1,000 customers in 45 countries worldwide, Descartes' solutions are particularly well suited to delivery-sensitive organizations. These companies are forced to respond to changes in demand, often day-to-day or even minute-to-minute, along with the complexities of short product shelf life, price and promotions volatility, high order volumes, and real-time vehicle routing. Descartes addresses these needs by providing a functionally rich suite of applications based on a three-tier, object-oriented foundation that supports heterogeneous platforms and industry standards. Descartes' Energy suite allows world-class integration of processes throughout the supply chain while exploiting the robust benefits of mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings solutions. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All amounts are in Canadian dollars Noun 1. Canadian dollar - the basic unit of money in Canada; "the Canadian dollar has the image of loon on one side of the coin" loonie dollar - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents unless otherwise indicated.
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