Thuiszorg Westelijke Mijnstreek selects Quintiq for home care and employee planning

Sixth home care organization to choose Quintiq Homecare planning system

's-Hertogenbosch, September 20, 2006 – Home care organization Thuiszorg Westelijke Mijnstreek is the sixth Dutch home care provider to deploy Quintiq planning software for its employee planning. Earlier the Dutch home care providers West-Friese Zorggroep De Omring, Vivent in Den Bosch, Thuiszorg Rotterdam, Icare in Overijssel and Drenthe and Thuiszorg Noord-Limburg chose the Quintiq Home Care Planning System.

Thuiszorg Westelijke Mijnstreek is an entrepreneurial home care provider with 1,800 employees who deliver a wide variety of home care services that meet the needs of the clients living in the region. The organization services clients in the cities of Sittard-Geleen, Beek, Schinnen, Stein and Susteren. Together with the Maaslandziekenhuis, nine care centers and a hospice, Thuiszorg Westelijke Mijnstreek is part of the Orbis care and medical organization.

By implementing the planning software provided by Quintiq, Thuiszorg Westelijke Mijnstreek is able to further improve employee productivity as well as integrate its internal processes including administration, registration and communication. In this way the organization can deliver on its mission to provide high quality care to its clients. The Quintiq software will initially be used for the planning of approximately 900 employees.

When planning the activities of home care employees, many variables play a role: a regularly changing demand for care, a large number of employees with different competences and contracts, and legislation and union agreements. Using the Quintiq planning software, an organization can take all of these variables into account when making a workforce plan. The software's built-in intelligence not only takes all these variables into account, it also calculates the consequences of any disturbances to the planning. This ensures that the planning process remains as flexible as possible, despite its complexity.

About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain management solutions. The fast-growing Dutch company, established in 1997, offers software for planning, optimizing and automating complex business processes throughout the enterprise. Deloitte has recognized Quintiq as being one of the fastest growing technology companies in Europe, and Gartner has acknowledged Quintiq for its innovative products and market presence. The company’s HQ is in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands and it has subsidiaries in Germany, UK, Malaysia and the USA.

For further information please contact:
Quintiq
Martijn van Gils
Marketing Director
Tel. +31 (0)73 6910739
E-mail: martijn.van.gils@quintiq.com