WAM SYSTEMS TO HOST INSIGHT 2008
Veteran Supply Chain Planning Solution Provider Gathers Top Executives
to Discuss Planning Workflow and Technology Landscape
PHILADELPHIA, PA —
May 27, 2008 —
WAM Systems, a leading provider of supply chain planning solutions to the process industry, today announced the date of WAM Insight 2008, a supply chain planning conference that will bring together executives from throughout the WAM community to discuss the challenges and advancements in process industry planning.
The 3-day conference will deliver an in-depth review of enabling technologies and best practices business workflow currently driving the supply chain planning of process industry leaders throughout the world. The conference’s keynote presentation by Jack Weiss, WAM's CEO, will be followed by:
- A presentation on best practices from a two-year benchmarking study of the planning workflow of leading process industry companies
- A review of unique methods that organizations use to leverage WAM’s supply chain planning solution, Picaso™, to maintain efficient production schedules, optimal inventory levels, high customer service levels and optimized distribution
- New technology developments by WAM Systems
- Numerous case studies presenting how companies are navigating current challenges such as globalization and limited visibility to critical events
"This conference gives us an ideal opportunity to engage a large portion of the Picaso user community as well as members of our global partner network in discussion on some of the key topics facing our industry”, said Jack Weiss, CEO of WAM Systems. “For the last several years there has been very strong interest from our customers in opportunities to meet with other users and share best practices. So we are pleased to be able to address that interest in this larger forum and leverage the opportunity to share some new developments that will positively impact our customers.”
The last day of the conference is devoted to exploration of new technologies being developed by WAM for process industry companies throughout the world. Planned presentations include reviews of new web-based technologies including a new analytics solution that supports extensive mining of planning metrics.
“We have spent a considerable amount of time evaluating software technologies that have become accessible in the last few years and have been leveraging the best for our supply chain suite”, said WAM CTO, Mark Zod. “It has always been WAM’s goal to provide solutions that strike the right balance between functionality, ease-of-use and IT infrastructure. With that approach in mind, we have a created powerful new functionality that we will introduce at the conference.”
WAM Insight will be held on October 19-21, 2008 at the Hilton DoubleTree, Philadelphia West in Plymouth Meeting, PA. For more information about WAM Insight 2008, please visit
www.waminsight.com.
About WAM Systems
WAM Systems delivers advanced supply chain planning solutions designed specifically for process manufacturers.
WAM's supply chain solutions are used throughout the global process industry, providing a broad set of visualization, decision support, and optimization tools that address the unique challenges found in managing complex supply chains. The company has an established track record of deploying its supply chain decision support and optimization technologies across a wide variety of process manufacturing markets including polymers, chemicals, CPG, pharmaceuticals, and oil & gas refining.
The company and its worldwide partners also provide a full range of consulting, support, training and implementation services.
Headquartered outside of Philadelphia, WAM's customers include Arkema, Celanese, Chevron Phillips, EvonikDegussa, Eastman, FMC, Honam, Indian Oil, Ineos, LyondellBasell, Kraton, Lonza, Oxea, PetroRabigh, Sasol and Solvay.
For more information on WAM Systems, visit
www.wamsystems.com.
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