Quintiq adds New Dimension to Macro Planner Solution for Strategic Multi-Scenario Planning

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's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, July 2, 2009 – Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced a new release of its Macro Planner Solution. The high-level planning solution enables companies to improve their strategic sourcing and supply chain planning through detailed scenario calculation and active support for multi-level product- and sales hierarchies.
 
Companies see the importance of strategic planning to control their costs in rapidly changing business environments to an even greater extent during these difficult economic times.

Quickly reacting on long-term market developments is becoming increasingly important. Fast economic changes and market conditions lead to a need for companies to understand their actions and the implications on their supply chains to assess the right decisions.
Quintiq Macro Planner helps you with:

• Faster scenario simulation for improved decision making
• Structured Reports to enable smarter process flows
• Active support for multi-level product- and sales hierarchies to optimize the supply chain from procurement to after-sales
• Enhanced usability of the User Interface to support the planner’s activities in real-time
• Insight into product lifetimes to properly plan re-investments
• Full commercial integration: All marketing and sales-related goals can be entirely integrated in the strategic plan
  
  

Integrated strategic planning also allows corporate management to quickly understand the implications of their actions on the bottom line. The new dimensions of Quintiq Macro Planner offer an advanced solution for strategic planning. It supports manufacturing companies in performing strategic network optimization as well as analyzing and taking decisions on all aspects of their supply chains from the medium to long term.

Medium-term planning (1-2 years ahead) ensures the sales and operational plan to be in line with the main company KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Multi-scenario functionality enables easy comparisons of possible business decisions. Consequences of scenarios are immediately visualized as changes in KPIs such as profits and costs, inventory targets and delivery performance. In only a couple of minutes, scenarios can be calculated with real-time data.
Real strategic long-term planning (>2 years) allows proper risk management, sourcing decisions and optimizing the product mix.

The Quintiq Macro Planner can be easily integrated using different sources such as Excel, ERP (e.g. SAP) systems or also other Quintiq Products such as the Quintiq Company Planner or Quintiq Scheduler. With these new developments, the time needed to implement Macro Planner has now also been reduced significantly partly due to the enhanced industry solution functionality.

“The Macro Planner solution has reached a new top level to help customers improve their organization-wide transparency of all supply chain activities”, said Francois Eijgelshoven, one of the Business Directors within Quintiq. “The multi-scenario functionality enables easy comparisons of strategic business options and thus supports management to take the right decisions.”

About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain optimization solutions. The fast-growing company, established in 1997, offers software for planning and optimizing complex business processes throughout the enterprise. The company's headquarters are located in the Netherlands and it has subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, UK, and the USA. For more information: www.quintiq.com

For more information, please contact:
Martijn van Gils
Global Marketing Director
Tel.: +31(0)736910739
E-mail: martijn.van.gils@quintiq.com