PeopleSoft Delivers Pure Internet Analytics For Supply Chain Planning; Workbenches Enables Realtime Planning with Customers, Suppliers, and Channel Partners

Business Wire, Oct 23, 2000

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LOS ANGELES & ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000

PeopleSoft is making collaborative supply chain planning a checklist item for supply chain solutions.

Today PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) announced analytic applications for collaborative forecasting, distribution planning, capacity planning, and material planning. These pure internet workbenches enable businesses to publish supply plans in collaboration with customers, suppliers and channel partners, and react quickly to potential bottlenecks in the supply chain. This realtime data can be accessed through the PeopleSoft Customer and Supplier Portals.

"The breadth and depth of PeopleSoft 8 Supply Chain Planning applications are exciting to see," said Christer Wadman at Surgency. "PeopleSoft 8 strengthens PeopleSoft's planning solution significantly, especially in the area of integration with the overall supply chain."

PeopleSoft 8 Supply Chain Planning also offers a range of new features, including:

-- A graphical production scheduling tool for manufacturing planning, enabling
businesses to visually identify and correct production bottlenecks.

-- Visualization of interconnected supply and demand orders across the
enterprise that allows planners to better support high priority customer
demands.

-- Enhanced planning solvers for optimizing capacity between production work
centers and user-defined enterprise resources.

-- User defined OLAP cubes for analyzing inventory strategy scenario costs
based on service levels, order policies, forecast error, and target inventory
turns.

-- Product lifecycle profiles for forecasting new product introductions.

"What's beneath the covers of eBusiness is a demand and supply balancing act that can become increasingly complex when dealing with new channels of demand," said Mike Frandsen, vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft's Supply Chain Management division. "PeopleSoft 8 offers a host of new capabilities providing companies with a broad range of options for effectively managing demand and supply directly with business partners."

The PeopleSoft's supply chain planning solution is part of PeopleSoft 8 Supply Chain Management, the industry's only comprehensive, rapidly deployable pure internet supply chain solution. The advanced planning solution integrates with award-winning business analytics for customer and product profitability, extending beyond order capture and fulfillment to enable realtime collaboration with customers and suppliers across the supply chain.

About PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft is a world leader in providing eBusiness applications that enable people -- customers, employees, and suppliers -- to power the internet. PeopleSoft's pure internet Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, and Enterprise Management solutions provide the industry's most open and flexible e-commerce platform. PeopleSoft employs more than 7,900 people worldwide, including 2,400 eBusiness consultants. More than 4,600 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft eBusiness applications.

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