Silvon Software Recognized as Key Technology Partner in Texas A&M University's Industrial Distribution Program.Business Editors WESTMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2003 Supply Chain-Focused Performance Management Solutions Provider Joins Texas A&M in Grand Opening of Supply Chain Systems Laboratory Silvon Software, a global provider of Enterprise Performance Management (EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. ) software applications, will join students, other supply chain solution providers, media representatives and academic leaders of Texas A&M University (TAMU TAMU Texas A&M University TAMU Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University TAMU Tyler Area Macintosh Users (Tyler, Texas) TAMU Tropical Aviation Meteorological Unit ) at today's grand opening of TAMU's Supply Chain Systems Laboratory (SCSL SCSL Sun Community Source Licensing (Sun) SCSL Scientific Computing Software Library (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) SCSL Satyam Computer Services Limited (Secunderabad, India) ). The SCSL is an industrial distribution initiative supported by Silvon and other hardware and software solution providers through contributions of supply chain-focused solutions and services for research and educational purposes. Silvon worked together with 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) Corporation to deliver an eServer iSeries platform and supply chain performance management software solution to the SCSL. Al Zollar, General Manager of IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. iSeries division, also will be on hand at the grand opening of the laboratory. "Silvon is honored to play a role in this important and well conceived program for Supply Chain research and education," said John Hughes
"We have ambitious plans for the lab not only to educate our students, but to become a leading research center that will collaborate with other universities and deliver knowledge to their students as well," said Dr. F. Barry Lawrence Barry K. Lawrence is a former Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League. He played for St Kilda. Although he played as a forward in Tasmania, he played most of his early career with the Saints as a defender. , Director of the Supply Chain Systems Laboratory. "Thanks to technology partners like Silvon, the lab is a living class environment for teaching undergraduates in the Industrial Distribution program, business executives in the Industrial Distribution program's professional development group, and students in the Masters of Industrial Distribution program each year. It represents another giant step in ensuring that our students continue to receive a relevant, cutting edge industrial distribution education, and that our industry partners reap the benefits of a highly motivated faculty who are at work solving current and significant real world problems." In addition to Silvon, other technology partners involved with the Texas A&M Supply Chain Systems Laboratory include IBM Corporation, J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. , Siemens, Prelude Systems, Intuit Eclipse, Dimasys, E-bots and Selltis. About Silvon Software, Inc. - http://www.silvon.com Silvon Software is a global supply chain-focused enterprise performance management solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois Westmont is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 24,554 at the 2000 census. History Westmont was developed largely because of the Great Chicago Fire. . Since 1987, Silvon has focused on software-based analytic application solutions for manufacturing, wholesale distribution and retail organizations. Silvon's solutions are predicated on the fact that a better business understanding will empower the move toward an optimized supply chain. Silvon's clients benefit from improving business practices and profitability by leveraging analytic information on products, customers, suppliers, and operational performance. The Silvon Stratum product suite offers robust analytic applications Analytic Applications are a type of business application software, used to measure and improve the performance of business operations. More specifically, Analytic Applications are a type of Business Intelligence solution. , as well as planning, forecasting, closed-loop processing and exception management functionality. The company's products are currently installed at more than 1,500 businesses worldwide. About the Texas A&M Supply Chain Systems Laboratory - http://etidweb.tamu.edu/lawrence The Supply Chain Systems Laboratory (SCSL) is a Texas A&M Industrial Distribution Program initiative to educate students, create cutting edge information solutions for industrial channels, and provide answers to issues related to Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) and information sharing See data conferencing. . The SCSL brings together members of vertical channels and IT systems providers to test, demonstrate, and create new methods for members of industrial channels to participate in SCM and e-Business. The diversity of channels provides a wide range of domains for testing solutions and enriching undergraduate and graduate education. This laboratory will be one of a kind in the United States -- in education, research, and professional development. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion