Software/Service Bundle builds supply chain prototype model.
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Bundle of software and services helps build prototype strategic supply chain design model in one day. SAILS 21® v4.0 strategic supply chain planning and design software provides user interface, data preparation tools, scenario generation, evaluation capabilities, and optimization engine that ensure study team will meet follow-on deadlines. Single-day prototyping service uses summary data from firm and leverages databases included with SAILS 21 product.
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INSIGHT Announces Supply Chain 'Prototype Model in a Day' Bundle for Mid-Market Firms
Mid-Market Manufacturers, Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Firms & Others Get Best Optimization & Fastest Solver Engine With Software & Service Bundle
MANASSAS, Va., March 20 / -- INSIGHT, Inc., top international provider of planning solutions that power supply chain design for the world's foremost companies, announces a bundle of software and services that build a prototype strategic supply chain design model in a day. The bundle enables potential users, whether mid-market firms, Third-Party Logistics (3PL) providers, or international giants, to quickly gain an understanding of the power and scope of SAILS 21(R) V4.0, recognized as the industry reference standard for strategic supply chain planning and design. No other software tool or vendor even comes close to delivering prototypical results in such a short time.
"SAILS 21(R) V4.0 is so easy to use that INSIGHT, working in conjunction with company representatives, can build a working prototype model of a supply chain in less than a day, even if the firm has no previous experience with strategic supply chain design," said Jeffrey Karrenbauer, president of INSIGHT, Inc. "This exercise illustrates how SAILS 21(R) V4.0 provides INSIGHT customers with the optimization-based power to minimize costs, maximize profits, and reduce inventories, while simultaneously respecting the realities of capacity limits and customer service requirements. The new supply chain vulnerability/hardening analysis options address a rapidly emerging and critical risk-management need of contemporary executives."
The one-day prototyping service uses a small amount of easily available summary data from the firm and leverages the extensive databases included with SAILS 21(R) V4.0 to build a working model. The one-day exercise illustrates all the major steps in the analysis and points the way to the more rigorous study to follow. The combination of user interface, support databases, data preparation tools, scenario generation, evaluation capabilities, and powerful optimization engine ensures that the study team will meet follow-on deadlines as well.
INSIGHT offers a one-stop shop, a single source of software, training, technical support, professional services and strategic design expertise for the wide ranging needs of supply chain planners. Applications range from tinkering with the design of uncomplicated finished goods networks to extensive redesign of the most complex, world-wide supply chains, from sources of raw materials to final customers. SAILS 21(R) V4.0 is made available via attractive, flexible pricing and licensing options which assure that a user pays only for the level of capability, training and support required.
During the redesign and testing phases, INSIGHT received overwhelmingly positive reaction to the features of SAILS 21(R) V4.0. These include an extensively redesigned user interface, solver engine improvements, and updated support databases such as worldwide geo-reference and mapping coverage, standard location lists, Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) rates, TruckLoad (TL) rates, parcel rates, regional facility construction and operating cost indices, distance and transit time tables, and other socioeconomic and site location data.
About INSIGHT, Inc.
INSIGHT software and consulting provide optimization-based supply chain tools and analytical expertise for many of the world's foremost companies. INSIGHT solves critical, complex problems for 40% of Fortune Magazine's top fifty, 70% of Business Week's most profitable corporations, and 70% of the companies judged to have the best supply chains. Clients often select INSIGHT when other solutions have failed and come to rely on Insight to gain and maintain significant competitive advantage. They include Abbott Laboratories, BASF, Cardinal Health, Clorox, ExxonMobil, Goodyear, GE, Kellogg, PepsiCo, Nestle, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Toyota, and Unilever.
The X-System(R), a proprietary optimization engine, powers a family of planning and scheduling solutions, from the design of a global supply chain to transportation procurement. In recent years, INSIGHT has also established successful partnerships with third party software providers, such as Optiant with PowerChain(TM) Inventory and ILENS with IBID Transport(TM) to deliver best-of-breed solutions. Call INSIGHT at (703) 366-3061. On the Web, visit www.INSIGHT-MSS.com.
