KPMG Consultants and Quintiq announce partnership

Partnership combines KPMG Consultants’ strength in advanced planning and scheduling consulting services and Quintiq’s strength in providing flexible and intelligent software.

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – June 21, 2001 – KPMG Consultants, a consulting and system integration company specializing in supporting their customers in defining and implementing business and IT strategies and Quintiq, a software solution firm providing advanced scheduling and supply chain optimization technology, announced today they will be partnering to deliver enhanced services and solutions to KPMG Consultants’ clients.

By combining the unique expertise of KPMG Consultants’ Planning and Simulation division with the technology of Quintiq, both company's expect to expand their services to their clients. The KPMG Consultants and Quintiq philosophies towards advanced scheduling and supply chain optimization perfectly match and the services and products both companies provide are fully complementary. With the Quintiq technology KPMG Consultants will assist logistic and production companies in their migration to a more efficient and rational use of resources. The Quintiq technology enables KPMG Consultants to create strategic IT solutions for companies, helping them to drive their businesses more efficient and adaptive to changes in the market. “By partnering with Quintiq, we are providing our clients with access to best of breed technology in advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization and are able to offer 100% fit solutions", said Wouter Tielemans, partner of KPMG Consultants. "The flexibility and ease of deployment of the technology guarantees we are not limited in creating innovative solutions, assuring that we can concentrate on our core competencies and continue to add value for our clients by offering consulting services tailored to their needs."

About KPMG Consultants
KPMG Consultants is part of KPMG, a global network of professional advisory firms that aim to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, people and communities. With more than 106,000 people collaborating worldwide, the firms provide assurance, tax and legal, financial advisory, and consulting services from more than 820 cities in 159 countries. To learn more about KPMG, visit www.kpmg.com.

About Quintiq
Quintiq, founded in 1997 in the Netherlands, offers the solution to virtually any planning, scheduling and optimization problem. Quintiq's breakthrough technology offers the possibility to easily model and optimize any business. The Quintiq technology is implemented in a wide variety of branches ranging from production, manufacturing to logistic. Quintiq specializes in software development and marketing of software.