Outsourced Logistics

Position is based at a new office in Lyon, France, that expands Trade Tech’s European reach

Trade Tech, a global logistics IT provider and supplier of cloud-based solutions for the transportation industry, announced today the appointment of Sandrine Senelier as implementation project manager for Europe, a position that also includes oversight of current customer engagements, brand management and sales support. Senelier is based at Trade Tech’s new office in Lyon, France, and reports to Elisabeth Corjet, managing director for Europe.

Senelier brings 15 years of experience in the freight forwarding and shipping industry to her new position, having previously worked for AMC Transport, a freight forwarder serving a wide range of industry sectors from its base in Cognac, France.

In 2011 Senelier was named operations director at AMC Transport, with responsibility for customer implementations and service management. Earlier in her career at the company, she was responsible for global operations and sales; she also served as analyst and project manager for the forwarder’s worldwide strategy development team. Senelier holds a Masters Degree from Le Havre University, specializing in International Transport and Logistics Management.

Trade Tech CEO Bryn Heimbeck says the company “is pleased to add Senelier to the growing team at its strategically located office in Lyon. “She is a natural fit for our organization with her experience on the forwarding side at AMC Transport, and we know our European-based customers will benefit from her ability to ensure a quick and smooth implementation of our solutions,” he says. Heimbeck notes that Trade Tech’s is benefitting from the geographic position of its Lyon office, “which is ideally situated at the confluence of trade routes in Europe.”

About Trade Tech:

Trade Tech, a global supplier of Cloud-based solutions for the logistics industry, is owned and operated by industry professionals. It also is an ERP for the freight-forwarding and NVOCC community, licensing and delivering applications in key areas, including:

 Cloud computing Cost optimization / pricing

 Transportation management

 Rate management

 Supply chain / purchase order management and visibility (tracking and tracing)

 Sales / operations

 Accounting

 AMS/ACI and security related to ocean and air transportation, including all Cargo Security Filing requirements, including Smart Border

 10+2 Rule Solution Provider

Founded in 1997, Trade Tech’s applications link shippers, importers, Customs House Brokers, consignees, NVOCCs, carriers, truckers, warehouses and forwarders, providing visibility of the movement of goods throughout the supply chain. Trade Tech clients enjoy access to the latest applications and data anywhere in the world every time they log on to the Trade Tech network – without any software downloads. For more information, please visit: www.tradetech.net.

FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence 2.0 delivers real-time visibility to improve manufacturing and supply chain performance

PALM DESERT, CA – Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced availability of the second version of FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence, MPI 2.0, a next generation solution for enterprise manufacturing intelligence. MPI 2.0 has redefined manufacturing intelligence by not only providing greater detailed visibility into production, machine and labor activity, but has eased the global distribution and synchronization of this intelligence across the manufacturing enterprise. An immediate benefit is real-time comparisons of operation’s execution to plan for improved manufacturing and supply chain performance.

Increasing demand variability, globalization of today’s product supply networks and heightened competition are driving a need for a more integrated, granular view of manufacturing performance. Managers and engineers need faster access to the right facts to accelerate continuous process improvement and enhance supply chain collaboration. More importantly, this manufacturing intelligence must be delivered in real-time – at the right level with the right information – to help management achieve and sustain their business objectives.

“The misalignment between plant-floor performance measures and corporate measures, such as return on capital expenditures; working capital … or more granular measures, such as profitability by stock-keeping unit (SKU), continues to challenge manufacturers. One version of the truth exists on the plant floor, while another is in business intelligence (BI) or ERP applications. The result is a discontinuity between the process of managing the business and the business of managing the production process,” stated Simon Jacobson and Leif Eriksen in “The Manufacturing Performance Dilemma, Part 1: Overcoming Visibility Hurdles With Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence,” published in July 2011 by Gartner [ID: G00214298].

Apriso’s MPI 2.0 addresses this challenge by ensuring a single version of the truth, which is now more readily visible across the plant and enterprise. Faster access to more detailed information, within the right context, helps manufacturers better leverage emergent opportunities, perform continuous improvement and improve agility when responding to demand variability and supply chain disruptions. Specific MPI 2.0 improvements include:

* Expanded Global Capabilities – MPI 2.0 can either be deployed individually, on a plant-by-plant basis, or consistently to multiple locations; managed either on a centralized or decentralized manner; process or data query modifications can be instantly updated to any or all locations; those initially deploying MPI 2.0 to selective plants can later change their mind and update their deployment profile to be consistent across all global locations.

* Greater Ease of Integration – machine, production and labor activity data queries can now be configured and updated faster with Apriso’s Reporting and Analytics Platform (RAP) 2.0; this enhancement pre-configures and “bundles” systems integration logic through an improved user interface and wizard, helping to greatly simplify data query integration to work flow processes; as RAP 2.0 is built on standard Microsoft technology and tools, it is easy to learn and use.

* Improved Visibility to more Granular Data – real-time access to machine level data ( by hour, by employee, by product, etc.) allows new levels of intelligence reporting and analysis that are simply not possible when working with just traditional ERP and BI applications; a combined solution of MPI 2.0 for manufacturing intelligence and BI or ERP for corporate planning offers the best of both worlds, with nearly 300 KPI measures now included, including “order adherence,” which is a comparison to plan that adds business context to the extracted intelligence.

“Another way to understand the importance of faster, more detailed visibility into manufacturing data is to look at your performance variability within and across plants. Real-time visibility delivers insights into bottlenecks, variability and best practices that can then be used to control and improve your manufacturing operations and supply chain performance,” explained James Montgomery, Apriso’s product manager responsible for MPI 2.0.

FlexNet Manufacturing Process Intelligence (MPI) is an integral component of Apriso’s broader FlexNet solution – an adaptive platform for global manufacturing operations management. Built with a native Business Process Management (BPM) framework that incorporates a unified data model, FlexNet applications enable continuous improvement and rapid response to market changes.

About Apriso Corporation

Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain and Essilor. Learn more at: www.apriso.com. Visit our blog at http://www.apriso.com/blog.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Metsä Group is a world-leading producer of tissue and cooking papers, board, pulp, wood products as well as wood supply and forestry services. In 2011, the Group’s sales totaled EUR 5.3 billion with operations in some 30 countries.

Metsä Group’s high-quality products come mainly from renewable Nordic wood and wood fiber. The company has long traditions and strong know-how in all its core business areas and it is active in research and development in order to develop new products and to diversify the use of its current products. Furthermore, the Group tries to find new ways to use its wood raw material more efficiently. In this effort, Metsä Fibre - part of Metsä Group, was considering the implementation of RFID-based system. Through automation, this system would offer more efficient logistics’ processes and better customer service.

Challenge

Metsä Fibre has a capacity of 2,4 million tons of pulp and delivers several different pulp grades and qualities to its customers globally. For Metsä Fibre’s customers, on-time delivery of the correct pulp product is a mission critical activity for continuous production. To ensure uninterrupted production, even in case of shipping errors, Metsä Fibre’s customers have had to keep buffer stock. Hence, a lower amount of shipping errors means a lower buffer stock needed and a more efficient supply chain overall. Metsä Fibre needed to improve the traceability of pulp units throughout the supply chain and reduce shipping errors. By implementing Vilant’s RFID solution, Metsä Fibre wished to not only improve the accuracy of the shipments, but also allow customers to trace material flow on arrival to customer mill sites.

Solution

The RFID system includes passive RFID tags, RFID readers, and RFID software. Each tag has a unique identification number encoded in them. At the Metsä Fibre pulp mills, RFID tags are encoded and automatically applied inside every pulp unit between bales. This equals 1 tag per each ton of pulp produced. The RFID tag contains the pulp unit’s grade name and production lot number. When scanned, the RFID tag discloses information to the reader. Tags may be scanned with forklift readers, gate readers or handheld readers at any point in the logistics chain.

Metsä Fibre uses passive RFID technology. The tags do not contain batteries; they use only the energy from signal of an RFID reader. The tags’ label paper and water-soluble adhesive dissolve in fiber pulping. Additionally, the materials in the RFID tag’s antenna and microchip have no impact on the frequency of deposits, holes or defects in paper and board.

Metsä Fibre’s RFID tags have been developed specifically for identifying pulp. Since the tags are not removed at any time after application, they must fully comply with the dirt count specifications and end-uses of the final products.

Vilant software connects fixed, forklift and handheld RFID readers to Metsä Fibre’s back end system. It offers global control for its RFID based logistics process. An entire shipment of RFID tagged pulp can be identified quickly and easily at close to 100% accuracy. The RFID reading is logged in Metsä Fibre’s database. This information is available through our extensive reporting tools. At ports and terminals, operators can use RFID for tracking shipments and identifying bales correctly.

The system consists of the following software:

- Vilant Engine – an embedded control software inside the reader that enhances the software functionality of off-the shelf RFID readers

- Vilant Device Manager - controls all readers and gives real-time information to Metsä Fibre’s backend system.

After extensive testing during both, the pilot and full production scale implementation, it was confirmed that the RFID tags do not affect the quality of the end product or the ongoing papermaking process.

Today, Vilant has already deployed RFID solution at four Metsä Fibre mills.

Result/benefits

- Effective & reliable way to track pulp units generates significant savings in material flow management

- Enables close to 100% accuracy of identification

- Simplifies stock management & helps to avoid costly errors

- Improves labor efficiency as there is less manual work

- In-time delivery control & real-time shipment visibility

- Improves production planning & customer service.

Top 100 list is compiled annually by editors of Inbound Logistics

BELLEVUE, Washington – Trade Tech, a global logistics IT provider and supplier of cloud-based solutions for the transportation industry, has been recognized by Inbound Logistics magazine as a Top 100 Logistics IT Provider.

The annual Top 100 list is compiled each April by editors of Inbound Logistics to recognize excellence among IT companies that provide logistics solutions and services. Editors used questionnaires, personal interviews and other research to pare down a field of 300 companies to the top 100 that are leading the way in 2012. Key selection criteria included user simplicity, ROI, ease of implementation and the impact of IT solutions on business activities and processes, both internal and external.

“Trade Tech was selected for its consistent ability to deliver innovative solutions that empower logistics and supply chain excellence,” says Felecia Stratton, Inbound Logistics’ editor. “Its solutions work tactically to master supply chain transactions as well as strategically to drive the enterprise to more closely match demand to supply.” Stratton says that the Top 100 Logistics IT Providers “empower expansion into global markets and continue to offer innovative and practical solutions in the face of global economic uncertainty in some regions, and global economic opportunity in other regions.”

Companies on the list, including Trade Tech, “consistently provide the kinds of technology solutions Inbound Logistics readers need to successfully manage their global enterprises, positioning them for global growth as well as enhancing their ability to compete,” Stratton says. “As shippers, carriers, and 3PLs rely more heavily on the latest and most innovative logistics IT solutions, Trade Tech continues to be flexible and responsive, anticipating customers’ evolving needs.”

“We are honored to have made Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 Logistics IT Provider list,” says Bryn Heimbeck, Trade Tech’s CEO. “I believe it is due to our leading the way in cloud computing, which is revolutionizing the way the transportation and logistics industry does business. We have been committed to the concept of a global solution leveraging the Internet from day one. We have been continuously impressed with the economics of this strategy and, in particular, in the way that it allows small and mid-sized players to level the field and compete head on with the large players and their large budgets.”

Heimbeck also notes that this award comes at an important time in the evolution of Trade Tech’s business. “We are celebrating our 15-year anniversary in 2012,” he says.

About Inbound Logistics

Inbound Logistics is the pioneering publication of demand-driven logistics practices, also known as supply chain management. IL’s educational mission is to guide businesses to efficiently manage logistics, reduce and speed inventory, and neutralize transportation cost increases by aligning supply to demand and adjusting enterprise functions to support that paradigm shift. More information about demand-driven logistics practices is available at www.inboundlogistics.com

About Trade Tech:

Trade Tech, a global supplier of Cloud-based solutions for the logistics industry, is owned and operated by industry professionals. It also is an ERP for the freight-forwarding and NVOCC community, licensing and delivering applications in key areas, including:

 Cloud computing

 Cost optimization / pricing

 Transportation management

 Rate management

 Supply chain / purchase order management and visibility (tracking and tracing)

 Sales / operations

 Accounting

 AMS/ACI and security related to ocean and air transportation, including all Cargo Security Filing requirements, including Smart Border

 10+2 Rule Solution Provider

Founded in 1997, Trade Tech’s applications link shippers, importers, Customs House Brokers, consignees, NVOCCs, carriers, truckers, warehouses and forwarders, providing visibility of the movement of goods throughout the supply chain. Trade Tech clients enjoy access to the latest applications and data anywhere in the world every time they log on to the Trade Tech network – without any software downloads. For more information, please visit: www.tradetech.net.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, May 10, 2012—I.D. Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: IDSY), a leading provider of wireless solutions for securing, tracking and managing high-value enterprise assets, today announced that BASF (FRA: BAS), the world’s leading chemical company, is expanding its deployment of I.D. Systems’ VeriWise™ Track and Trace systems for managing fleets of trailers, totes, and railcars.

VeriWise Track and Trace provides real-time data to improve the efficiency and security of transportation fleets. It is designed for quick, flexible installation on a wide range of cargo-carrying assets, with patented power management technology to provide exceptionally long battery life and years of maintenance-free operation. Track and Trace is also unique in its intrinsic safety, with Underwriter Laboratories’ highest certification for use in proximity to hazardous materials.

BASF (www.basf.us) manufactures a broad portfolio of chemicals, plastics, petroleum, crop protection products, and other materials that contribute to resource conservation, healthy food and nutrition, and an enhanced quality of life. Based in Ludwigshafen, Germany, with North American headquarters in Florham Park, New Jersey, BASF is ranked 71st on the “Global 100” list of the world’s largest companies, with 2011 revenues of more than €73 billion.

“The safe and secure transportation and storage of our products is part of BASF’s commitment to social responsibility and environmental protection,” said Steven P. Williams, BASF Logistics Technology Manager. “We are deploying VeriWise on a diverse range of transportation assets because the system improves our efficiency reliably and cost-effectively, is easy to install and maintain, and is intrinsically safe for our sensitive materials.

“We integrate real-time asset location data from VeriWise with other information systems to eliminate blind spots in the supply chain, schedule shipment deliveries more accurately, and meet or exceed government safety and security standards across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.”

Darryl Miller, Chief Operating Officer of I.D. Systems, said, “We are gratified to expand our relationship with BASF. We remain committed to helping BASF optimize the efficiency of its North American supply chain through our affordable, easy-to-deploy asset tracking systems. At the same time, we are proud of the key role our technology plays in helping BASF meet regulatory requirements for the safe transport of its products.”

About I.D. Systems:

Based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, with subsidiaries in Germany and the United Kingdom, I.D. Systems is a leading provider of solutions for securing, controlling, tracking, and managing high-value enterprise assets, including vehicles, powered equipment, trailers, containers, baggage, and cargo. The Company’s patented technologies address the needs of organizations to monitor and analyze their assets to improve safety, security, efficiency, and productivity. For more information, visit www.id-systems.com.

Woodcliff Lake, NJ —I.D. Systems, a leading provider of wireless solutions for securing, tracking and managing high-value enterprise assets, has executed a multi-year contract with one of the world’s leading logistics service providers to deploy its VeriWise™ Track and Trace system across a fleet of intermodal containers.

The logistics provider acquired the VeriWise system to optimize its investment in a new fleet of intermodal containers. The system will track container locations and provide web-based reports to optimize fleet pooling and dispatching. VeriWise Track and Trace will also dynamically update the status of in-transit loads and proactively identify and correct any gaps in customer service expectations.

“The reliable effectiveness of our Track and Trace product drives significant operational efficiencies and customer service benefits for logistics companies,” said Darryl Miller, Chief Operating Officer of I.D. Systems. “The ease and quality of our device installation was also critical for this customer. With a large fleet of intermodal containers that travel by both truck and rail, the system had to be installed cost effectively, yet survive reliably through every conceivable kind of environmental condition.”

About I.D. Systems:

Based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, with subsidiaries in Germany and the United Kingdom, I.D. Systems is a leading provider of solutions for securing, controlling, tracking, and managing high-value enterprise assets, including vehicles, powered equipment, trailers, containers, baggage, and cargo. The Company’s patented technologies address the needs of organizations to monitor and analyze their assets to improve safety, security, efficiency, and productivity. For more information, visit www.id-systems.com.

New solution helps medical device manufacturers to remain agile while meeting stringent regulatory requirements and continuously improving product quality

LONG BEACH, CA – May 10, 2012 – Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced a new extension to its Global Trace and Genealogy (G-TAG™) software and services solution tailored to meet the specific industry requirements of Medical Device manufacturers. Apriso’s new offering enables greater operational flexibility by delivering timely, contextual manufacturing intelligence and product genealogy data. This new solution helps to accelerate compliance initiatives and improve both in-house and supplier quality performance throughout the life cycle of a product, ultimately helping to reduce the total cost of quality.

As international and local regulatory and traceability requirements have become increasingly stringent, the challenge to remain cost effective in compliance has become more difficult. Medical Device manufacturers must simultaneously improve responsiveness, increase tracking and performance measurement, reduce costs and maintain quality while operating under more complex, global regulatory conditions.

Gartner suggests to medical device manufacturers: “Justify track-and-trace investments through tangible benefits, such as efficient compliance, with serialization and authentication requirements, or enabling inventory management and order fulfillment at downstream customer locations,” as stated in their “Track and Trace: A Healthcare Value Chain Pulse Check” report (ID#G00209860), written by Wayne McDonnell, Hussain Mooraj and Fenella Scott in February 2011.

Apriso’s new G-TAG solution for Medical Device manufacturers provides a centralized repository and framework for collecting and storing all product genealogy and traceability data from internal systems and supply chain partners. This enables better data governance and the standardization of both structured and unstructured data that allow for compliance to emerging Track & Trace standards, achieve greater inventory visibility and more accurate order fulfillment, and of course, drastically improve life cycle management, and adverse event and recall management. As a result, G-TAG can directly impact two of the most pressing issues in the industry today: compliance with emerging regulations, and the costs associated with traditional compliance measures, which can exceed 30% of Cost of Goods Sold.

Specific capabilities include:

* Supply chain synchronization to better connect those involved in analyzing and taking corrective actions on quality issues for more timely resolution

* Standardized data in a single repository to more readily monitor quality and analysis performance so corrective actions can be identified and managed for efficiently

* Global access to electronic device history or batch records, offering better insight into managed quality activities and manufacturing operations

* Unified communications features to improve collaboration between users connected inside the firewall or their trading partners

* Workflow automation between suppliers and internal systems to faster contain issues and take corrective actions

Apriso’s G-TAG solution capabilities are derived from Apriso’s FlexNet, a scalable process-based architecture ideal for medical device manufacturing. The solution is designed to track genealogy and packaging hierarchies at a highly granular level, helping to ensure better data standardization while delivering the many benefits of a product genealogy solution. G-TAG uniquely synchronizes and tracks business processes spanning manufacturing, warehouse and quality operations – both within FlexNet and other third-party applications – on a global scale to facilitate greater collaboration across business units and trade partners.

“Medical Device manufacturers can benefit by implementing Apriso’s new G-TAG solution with a lower cost of compliance and product quality. These cost reductions can be achieved through more timely visibility and responsiveness to product quality issues across the product’s life cycle, including recall management,” said Rick Gallisa, Industry Director – Life Sciences, Apriso.

About Apriso Corporation

Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Medical Device customers include Stryker Spine, Trixell, Becton Dickinson, Terumo Medical, Wright Medical Technologies and Johnson & Johnson. Learn more at: http://www.apriso.com. Visit our blog at http://www.apriso.com/blog.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

- Hosted app allows rapid identification of customers that will be affected by temporary changes to traffic regulations during the 2012 Olympics

- Minimise disruption to customer deliveries caused by Olympic Route Network, Paralympic Route Network, Alternative Route Network, Marathon and Torch Relay events

Optrak Distribution Software Limited today announced the launch of a hosted app for businesses that deliver into London who want to understand and plan for the impact of changes to local traffic regulations before and during the 2012 Olympics. The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app will allow businesses to quickly see which customers are most at risk from the introduction of the Olympic Route Network (ORN), Paralympic Route Network (PRN) and Alternative Route Network (ARN) and specific events, such as the Marathon or the Torch Relay, and therefore who should be contacted in order to minimise disruption.

Tim Pigden, Managing Director of Optrak Distribution Software Ltd said, “The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app is designed to help businesses overcome the difficulty generated by the uncertainty of the full impact of the ORN and PRN. Every business that delivers into London needs to identify the impact on the customer base but that is not an easy task as it means analysing each customer location and then checking different maps on the Transport for London website. The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app provides powerful automated tools to determine which customers are affected, on a day by day basis. This allows businesses to open a dialogue with their customers on the changes that will be required, such as night-time deliveries.”

The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app is free to use for businesses with up to 50 customers, a subscription service is offered for companies with a larger client base and corporate licences are available. Customer information such as addresses and contact numbers can be loaded onto the Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app and then overlaid onto the road network. Various filters are available so you can quickly see which customers are on or near a road that will be affected due to closure or other traffic restrictions.

The feedback on the Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app has been overwhelmingly positive, with one customer describing it as ‘the ideal tool for businesses that want clarity over how delivery routes might be affected’. The simplicity, level of detail and ease of use have all been praised.

The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app uses a combination of the Ordnance Survey and Tfl maps. Once on the website you can zoom in to see precise street level detail that you would normally see in a SatNav system. The Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app allows you to sort your customer data by any number of criteria allowing you to rank customers according to size, value, average spend, etc. The results can be exported to Excel and given to a Customer Services team to follow up.

Mr Pigden concluded, “Different industries such as foodservice, retail, brewing and cash in transit all have different requirements and there is no universal answer, for example, is not practical for caterers to stock up on fresh ingredients. What is clear is that many businesses have been left to fend for themselves when it comes to working out how to cope with the changes. The earlier businesses start planning and talking to their customers, the fewer problems they will experience during the Olympics.”

To learn more about the Optrak Olympic Impact Analysis app please visit http://olympics.optrak.com/.

Malmesbury, UK - 1st May 2012, CPC has provided a number of print solutions to market leading UK manufacturer Walker Filtration. The result is improved quality, reduced cost and simplified manufacturing.

Based in Washington, Tyne and Wear, Walker Filtration is an award winning company that specialises in the design and manufacture of a wide range of industrial air filtration, drying and separation products. Addressing practically any industry where compressed air is used Walker Filtration has a worldwide customer base and an envied reputation for design innovation and technical leadership. 88% of its production is scheduled for export.

CPC started by providing simple CD duplication services for Walker Filtration price lists and followed up with a digital print solution for Product Guides which were formerly litho printed. In this instance limited run restrictions and the quality of print won through. A more substantial project followed in the form of user guides printed in three languages for a top client. CPC was able to suggest alternative ‘wiro’ binding to make the thick guides easier and more practical to use. Again limited runs made digital printing the perfect choice.

Another project, printed labels applied to the plastic bodies of filtration products was next to receive the CPC treatment. The labels had to be printed onto a waterproof substrate and easily applicable by staff on the production line. Vinyl labels on reels gave way to kiss-cut sheets of polycarbonate, providing higher quality and labels that are much easier to apply, something appreciated by staff on the production line.

Finally CPC has provided business cards. Previously litho printed the new cards are digitally printed on high quality stock, again in low runs which has proved more cost effective.

“Quality is of the upmost importance to us. With that in mind, the team at CPC understands our individual needs and suggests solutions to suit our requirements, which is exactly what we look for in a print partner,” said Ross Hamilton, Marketing Manager at Walker Filtration.

“Coming up with appropriate solutions is part of the service we offer to all our clients. In this case we were able to prove the quality and advantages of digital print in small run situations, offer more appropriate binding solutions and improve the quality and ease application of printed labels on the production line. The result is a satisfied customer whose own clients have appreciated this greater attention to detail,” said Kevin Assinder, Managing Director.

Expectation is for Apriso solution to enable real-time visibility to manufacturing operations across six plants

TOKYO, JAPAN – April 12, 2012 – Apriso, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions, today announced that after a comprehensive search process, Faltec has selected Apriso’s FlexNet as their platform for manufacturing operations and inventory management. This selection was based on the need for a highly scalable, global solution to best support the company’s operations spanning five plants in Japan, a plant in Guangzhou, China, as well as their anticipated global expansion.

Greater operational efficiency, as a direct result from better visibility to inventory, was an important consideration of Faltec’s Apriso implementation. By integrating their current Manufacturing Resource Planning / MRP system with Apriso’s FlexNet, Faltec is pursuing improved manufacturing performance to plan. Better visibility can enable eventual reduction in safety stock levels for lower inventory costs.

With Apriso’s FlexNet as an enterprise standard solution leveraged by Faltec, the improved real-time visibility into inventory levels has now been achieved across each of their factories, rather than at a single, isolated plant. This effort is leading to greater Bill-of-materials (BOM) accuracy, production efficiency and awareness about control of defective goods in the field. And, of course, greater inventory accuracy across operations is expected to translate into improved reporting accuracy for customer orders, inventory tracking, resource allocations, OEE and productivity KPIs.

“Faltec is now achieving more than simply greater inventory visibility with our Apriso solution – better synchronization across production, warehouse and inventory processes is accelerating operational throughput, contributing to further performance improvement,” according to Faltec’s Production Management Department.

“We are delighted to partner with Faltec to help streamline their manufacturing operations,” said Gerry Fosnick, General Manager of Field Operations in Japan at Apriso. “Apriso’s seamless integration with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and other enterprise systems helps to ensure that financial reporting objectives are achieved.”

About FALTEC Co., Ltd.

Faltec, a Japan-based automotive parts manufacturer with 1,200 employees, serves a number of global OEM automakers. Their products include automotive exterior resin parts, including radiator grills, bumpers, protector molds and door sashes, as well as aerodynamic parts, door visors, textile products and electrical components. http://www.faltec.co.jp/en/

About Apriso Corporation

Apriso is a software company dedicated to helping its customers transform their global manufacturing operations. It does so by enabling manufacturers to achieve and sustain manufacturing excellence while adapting quickly and easily to market changes. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based software solution for global manufacturing operations management. Apriso supports global continuous improvement by delivering visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves nearly 200 customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Customers include GM, Volvo CE, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Bombardier, Textron Systems, MBDA, Saint-Gobain and Essilor. Learn more at: www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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