Third Consecutive Appearance on Prestigious List

BOSTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Optiant, the premier provider of inventory planning and inventory optimization solutions, announces being named to Food Logistics magazine's FL100 listing of top technology and service providers for 2009. This is Optiant's third consecutive appearance on this prestigious list of solution providers who stand out among their competitors.

"We are proud to be named to this list of outstanding solutions providers for the third consecutive year," said Fred Lizza, president and CEO of Optiant, Inc. "As a leader in the food, beverage, and CPG markets, Optiant provides big and small companies, including Kraft, Nestle, P&G, and others, inventory optimization and network design solutions that yield optimal inventory levels that meet customer service requirements while lowering supply chain costs."

"The FL100 listing provides a guide for decision-making grocery and foodservice distribution and manufacturing executives," explains Katherine Doherty, editor-in-chief of Food Logistics magazine. "These companies rely on technology to better manage their supply chains and help weather the financial storm. The FL100 recipients have demonstrated that they can meet our readers' specific needs."

The FL100 is a listing of technology solution and service providers that are helping food, beverage and CPG companies gain a competitive logistical advantage. The annual list highlights a broad range of technology solutions and services that are targeted at the food industry, addressing the needs of companies of varying sizes that make up the food supply chain. The FL100 listing will be featured in the November/December issue of Food Logistics and on the http://www.foodlogistics.com website.

Optiant's PowerChain helps one large CPG company to optimize inventory across the supply chain while recognizing interrelationships between multiple echelons (or layers) of the supply chain, resulting in less inventory and lower supply chain costs. Another food company uses PowerChain to improve inventory, while addressing product freshness and seasonality, for an inventory reduction in the millions of dollars and an increase in customer service levels to >99%.

About Optiant

Optiant, a premier provider of inventory optimization, supply chain network design, and supply chain business intelligence solutions, helps Global 2000 companies optimize bottom-line performance by reducing inventories, freeing up working capital, optimizing supply chain asset utilization and delivering lowest total supply chain costs.

Optiant's PowerChain® solutions optimally balance resources, total costs, and customer service across the entire, extended supply chain to deliver greater profitability, increased customer satisfaction, more efficient use of capital, and a resilient supply chain that fully handles uncertainty in supply and demand. Optiant has transformed supply chains for the world's leading manufacturers including Procter & Gamble, Kraft, HP, IKEA, Microsoft and Boston Scientific.

Delivering millions of dollars in returns, Optiant's solutions for consumer product, high tech manufacturing and industrial organizations generate quantifiable savings, often within 90 days of implementation. Optiant's solutions, certified for integration by SAP and other ERP systems, are based on award-winning research from MIT and decades of experience dedicated to the identification and realization of supply chain efficiencies. For more information, please visit http://www.optiant.com.

Optiant, the Optiant logo, and PowerChain® are registered trademarks of Optiant, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

About Food Logistics

Food Logistics is the only publication exclusively dedicated to covering the movement of product throughout all channels of the supply chain. Food Logistics serves the information needs of food, beverage and consumer packaged goods executives involved in warehousing, transportation and information technology, as well as third-party and refrigerated service providers. Through our print and online products, we provide news, trends and best practices that help more than 24,000 grocery and foodservice suppliers, distributors and retailers make better business decisions. On the web at www.foodlogistics.com.

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    John Brewer
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    john [dot] brewer [at] optiant [dot] com

    Becky Boyd
    MediaFirst PR - Atlanta
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