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Demand Management
Consumer Packaged Goods
Procter & Gamble Co. (www.pg.com) has selected Optiant (www.optiant.com) to deliver its multi-echelon optimization and inventory placement supply chain strategy, PowerChain Inventory. Optiant's PowerChain Suite is targeted to help P&G streamline inventory targets across its diverse product lines. "The software's multi-echelon approach gives us end-to-end visibility into our supply network to ensure we make informed inventory recommendations and deliver products both efficiently and with quality," said Aron Olegnowicz, P&G's director of Global Supply Network Solutions.

Fulfillment/Logistics
Interanational Breweries
Heineken USA (www.heineken.com) has announced the selection of the Port of Savannah, Ga., as the site of its newest demand point center based on a strategic review of the company's supply chain activities both for its current activities and to meet management's 10-year growth vision. The company will now rely on six demand point facilities to support its distributor network across the country. Through the company's supply chain evolution, Heineken USA has been able to reduce costs for the company and its network of distributors while also providing an enhanced service model. While importing product from breweries thousands of miles away, Heineken USA has been able to reduce order lead time from brewery to store shelf from 10 weeks in 1996 to seven days presently. Heineken USA has chosen Satellite Logistics Group (www.slg.com) to manage its product distribution operations at the new demand point.

SOLUTIONS UPDATE

Sourcing/Procurement
On-demand spend management firm Ketera (www.ketera.com) has debuted a new supply base management solution aimed at providing both buyer- and supplier-facing tools to help companies drive efficiency and predictability from their investments in new or existing sourcing and procure-to-pay applications. Ketera said that the new Supplier Connect is intended to improve supplier on-boarding to help drive electronic procure-to-pay transactions through Ketera or third-party procurement applications. As a result, procurement departments can accelerate the speed at which end-users adapt to new initiatives or sources of supply, and expand spend under management, Ketera said.