GRAHAM PACKAGING TO DEPLOY WAM SYSTEMS ADVANCED PLANNING SOLUTION
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA. — May 24, 2010 — WAM Systems, a leading provider of supply chain planning solutions designed for process manufacturers, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to implement its supply chain planning solution at Graham Packaging Company LLC. WAM will support GPC’s US supply chain including blow-molded plastic containers for food and beverages, automotive lubricants, household products, and personal care and specialty products.
Graham Packaging designs, sells, and manufactures value-added, custom blow-molded plastic containers for branded consumer products. The company operates 90 manufacturing plants across the Americas and Europe.
The WAM solution was chosen due to the WAM team’s depth of industry expertise, superior solutions, and flexibility to model both the physical and economic constraints of Graham’s supply chain. “We are delighted to have been entrusted by Graham to assist them in improving their supply chain planning process and tools,” says TC Baker, VP of Industry Solutions at WAM. “They have assembled a terrific core team and we look forward to helping them realize the benefits that justified the project.”
About Graham Packaging Company
Graham Packaging, based in York, Pennsylvania, is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of technology-based, customized blow-molded plastic containers for the branded food and beverage, household, personal care/specialty, and automotive lubricants product categories. It operates 28 facilities outside the United States and has a strong presence in both Europe and South America. For more information about Graham Packaging, please visit
www.grahampackaging.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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