Optiant Wins S&DCE Green Supply Chain Award for Enabling Sustainability Within Clients' Supply Chains

PowerChain Improves Operational Efficiencies that Lead to Lower Carbon Footprint, Energy Usage & Optimal Warehouse Space

BOSTON, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Optiant, the premier provider of inventory optimization solutions, today announced winning a 2009 Green Supply Chain Award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive (S&DCE) magazine, the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation. Optiant was chosen because of numerous standout projects that have enabled sustainability within their clients' supply chains. Optiant's PowerChain Inventory Optimization Suite and Network Design solutions enable green supply chains that reduce waste, optimize resources, and reduce overall business costs.

"Supply chain network design is one of the most important components of the green supply chain," said Fred Lizza, CEO of Optiant. "With PowerChain Network Design, companies determine the optimal network configuration of their supply chain based on various objectives, such as optimizing logistics operations to lower energy usage, determining how to integrate environmental aspects into manufacturing operations, and determining how to reduce waste within production and product design."

"Even in the wake of the recession, 'sustainability' has become an essential focus for organizations that would seek to maintain their competitive advantage, protect their market share and preserve their brand image," said Andrew K. Reese, editor, Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "The 2009 Green Supply Chain Awards highlights this paradigm shift and the role of the supply chain as a key enabler of sustainability."

The 2009 Green Supply Chain Awards recognizes companies that are taking steps to realize green or sustainable supply chain objectives within their own operations and/or supply chains, in the areas of Sourcing/Procurement, Fulfillment/Logistics, Operations, Product Lifecycle Management, and other areas of the supply chain. The awards also recognize providers of supply chain solutions and services that are assisting their customers in meeting green or sustainable supply chain goals. Supply & Demand Chain Executive selected winners from hundreds of online submission based on the clarity and content of the goals and strategy, the extent of the steps being taken, and the impact of the results to date and projected results. The full listing of the 2009 Green Supply Chain Awards recipients will be featured in the October/November 2009 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine and online at www.SDCExec.com.

Optiant's PowerChain Inventory, Planner, and Network Design software solutions are used by global companies to improve efficiencies within their operations that lead to lower carbon footprints, reduced energy usage, and optimal usage of warehouse/DC space. With PowerChain Inventory, organizations strategically position raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods inventory across the global supply chain to improve inventory turns, free up working capital, and increase efficiencies within operations. Jointly, the PowerChain Network Design & PowerChain Inventory solution allows companies to develop inventory policies based on the constraints identified in the network design process.

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.

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