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100 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2015

Company:ORTEC

Description:Provider of advanced planning and optimization solutions and services.

Key Person:Bobby Miller, Global Consumer Goods Strategist

Website:www.ortec.com

ORTEC

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The enormous inflow and outflow of data is a quotidian trend for companies, regardless of their size and industrial operation. Data is paramount in decision-making and deriving desired business outcomes. In

the realm of highly competitive business arena, there is a huge demand for tools that can effortlessly simplify the herculean task of managing, predicting, integrating, and analyzing data—both financial and enterprise—across various levels in an organization setting. SAP stands in this ecosystem as a leader in offering effective and the most befitting solutions that guarantee consistency of data, empowering enterprises to perform and deliver better results. SAP’s offerings are being adopted not only by leading large enterprises, but also by small and mid-size companies to optimize their resources.

With its vast suite of solutions that span Business All-in-One, Business ByDesign, Business One, Business Suite, and mySAP, SAP allows companies to step forward and build tools to integrate SAP ideas into different business verticals. The enterprise software giant’s applications are now helping organizations to achieve greater productivity and faster time to market, while decreasing operational cost and expanding the customer base. Further, developments in mobility, cloud and analytics are enabling new business scenarios and extending the reach of SAP applications to business users. SAP is now offering updated capabilities for enterprises seeking insight into large volumes of data—such as from the Internet of Things—while a new Edge edition of SAP's

Lumira tool targets businesses with data-discovery features.With the market embracing different modules of the software,

the demand for interaction and collaboration between application suites to streamline business is rising. Most SAP providers are therefore offering integrated solutions that could be deployed on-premise as well as through private cloud placement, sensing the need of enterprises.

These myriad innovation calls for experts to transform SAP software and technologies into solutions that addresses strategic business needs. This is where SAP solution and consulting companies play the role of a propeller to drive enterprises to achieve excellence. The expertise of the companies to provide right data at the right time enables the marketplace to acquire sustainability, f lexibility and succeed through innovation.

Amidst these developments, to help CIOs find the right SAP Solution Provider for their enterprises, a distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, VCs, analysts and the CIO Review editorial board has selected top players from over thousand SAP solution providers. The companies listed here demonstrate an ability to develop innovative technologies, methodologies, and outstanding customer service, while helping CIOs realign their IT strategy directly with that of the business.

In our selection, we looked at the vendor’s capability to fulfill the burning need for cost-effective and flexible solutions that add value to the complex SAP landscape. We present to you CIO Review’s 100 Most Promising SAP Solution Providers 2015.

ORTECDrive Growth with Predictive Commerce

Bobby Miller, ORTEC Global Consumer Goods Strategist, relishes balancing being a marathon runner and jazz musician with delivering innovative software solutions that help companies better predict

and drive growth. At ORTEC, he focuses not on sprinting, but on establishing long term partnerships with customers and delivering what customers want most, demonstrable and quantifiable results. The supply chain is the heartbeat of the company. ERP companies such as SAP are excellent at helping a company run their business end-to-end. ORTEC integrates directly in SAP, filling the gaps, providing real-time support for shipping and logistics scheduling.

The ORTEC Predictive Commerce Platform solves sophisti-cated problems by helping companies predict and optimize the

supply chain. “The ORTEC platform helps customers better pre-dict business outcomes and optimize their supply chain,” states Miller. “We are revolutionizing the way companies see, plan and execute their demand-to-delivery supply chain.” ORTEC pro-vides optimization solutions and consulting services to compa-nies worldwide. Its products and services result in optimal fleet routing and dispatch, vehicle and pallet loading, workforce sched-uling, forecasting, inventory planning, warehouse control and overall supply chain network design. Its solutions enable real-time supply chain visibility and improve efficiencies for customers, re-sulting in lower operating costs and increased revenues.

ORTEC is a Platinum Certified SAP Partner and the ORTEC Load Building is directly integrated in SAP ERP enabling planning the entire distribution schedule with a single application. Powerful opti-mization algorithms for load building and routing enhance SAP performance exponentially. The com-pany also provides complex order picking and ware-house processes for SAP. The SAP certified add-on, ORTEC Mobile Logistics Solutions (MLS), is fully integrated into the SAP Logistics Execution System (LES) and expands the warehouse management components by intro-

ducing supplemental warehouse processes. ORTEC provides customers with support in configuring their

warehouse processes using SAP’s Extended Warehouse Man-agement (EWM). ORTEC SAP consultants are specialists in the implementation of efficient logistics processes in SAP Supply Chain Execution (SCE) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) applications. ORTEC offers the only solution on the market that simultaneously optimizes the route deliveries and builds pallets and truckloads in one solve.

Transportation logistics are becoming increasingly complex. Companies are struggling to manage large amounts of data. Sup-ply Chain Insights Founder, Lora Cecere describes this challenge well, “A Supply Chain is a complex system with complex process-es with increasing complexity.” ORTEC helps manage complexity with a predictive commerce strategy for the supply chain. It helps companies connect upstream demand sensing with downstream supply chain planning and execution, in a single, optimized sys-tem of record.

How P&G Reduced Delivery Costs GloballyORTEC is helping P&G achieve a corporate goal to reduce global delivery costs by 10 percent, by 2020. Leveraging ORTEC’s SAP load building solution, they were able to maximize truckload cube and weight utilization and increase route efficiency as well as reduce transportation costs significantly, all in a standardized global template. ORTEC’s SAP embedded optimization and 3D load building solution has allowed P&G to increase load utiliza-tion anywhere from five to 15 percent depending on the country as well as decrease overall truck freight spend.

With increasing pressure on streamlining logistics and in-creasing business efficiencies, information technology demands are constantly evolving. Moving forward, ORTEC is focused on further developing their solutions to scale to even more complex problems. “Our predictive commerce platform provides compa-

nies with better insights and we are pushing the envelope to de-velop even smarter algorithms that learn,” concludes Miller.

The ORTEC Solution• Designs strategic networks to balance cost and improve margins• Reduces inventory and transportation cost to increase

working capitol• Integrates inventory management strategies

with routing assets to increase asset utiliza-tion. • Manages e-commerce order fulfillment requirements.

We are pushing the envelope to develop smarter algorithms that learn and adapt to consumerbehaviors

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