DutchView goes live using Quintiq for workforce planning

('s-Hertogenbosch, December 10th 2003) Quintiq, the leading provider of advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain solutions, announced today that DutchView, one of the largest Audio & Video facility companies in Europe, has succesfully implemented Quintiq’s workforce planning solutions to power the company's integrated planning initiative.

DutchView’s objectives are to further improve the utilization rate of employees, materials and means, which are being brought into action at various TV productions and reducing the costs. Well-known Dutch national TV programs are being provided with the services of DutchView such as drama, cultural, news and entertainment productions.

Bernard Kobes, Managing Director of Dutchview adds:”DutchView has successfully gone live with Quintiq. More than ever, the time-to-benefit for any solution we implement is critical to DutchView. Using Quintiq’s multi-resource planning, DutchView will achieve an optimization of the company process and the cost structure, as well as an improvement of the service level. Main reason for choosing Quintiq was reducing the operational costs, and at the same time improving the delivery performance and customer satisfaction.”

Without the help of Quintiq it became practically impossible for DutchView to combine the personnel, materials (like movie camera’s, mobile broadcast systems and studio’s) and means in an efficient way and get a clear picture of all the consequences of changes (like running over time, postponement or a new order).

The Quintiq solution takes the various constraints and logic of the business process into account and simultaneously reaches the most optimal combination of people, means and materials. The system takes into account the various skills of employees, employment terms, overtime, illness, availability and utilization of personnel and freelancers as well as specific wishes of customers.

Unisys Consulting (formerly known as KPMG Consulting) was the implementation partner.

DutchView
DutchView, a new name for a trusted company. DutchView is a spin off from the NOB (Nederlands Omroepproduktie Bedrijf) as an independent company for video- and audio registration. DutchView provides its services to almost all TV stations, channels and producers in The Netherlands. DutchView is also active abroad, being one of the largest Audio & Video facility companies in Europe.

Quintiq
Quintiq offers a standard software solution to virtually any planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization problem. Its breakthrough technology empowers companies with flexible solutions, enabling them to exactly model their business and optimize it fully, delivering bottom line value. Please visit www.quintiq.com for more information.

About Unisys
Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure and server technology with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. Unisys' APS competence centre has extensive expertise in complex planning problems, operations research (optimisation) and GIS technology.
For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

For more information: Martijn van Gils, Marketing Manager, Tel. +31-(0)73 6910739 e-mail: martijn.van.gils@quintiq.com.