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Collaboration with SCM Solution
- Support of manufacturing and distribution business management efficiency enhancement -
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
NIHON RATIONAL SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
COMPONENT SQUARE, INC.
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
MANUGISTICS JAPAN K.K.
NTT COMWARE CORPORATION (hereinafter NTT COMWARE, Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo, President Yuji Matsuo) and MANUGISTICS JAPAN K.K. (hereinafter MANUGISTICS, Head Office: Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, President: Richard F. Bergmann) in collaboration and starting November, 2001 will jointly develop an SCM Solution, using MANUGISTICS company products, and will market and distribute it focusing on manufacturing, distribution, and service industries.
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[Conventional Actions]
NTT COMWARE has conventionally provided SCM total solution, which conducts combined construction of the mainstay system with the warehouse management system linked with that system, to the NTT Group. "NetWORKS Demand", which possesses the demand forecasting function of MANUGISTICS, is adopted as the core of the solution. As all information relating to sales can be shared by all related companies and with sales based on demand forecasts, product distribution can be precisely planned with constant appropriate stock maintenance can lower costs and enhance profit margins.
[Solution Characteristics]
NTT COMWARE and MANUGISTICS, based on their past accomplishments, will jointly offer a high value-added CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment) Solution to the manufacturing and logistics industry. With the CPFR Solution, multiple companies that compose the supply chain share the same information, and by doing so, heighten the accuracy of the demand forecast and makes possible constant supply of products without running out of stock by devising optimum production plans. Each company has accumulated data that includes various causation relationships. For example, for the manufacturing side company "manufacturing volume rises a few % whenever it rains" and for the retail side company "sales of a certain product rises a few % whenever a special sale is conducted on a certain day of the week". This Solution improves the accuracy of the data of each company and also by each company contributing their respective accumulative data. Many companies in the US have already implemented this Solution.
[Collaboration Significance]
NTT COMWARE, which offers total solution from system construction to maintenance and operation as wells as consulting and outsourcing services in the information communication field, aims to become the leading company in the SCM field. On the other hand, MANUGISTICS, with its know-how fostered from sales of its company products, will vigorously support NTT COMWARE to increase the market share of SCM products. Both companies will jointly develop a proposal and implement and an improved information system focused on managerial betterment.
With this collaboration, NTT COMWARE will aim for sales of 1 billion yen in the year 2001 and 5 billion yen in the year 2003.
[Company Outline]
About NTT COMWARE CORPORATION
NTT COMWARE, with its human resource of over 8,000 IT engineers as its foundation, has many achievements starting with the large-scale mainstay business processing system of the Japanese information communication market. Over and above its large-scale system construction know-how, NTT COMWARE promotes total solution as an IT service provider from consulting to outsourcing services. NTT COMWARE in the IT market has a background supported by high technologies corresponding to network technologies, security technologies, UNIX / Linux, and Java.
About MANUGISTICS, INC.
MANUGISTICS GROUP, INC. (Head Office: Rockville, Maryland, USA) is the leading provider of the Enterprise Profit Optimization (EPO) field, which is the first solution to conduct simultaneous optimization of supply-side and demand-side business processes. The Manugistics EPO solution as well as the market place solution, lowers operating costs, enhances profitability, and accelerates company growth. MANUGISTICS prides on its client database of more than 1,100 companies, centering on influential companies of respective industries, including 3Com, Amazon.com, Boeing, BP Amoco, Brown and Williamson, Caterpillar, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola Bottling, Compaq, Dupont, eConnections, Ford, General Electric, Harley Davidson, Hormel, Levi Strauss, Marriott, Nestle, Timberland, Unilever, and United Airlines.
Furthermore, the Japan subsidiary company, MANUGISTICS JAPAN K.K., was established in 1997 and provides consistent service from sales to implementation, education, and maintenance and is aggressively active in Japan. MANUGISTICS JAPAN has already currently achieved introduction into over 40 companies inside and outside of Japan, and is steadily gaining clients within Japan.
Manugistics is a registered trademark of Manugistics, Inc. and the Manugistics' logo, the "Leveraged Intelligence" phrase, as well as Enterprise Profit Optomization and NetWORKS are trademarks of Manugistics, Inc. Other company names and product names are registered trademarks and trademarks of the respective companies.
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