- Value Added Resellers to provide mid-market enterprises and
companies in new regions seamless access to advanced planning
capabilities needed for digital supply chain transformation
- VARs to offer feature-rich entry-level supply chain planning
product package to accelerate the digital transformation
journey
OTTAWA, ON, Nov. 29, 2021 /CNW/ - Kinaxis® Inc.
(TSX: KXS), the authority in driving agility for fast, confident
decision-making in an unpredictable world, continues to
broaden the customer value driven in collaboration with its global
partner ecosystem by welcoming new partners to the Value Added
Reseller (VAR) program. VARs will offer a Kinaxis RapidResponse®
starter package, Kinaxis Planning One™, to help transition
mid-market enterprises and companies in new regions from Excel or a
patchwork of point solutions to an end-to-end foundation for
advanced supply chain planning with the fastest time to go-live in
the market.
"Expanding Kinaxis PartnerLink through the addition of a VAR
program is creating a new and exciting way for us to address the
supply chain transformation needs of more customers around the
world," says Conrad Mandala, Vice
President Global Partner Organization, Kinaxis. "With our newly
established partnerships in North
America, EMEA and Asia
Pacific, more companies can achieve their supply chain
vision by leveraging our leading RapidResponse concurrent planning
solution and VARs' best-in-class consulting and implementation
services."
The VAR program will establish a global network and community of
Kinaxis partners that is focused on helping joint customers execute
their supply chain strategy while having the ability to work
start-to-finish with a trusted partner in their geographic region.
Selected for their expertise in supply chain and the regions they
serve, VARs will market, sell, deploy and support Planning One,
which leverages the RapidResponse platform, to bring control tower
capabilities and supply, demand, inventory and operational planning
to companies looking to mature their supply chain. When leveraging
the Kinaxis RapidStart implementation approach, VARs will help
customers achieve time-to-value in as little as 12 weeks.
"Kinaxis has been a trusted partner of mSE Solutions for four
years," said Klaus Imping, CEO, mSE Solutions. "By expanding our
relationship with Kinaxis as a VAR, we can make digital end-to-end
supply chain accessible to new client segments as a comprehensive,
all-inclusive package with incredible time-to-value."
The program will launch in Q1 2022 in partnership with:
- Aeonvis, an Italian organizational and
technological consulting company with proven supply chain planning
experience, specializing in design, planning, implementation and
management of global programs that integrate processes, human
capital and technologies.
- CSA Danışmanlık, a business software and consulting
company based in Turkey, aims to
offer innovative solutions by combining technology with best
practices for the industry. Founded in 2011, CSA serves
customers around the world in the automotive, consumer products and
life sciences industries.
- CloudPaths, based in California, collaborates with customers to
transform supply chains and make them effective and robust. The
company aids clients in the journey to cloud-based architectures
amplifying and aligning the benefits of the cloud to achieve
business goals.
- Firsttech Software, a software company
headquartered in Taiwan, offers
supply chain management software to help uniformly review all
influencing factors related to the manufacturing process, and build
an integrated supply chain.
- Genpact, a global professional services firm with
more than 20 years of consulting experience and technology
expertise, helps large enterprise clients transform and operate
their global supply chains with increased efficiency, accuracy, and
resiliency.
- GitaCloud, a global reseller and implementation services
provider, helps medium-to-large enterprises with their supply chain
digital transformation. Headquartered in California, with a global delivery center in
India, GitaCloud solves hard
problems and delivers hard value powered by AI/ML with a focus on
CPG/retail, high-tech and industrial manufacturing verticals.
- Mark9, a Singapore-based supply chain consulting and
advisory company with a strong presence across APAC. The company is
committed to delivering next wave supply chain solutions to
customers and helping organizations transform their supply chains
to meet demand profitably while building resilience and agility in
processes and systems with a people-centric approach.
- mSE Solutions, a supply chain solution consultancy
with over 30 years' experience, stands for Digital Supply Chain
Management end-to-end. The company's "Plug&Plan" is a packaged
approach that combines Kinaxis RapidResponse with a smart path to
end-to-end supply chain digitalization with quick time to value,
delivering e2e visibility in 6 weeks.
- Olivehorse, a well-known supply chain planning
services provider headquartered in the UK, supports customers to
digitize and mature their supply chain planning activities in the
face of modern-day challenges. It specializes in end-to-end supply
chain planning by combining deep solution expertise with pragmatic
business know-how, to enable customers to get the most out of their
SCM platforms.
- SCM Connections, based in Chicago, develops innovative supply chain
process designs, quality implementations and sustainable adoption
to provide long-term advantages for customers through the use of
advanced supply chain analytics including supply optimization,
multi-echelon inventory optimization, and advanced demand
forecasting algorithms.
- Scott Sheldon, a
consulting firm based in Ohio,
focuses on driving bottom-line financial improvements for its
clients by optimizing their supply chain operations, reducing
supply chain complexity and risk, driving down inventories,
improving freight costs, optimizing space density and increasing
warehouse throughput.
- Simbus, a global supply chain consulting and solutions
company based in Bangalore, India,
delivers mission-critical digital transformation projects in the
areas of product lifecycle management, supply chain planning,
after-market pricing and inventory optimization. It counts many
Fortune India 100 companies as its customers.
- Supply Nexus, headquartered in Madrid and Barcelona, helps clients in Europe and Latin
America optimize their supply chains, from strategy
definition, infrastructure and process design, systems definition,
and software implementation.
- WCS, a leading advisory and digital supply chain
transformation consulting firm, based in Idaho. Focused on inventory reductions,
improved service levels and reduced cycle times, WCS customers span
aerospace to food manufacturers, semiconductors to pharmaceutical
and everything in between.
For more details about Kinaxis PartnerLink, please visit
Kinaxis.com/partners and for Kinaxis Planning One, visit
Kinaxis.com/planning-one.
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