Meneba selects Quintiq for multi-site planning

('s-Hertogenbosch, June 14th 2002) Today Meneba, a leading international processor of corn, and Quintiq, supplier of Advanced Planning, Scheduling & Supply Chain Optimization software, announce they have signed an agreement for the delivery and implementation of software and services for recipe optimization and multi-site planning.

Meneba processes around 1.8 million tonnes of corn on an annual basis at its five production locations in the Netherlands and Belgium. Meneba has more than 350 flour types besides the many corn speciality products, that all have very specific quality aspects and can be produced on the basis of an almost infinite combination of corn types and additives.
In the first phase Quintiq will, in cooperation with Meneba, develop a model, for the combinatorial optimization of these corn types, taking in to account the very strict quality aspects, variable costprices, availability of the many raw materials and specific restrictions in the production process.

In the second phase of the project this recipe optimization model will be expanded upon with scheduling functionality in order to plan the production process integrally in the various locations, realizing a supply chain optimization. Furthermore the subsidairies can pro-actively take into account the levels of raw materials and semi-finished products of stock and if necessary exchange these. This will enable an increased transparancy of the production process and will result in cost savings.

Eelko Hoekstra, Operational Director of Meneba adds: "The system offers important management information, which is of considerable importance in the strategic and operational decision making process within Meneba. With Quintiq, Meneba will be able to achieve the most economic recipe composition on the one hand and on the other hand realize an even smaller variation in the essential quality aspects per finished product."

Meneba
Meneba is a leading producer of high-quality corn products, intended for the processing of food, feed and non-food applications. In the selection process of the raw materials and mixtures much attention is given to product safety. The quality of Meneba's products is realized within a broad quality system that meets the needs of ISO 9001, HACCP, GMP and BRC. Meneba is actively helping to reduce the health riscs through an integral supply chain approach. The whole process from sowing to grinding is being registered.

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.

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