Barloworld Supply Chain Software

Barloworld Supply Chain Software is a world class supply chain planning company, providing expertise, tools and solutions to help companies optimise their supply chain networks, inventory and transportation.

It has over 20 years' experience in supply chain planning, with more than 400 software installations across over 600 international clients, supported from offices in the UK, South Africa, U.A.E, Spain, China and the USA, and partners worldwide.

Barloworld Supply Chain Software provides planning software and methodologies to support supply chain efficiency and continuous performance improvement. It offers global solutions in:

• Network design — optimising the warehouse and transportation infrastructure.
• Demand planning and forecasting — multi-level forecasting for complex environments.
• Inventory management — inventory planning and order execution.
• Inventory strategy — optimising inventory across the multi-echelon supply chain.
• Integrated demand and supply planning — on-demand risk management
• Carbon emissions optimisation — measuring and optimising the carbon footprint of the supply chain.
• Transportation management — managing a company's transportation planning and execution.

Barloworld Supply Chain Software is part of the Logistics arm of Barloworld Plc, a South African multinational with over 18,900 employees and a turnover of more than $5.5 billion.

For further information please visit www.barloworldscs.com

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)

CSC's Federal Consulting Practice is a dedicated management consulting group that provides CSC's federal government clients with business management expertise. This practice provides specialized business and technology consultants who can look into the specifications of a program from multiple perspectives, understand the complexity of the issues and then design comprehensive solutions that support business needs and optimize technical infrastructure.

The Federal Consulting Practice offers federal customers the knowledge and experience to implement technology solutions and then leverage them as an enabler to improve operating performance. Federal Consulting Practice provides customers with front-end consulting services, from vision and strategy development to business case and policy impact analysis. In addition, the practice offers deep strategic expertise in functional areas and the service oriented architecture, enterprise transformation and technology solutions that support them.

EXA Corporation

EXA Corporation, founded in 1987, is a system integrator capitalized by 51% Japan-IBM and by 49% JFE-Steel. EXA acquired manufacturing business knowledge as a user and system development experiences as an integrator, and inherited the strength of IBM, as a world-leading computer system professional. This has made EXA an excellent integrated solution provider.

EXA can provide integrated solutions for manufacturing, distribution, finance and public sector, and also cross-industrial solutions such as ERP, NMS, security, EIP and CMS etcetera.

EXA optimizes the customers' value chain by dynamically combining the engineering of the supply chain and PLM (product lifecycle management) through multi-vendor services, which has established high customers' satisfaction.

EXA's alliance with Kinaxis RapidResponse will continue to contribute to solving our customers' business problems and realizing business innovations.

JFE Systems, Inc.

JFE Systems is a spin-off from JFE Steel, one of the largest steel companies in the world. Known for its reliable service and support for more than 20 years, JFE Systems specializes in providing leading companies advanced business application, supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management and B2B/e-business systems. Its global clients include leading automotive, high tech, process industry, telecommunications, finance & banking, insurance, consumer packaged goods, public and utility services including Toyota, Mazda, Sanyo Electric, Seiko Epson, Ricoh, Omron, Nippon Oil, JFE steel, NTT, KDDI, Mizuho Bank and Mitsubishi Tokyo Bank. The company is traded on the 2nd section of Tokyo Stock Exchange under the code "4832".