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so many actual shipments everyday, around the world,” says Roy Schijns, an ALK vice president. Visit www.pcmiler.com and www.llamasoft.com. Boston Market Restaurant Chain Sticks with RedPrairie Solutions Set Boston Market Corporation has selected RedPrairie’s Site Operations and Performance Management solutions for Food Service. Boston Market, which operates about 600 restaurants in 28 states, needed a chain-wide window into all aspects of site operations, including labor scheduling, time and attendance tracking, recipe management, inventory management, key performance indicator monitoring, and business analytics, RedPrairie says. The chain currently utilizes a legacy RedPrairie solution and will move to RedPrairie’s hosted service model when it implements the new solutions. “Swiss exports to China increased 35 percent over the last three years and imports to Switzerland from China increased 16 percent in 2007. It is therefore a great challenge to position our brand and quality offerings in Shanghai, our second online station within the Greater China Area,” says Dieter Vranckx, managing director for Asia, Africa and Middle East. “The new flight will enable our customers to take advantage of Swiss WorldCargo’s premium services to ensure high quality delivery of general cargo and special products across our global network.” Visit www.swissworldcargo.com. GSSI Sources for Print, Promotional Solutions Provider WorkflowOne Global Sourcing Solutions says it has partnered with WorkflowOne, a provider of print and promotional solutions, and will offer needed supply chain support for print and packaging materials. GSSI, a U.S. company with a focus on Asia, will work with WorkflowOne’s strategic sourcing group to identify sales opportunities, source suppliers and manage production. GSSI says it has heavily invested in its in-country managers, who monitor production, manage quality control and testing, and oversee logistics planning to ensure product consistency. Visit www.myglobalsourcing.com and www.workflowone.com. Citi Plans Global Roll-out of Ariba Spend Solutions Ariba says that Citi’s Global Transaction Services unit will use the provider’s spend management solutions worldwide. Citi will integrate Ariba Invoice and Payment with its own electronic payment and supplier finance offerings to enable endto-end financial supply chain management for its clients. Citi is the first financial services company to agree to private-label Ariba’s spend management solutions to create additional value for customers. “Citi has a long history of driving innovation to meet the unique and evolving needs of our clients,” says Julie Monaco, regional head, North America, Global Transaction Services, Citi. “Leveraging Ariba’s invoice and payment solutions in combination with our own industry-leading offerings, we can bring to market an integrated solution that enables clients to unlock the full potential of working capital efficiencies and realize cost reductions across the organization.” Citi will integrate its electronic payment solutions, including a recently launched buyer-initiated purchase card, with Ariba’s invoice and payment offerings. Additionally, Citi will establish connectivity to its supplier finance services. These enhancements will enable Citi clients to reduce invoice processing cost and cycle time; perform electronic settlement via ACH and purchasing card; transition suppliers from paper to electronic payments; access working “We selected RedPrairie because they have the breadth of product, food service and workforce management expertise to handle a large scale project such as ours,” says John Jones, vice president of operations systems for Boston Market Corporation. “The implementation of RedPrairie’s solutions will ensure that our management teams are afforded the most timely and accurate information needed to supply and staff each location to best service our extremely valued customers.” Visit www.RedPrairie.com. Swiss WorldCargo Begins Daily Zurich-Shanghai Run Swiss WorldCargo has launched a non-stop flight between Zurich and Shanghai. The daily run, which takes 12 hours and 25 minutes, uses an Airbus A340-300. 22 JULY 2008 http://www.pcmiler.com http://www.llamasoft.com http://www.swissworldcargo.com http://www.myglobalsourcing.com http://www.workflowone.com http://www.RedPrairie.com

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