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ICON Complements its Solution Portfolio with Enterprise Planning and Performance Management
Strategic Partnership with Steelwedge SoftwareKarlsruhe/Santa Clara, May 6, 2005. ICON Supply Chain Management, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain management solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Steelwedge Software. Both companies aim at extending the breadth of their solution and at cooperating in sales activities in Europe and North America.
Steelwedge Software will add functionality to the ICON portfolio in the areas of Demand Collaboration, Sales & Operations Planning, Budgeting, and Enterprise Performance. Together Steelwedge and ICON are able to offer integrated end-to-end solutions enabling Demand-Driven Supply Networks. The joint functionalities range from enterprise planning over supply chain execution, order fulfillment and network collaboration to enterprise performance and supply chain metrics.
“We are excited to partner with Steelwedge to extend our supply chain solutions portfolio with a very robust and innovative enterprise planning and performance management solution,” said ICON CEO Michael Keppler. “The Steelwedge EPPM solution will add collaborative demand planning and performance management capabilities – a key requirement for our customers.”
“We are seeing a tremendous interest in our solutions from existing SAP and Oracle ERP customers in North America”, said Steelwedge Software CEO Timothy Campbell. “With this announcement we are extending our reach to Europe in a cost-effective manner by partnering with a company that has an extremely successful track record in supply chain planning within our target segment. In ICON we have found a solid partner who can successfully market, distribute, deploy and support our solutions to their customers”.
About ICON
ICON provides flexible, agile, and collaborative supply chain management (SCM) solutions for discrete manufacturing companies and its suppliers. ICON solutions provide exact and reliable global plans for every phase from raw material to the finished product. ICON serves the automotive, general manufacturing and high-tech computer electronics industries. Customers include BMW, Renault, Siemens VDO, Hewlett-Packard and Sanmina-SCI. The company is based in Karlsruhe, Germany, with subsidiaries in Santa Clara, USA and Asia.
For more information please visit www.icon-scm.com.
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ICON Supply Chain Management
5255 Stevens Creek Blvd. #372
Santa Clara, CA 95051, USA
Phone: +1 408 879 2351
Amalienbadstr. 36, RaumFabrik Bau 31
76227 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49 721 79008-34
info@icon-scm.com
www.icon-scm.com
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