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.