CIBER and LLamasoft Announce Supply Chain Analytics Partnership
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:52 PM
Symbols: CBR

First Project Results in $200 Million in Potential Savings for Manufacturing Client

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. and ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CIBER, Inc. (NYSE: CBR), a global systems integrator, and LLamasoft, Inc., a leading-edge technology company, announced today that they have formed a partnership to introduce a new suite of CIBER services to the Enterprise Supply Chain Market. CIBER's Strategic and Tactical Analytical Technology Services (STATS) delivers financial returns by leveraging CIBER's Supply Chain best practices with LLamasoft's Supply Chain Guru(TM) -- the industry's leading modeling, optimization, and simulation software.

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Throughout 2008, CIBER and LLamasoft have been engaged at a large automotive manufacturing company delivering supply chain visibility and analytics solutions for business executives. The project has examined the automotive company's existing supply chain structure for cost reduction and performance improvement opportunities across the entire network. The STATS service rendered over $200 million in potential savings through a re-aligned network that maintains industry service levels, while significantly reducing supply chain costs from global sourcing, warehousing, and transportation, through distribution to dealers across North America.

CIBER's supply chain expertise utilizing LLamasoft software creates a powerful approach to evaluating inventory, sourcing, transportation and production planning. CIBER and LLamasoft's Optimization tools provide a robust method to analyze an organization's total supply chain network from supplier to end customer and will help develop an optimal supply chain network for the organization. CIBER and LLamasoft's network simulation tools predict financial metrics, inventory levels over time, customer services rates, individual order fill times, availability rates and many other performance measures.

'Through this alliance, CIBER offers executives a value proposition that transforms Sales and Operations Strategies. This new level of supply chain analysis leverages LLamasoft's Supply Chain Guru(TM) simulation and optimization technology.


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