Kinaxis and Deloitte Join Forces to Provide Supply Chain Management Cloud Solutions

OTTAWA, May 3, 2016

"Enterprises today need a comprehensive global supply chain strategy coupled with deep industry knowledge and the technology to support the organization's vision," said John Sicard, chief executive officer for Kinaxis. "By teaming with Deloitte, our customers benefit from Deloitte's worldwide presence as well as cross-industry and country-specific supply chain expertise. The alliance between our two organizations will enable supply chain transformations at some of the largest companies in the world."

Deloitte is a recognized leader in supply chain management, providing advisory services that optimize, reinvent and improve the supply chain from end-to-end, including develop, plan, source, make and deliver. Deloitte helps its clients tackle their most complex issues by drawing on global capabilities that span all areas of business strategy and operations.

"With our clients facing changing market demands in supply chain, it's important we provide holistic solutions that bring together leading industry business practices with key technology solutions to improve performance," said Ken Olsen, director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, and supply chain planning market offering leader. "Our integrated Kinaxis solution, with in-memory processing, provides critical capabilities for our clients."

Kinaxis RapidResponse provides a single product that powers the underlying capabilities essential to balancing demand and supply across an enterprise. The cloud-based platform offers a standard foundation on which many business applications — such as supply chain planning, demand management, S&OP, supplier collaboration — can be deployed. With RapidResponse, customers gain a comprehensive view across the global supply chain network to make informed strategic decisions.

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