The 2010 CSCO Summit sponsors include:
Cisco Systems Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks.
Manufacturers need solutions that intelligently connect all parts of the value chain so that they can share information with every department, employee, partner, and customer quickly and easily. Cisco Smart+Connected Manufacturing solutions fundamentally change the competitive landscape for manufacturers by providing intelligent, timely information and collaboration capabilities in context, continuous innovation, a differentiated customer experience, supply chain agility and operational excellence.
IBM
IBM Business Analytics and Performance Management. IBM Cognos business intelligence and performance management software solutions deliver thousands of manufacturing companies worldwide solutions to improve service levels, gain visibility into revenue and profitability performance, control costs and better manage extended and complex supply chains.
IBM Cognos solutions bring together technology, analytical applications, best practices, and a broad network of partners to give customers an open, adaptive and complete performance solution. Over 23,000 customers in more than 135 countries around the world choose IBM Cognos solutions.
Take a fast start – IBM provides a suite of Performance Blueprints to help manufacturers quickly address planning and performance management process areas that need attention. IBM Cognos Performance Blueprints consist of targeted, pre-built data, process, and policy models based on proven on proven best practices in manufacturing operations, sales, marketing and finance.
Info on www.ibm.com/cognos/manufacturing
Kinaxis
Kinaxis™ helps manufacturers manage increasing business complexity and achieve operations performance breakthroughs with its proven solution for demand and supply chain planning, monitoring and response.
Kinaxis RapidResponse is an on-demand service that enables collective risk tradeoff and response to change by empowering front-line decision makers with integrated tools for supply chain visibility, demand management, supply management, sales and operations planning (S&OP) and supply chain risk management.
Global leaders such as Casio, Jabil, Qualcomm, and Raytheon are realizing superior customer satisfaction and a competitive advantage with RapidResponse. For more information, visit http://www.kinaxis.com/ or the Kinaxis blog at http://www.21stcenturysupplychain.com/.
GXS
GXS is a global B2B e-commerce and integration services company providing solutions to over 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Through the company’s key offerings, GXS Trading Grid® and GXS Managed Services, we enable simplified document exchange, enhanced supply chain visibility and streamlined communications with trading partners.
Our cloud computing platform, GXS Trading Grid, eliminates the ongoing complexities and costs of do-it-yourself B2B integration. GXS Managed Services enables customers to offload complex B2B e-commerce requirements to GXS, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, increased revenue and lower total cost of operations. GXS enables businesses to streamline new product launches, digitize accounts payable, automate warehouse receiving, conduct e-invoicing and e-payments and increase global supply chain visibility.
GXS enables its customers to become Active Businesses, where information flows freely throughout a company’s supply chain. By strategically leveraging this information, they gain an extraordinary competitive advantage.
Based in Gaithersburg, Md., GXS has an extensive global network and has local offices in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. GXS can be found on the Web at http://www.gxs.com, http://blogs.gxs.com and http://twitter.com/GXS.
E2open
E2open is the leading provider of integrated demand-supply network solutions designed to improve visibility, collaboration, and control across multiple tiers of trading partners.
E2open delivers a complete, SaaS-based solution, including software, deployment, operations, and partner community management that easily connects to systems of record such as ERPs, PDMs, or advanced supply chain planning applications.
E2open drives major improvements across all key demand and supply network performance metrics, resulting in significant cost savings and customer service improvements. Customers span a range of industries and include The Boeing Company, Celestica, Cisco, Dell, Hitachi, IBM, LSI Corporation, Panasonic, Philips, Seagate Technology, Spansion, Vodafone, and Wistron.
GT Nexus
GT Nexus runs the world’s only industry-backed, on-demand global trade and logistics portal. Today, more than 40,000 registered users, from over 15,000 organizations use a range of capabilities on the portal to optimize the global flow of goods and trade information from order point to final payment.
GT Nexus connects the physical and financial supply chains. This allows buyers, sellers, banks and logistics providers to work over a common platform with a core set of information that supports multiple trade and logistics functions. Customers include Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Case New Holland, Caterpillar, Philips, ZARA (Inditex), The Home Depot and Xerox . For information, visit www.gtnexus.com.
J.P. Morgan
Global Trade, a unit of J.P. Morgan’s Treasury Services business, provides innovative and market-leading classical trade, structured trade finance and supply chain solutions to corporations and financial institutions worldwide.
J.P. Morgan Treasury Services is a top-ranked, full-service global provider of innovative payment, collection, liquidity management, trade finance, commercial card and information solutions to corporations, financial institutions, middle market companies, small businesses, governments and municipalities. With more than 50,000 clients and a presence in 39 countries, J.P. Morgan Treasury Services is the world’s largest provider of treasury management services and a division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., member FDIC. More information can be found at jpmorgan.com/ts.
BT
BT is a global telecommunications services provider, helping multi-site enterprises to improve the efficiency with which they communicate. Active in the manufacturing sector for decades, manufacturing companies worldwide use BT to provide employees and partners with access to critical applications.
Through our Digital Networked Manufacturing strategy BT works with clients to harmonise and align their IT infrastructure with business goals so that the telecommunications network becomes an enabler of the lean, globalized, outsourced and pull-driven operations and strategies that leading manufacturers are embracing.
