Field report of UK seminar

's-Hertogenbosch, December 7, 2005 – On Tuesday the 29^th of November 2005 Quintiq, Europe's fastest growing advanced planning and scheduling company, hosted a UK seminar entitled “Optimising your Logistic Supply Chain with the next generation of dynamic planning software”.

Quintiq assembled a divers group of expert speakers from across the industry who provided a broad perspective in what way the next generation of Advanced Planning & Scheduling Solutions can enable the logistic supply chains to become more punctual and efficient.

Arjen Heeres, Quintiq's COO opened the summit to explain how Quintiq became the fastest growing European APS vendor, with over 150 global implementations in five years.

Nicholas Demeyer, Project Manager from Ewals Cargo Care gave the event's keynote address, speaking about supply chain excellence in their integrated 3PL & 4PL network across Europe. The focus of his presentation was on how Advanced Planning Technology improved the logistics cost base, coordinating Scania's inbound transport (planning 1500 orders per day, within a three hour window) to their manufacturing plants and also the after sales network, including their reverse flows.

Clive Merchant, Senior Lecturer from Heriot-Watt University's Logistics Research Centre presented Transport Key Performance Indicators in the Supply Chain such as trailer capacity, empty running, vehicle time utilisation, fuel consumption and schedule deviations and concluding with the adoption of real time IT solutions such as APS and Track & Trace in the logistic supply chain.

Martin Croucher, Quintiq UK Business Executive & Boudewijn Kooijman, Quintiq Technical Director demonstrated the latest version Quintiq Logistic Suite 4.0. They took several complex collaborative network planning & scheduling problems into account on four different planning levels; strategic, tactical, operation and execution. Concluding with how Advanced Planning and Scheduling solutions fit into an IT infrastructure.

David Collins, Practice Director Supply Chain Management, Unisys UK discussed the evolution of industry IT solutions helping to drive the logistics industry forward. He reflected on past and current Logistic IT networks and what lies ahead in the future.

All companies present at this seminar shared a common factor, which is that they are all challenged on a daily bases to simplify their planning & scheduling processes to adapt to rapid changing market conditions and to stay efficient and profitable. However no two companies and no two planning departments are alike. That's why Quintiq's approach towards complex planning problems is unique. Quintiq's Logistic Suite is one of the few intelligent advanced planning applications that really covers all planning & schedule requirements and is completely adaptable to any kind of contract specific transport.

If missed this seminar and want to learn more about the next generation of advanced planning technology we invite you to visit our website: www.quintiq.com or contact:

Martin Croucher, Quintiq's UK Business Executive
T: +44 14 72 38 89 79
E: martin.croucher@quintiq.com