PILOT CHEMICAL SELECTS WAM’S SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTION FOR PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AND INVENTORY PLANNING
Specialty Chemical Manufacturer Launches Operations Excellence Initiative
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – November 7, 2008 – Pilot Chemical Company, a global specialty chemical manufacturer headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio has selected WAM Systems' Picaso™ Supply Chain Planning Solution to support its manufacturing and supply chain excellence program.
WAM’s production scheduling, supply chain collaboration, and real-time event monitoring solutions will be implemented in support of Pilot’s global alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation, and distillation operations. The initiative will include Pilot’s Lockland, Ohio, Middletown, Ohio Avenel, New Jersey and Houston, Texas manufacturing facilities.
“We take great pride in our reputation as the most flexible and customer service friendly provider of high quality specialty chemicals to a variety of industries including detergents, personal care, lubricants, oilfield, textiles and agriculture,” said Sue Leslie, Pilot’s Vice President of Operations. “Picaso will be instrumental in supporting our continuous improvement goals in customer service, manufacturing scheduling, purchasing, and inventory control.”
The implementation project includes real-time integration between the Picaso planning platform and Pilot’s chemical industry-specific Chempax C/S® ERP system provided by Datacor, Inc. of Florham Park, New Jersey.
About Pilot Chemical Company
Pilot Chemical is a privately owned environmentally conscious global specialty chemical company providing the household and industrial detergent, personal care, lubricant, oilfield, emulsion polymerization, textile, and agriculture industries with high-quality specialty chemicals. Pilot’s proprietary technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation, distillation and a number of other specialty operations. Pilot Chemical is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. To learn more about Pilot Chemical Company, visit
www.pilotchemical.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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