Ottawa, Ont. and Silicon Valley, CA; Feb., 2011 - Pelyco Systems,
a global provider of web-based, collaborative supply chain/logistics
visibility and spreadsheet management solutions, today announced
that IBM (NYSE: IBM), the world’s largest information technology
company, has replaced their global Demand Management application
with Pelyco Systems’ SmartSpreadSheet™ and webPUBLISH™ visibility
solution. The Pelyco solution has been able to reduce cost of the
global demand management process while providing flexibility that
did not exist within the SAP system.
IBM, the world's largest computer company and systems integrator
with over 329,000 employees worldwide, regards a flexible supply
chain as a strategic differentiator of the business, and considers
demand fulfillment to be the heart of its planning and execution
solution. As an innovator in cost management and thought
leadership, IBM was driven by a need to reduce cost and complexity
associated with the DM application. IBM’s implementation of Pelyco
System’s collaborative SmartSpreadSheet and webPUBLISH Supply Chain
Visibility solution has delivered a much more intuitive, user
friendly and collaborative demand management solution and is
currently being used globally as a front end to SAP.
The SmartSpreadSheet Demand Management application supports a global
community of over 300 master planners across IBM at a fraction of
the cost of the previous DM module. In addition, the
SmartSpreadSheet application is real-time; eliminating what was
previously a batch process. The latency that is often associated
with data collection and deep "what-if" analysis has been eliminated
with SmartSpreadSheet. IBM needed their DM process to be tightly
integrated with their supply chain planning tools and processes—not
simply loosely coupled. And that’s where IBM has been able to
utilize webPUBLISH as part of their global visibility solution.
IBM’s results with this project are outstanding and are helping the
company achieve a competitive advantage by realizing breakthrough
performance across multiple operations performance metrics. Specific
benefits include:
Pelyco Systems is a leading provider of collaborative Supply
Chain/Logistics Visibility and Spreadsheet Management Solutions.
Pelyco’s SmartSpreadSheet™ and powerful visibility and reporting
infrastructure and toolset, webPUBLISH™, Smart Dashboard and Ad-Hoc
Reporter remove the complexity of large scale and multiple planning
systems, cut costs, and provide companies with the capabilities to
leverage their existing data assets.
About Pelyco
Systems Pelyco Systems delivers collaborative supply chain/logistics
visibility and spreadsheet management solutions that help companies
improve business process efficiencies and streamline operations that
directly result in cost reductions and improved cash flow.
Established in 1993, Pelyco develops and supports leading edge,
web-based supply chain/logistics visibility solutions for
manufacturers and their supply chains. Pelyco is a privately held
company headquartered in Foster City, California. For more
information on the company and its products and services, visit
Pelyco on the web at
http://www.pelyco.com
For more information:
Stephanie Joy
Pelyco Systems
Tel: (650) 349-4851
stephanie.joy@pelyco.com
About IBM
Headquartered in Armonk, N.Y., IBM is the world’s largest
information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in
helping businesses innovate. With $96 billion in annual revenue, IBM
has approximately 329,000 employees and conducts business in some
170 countries. http://www.ibm.com
