Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies - June 2008 - (Page 17) Services will operate once a week, on Mondays, and will utilize A300-600 freighter aircraft, which have a capacity of 40 tons. In April, Etihad Crystal Cargo began freighter operations to the Nigerian city of Lagos and Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, boosting its number of cargo-only destinations to 12, including Chennai, Frankfurt Haan, Khartoum, Kolkata, Milan, Mumbai, New Delhi, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Zheng Zhou. Visit www.etihadcrystalcargo.com. Scandinavian Tobacco Implements FlexNet Solution from Apriso Apriso, which provides adaptive software solutions for global manufacturing operations management, has added a Scandinavian company to its portfolio of tobacco industry clients. Scandinavian Tobacco is implementing the Apriso FlexNet solution, says Dariusz Kudzia, Apriso’s senior director of field operations for Central and Eastern Europe. “The concept of a company needing to plan production several months in advance has quickly become a thing of the past,” he says. “Increasingly, manufacturers must respond quickly to demand fluctuations, while still maintaining the highest levels of quality. Furthermore, manufacturing requirements have only become more complex, with increasingly diverse and complex product requirements to best serve local markets, as well as regulations mandating better traceability and reporting standards.” Scandinavian Tobacco will leverage the Apriso system for real-time access to its shop floor, recording the processes performed by each shop floor machine and worker. This data will flow between the shop floor and the executive suite, delivering the necessary visibility to manage operations, synchronize production and optimize performance. Visit www.apriso.com. L.V. Lomas Targets 3PL Needs of Chemical Industry in Canada L.V. Lomas, active in chemical distribution in Canada, has launched third-party logistics service to assist chemical manufacturers and finished goods manufacturers with packaging and transportation of their products. L.V. Lomas offers the following services: warehousing (climate controlled, 24/7 security monitoring); liquid blending and packaging; distribution and freight services; bagging of multiple size packages; re-pack services; assembly of point-of-sale displays and kitting; bulk transloading; bulk liquid steaming; fulfillment/pick-and-pack; and web-based inventory visibility and online reporting. Visit www.lvlomas.com. Precision Parts Machining Company Deploys PLM Solution from Omnify Omnify Software, which specializes in providing product lifecycle management software for electronic, medical, mechanical and defense manufacturers, says that Treske Precision Machining, a manufacturer of precision machined parts, welded frames and integrated assemblies, selected Omnify Empower as its PLM solution. Omnify says that Treske reports a decrease in engineering change cycles by more than 75 percent by managing all product information within Empower and sharing released data with manufacturing via a direct integration with its Epicor enterprise resource planning system. “As we searched for a PLM solution, one of the key requirements was that it needed to integrate with our Epicor ERP solution,” says Mark Brenden, engineering manager for Treske Precision Machining. “Omnify provided a straightforward PLM solution that was intuitive, extremely easy to use, affordable, and offered the capability to integrate with our ERP solution that other PLM vendors could not deliver.” Omnify Empower is now the master control database for all system and product documentation at Treske. More than 20,000 part numbers and associated prints are involved. Visit www.omnifysoft.com and www.epicor.com. GLOBAL LOGISTICS & SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGIES 17 http://www.etihadcrystalcargo.com http://www.apriso.com http://www.lvlomas.com http://www.omnifysoft.com http://www.epicor.com
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