European Pharma-Chemicals Leader Selects Adexa to Optimize Its Supply Chain

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - July 21, 2009) - Adexa, Inc., the global provider of profit-driven supply chain planning solutions, announced today that Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world's 20 leading pharmaceutical companies, has selected and started the implementation of Adexa's Collaborative Operations Planning and Supply Chain Performance Management solutions. Through this initiative, Boehringer Ingelheim is focusing specifically on worldwide alignment of inventory and capacity utilization to match customer demand, while increasing supply chain visibility.

For Boehringer Ingelheim's supply chain team it was imperative to create 'one plan' for all the major stakeholders in their supply chain, including the strategic suppliers. Also, Boehringer Ingelheim wanted to manage their financial performance into the future. Adexa was picked because of its unique capability to tie end-to-end S&OP Planning and financials together.

The complexity of Boehringer Ingelheim's supply chain has increased as product variety increased and global interactions between the plants became more intricate. As a result of this initiative, Boehringer Ingelheim expects to decrease inventory, while improving its capacity utilization, and lower costs.

"Boehringer Ingelheim put our team through a very rigorous evaluation process," said Cyrus Hadavi, President and CEO of Adexa. "But we appreciate their efforts since we now have the reaffirmation of our solutions' fit, to this large and multifaceted industry, by one of its most respected members."

For more information about Adexa, and its advanced enterprise planning solutions, visit www.adexa.com.

About Boehringer Ingelheim

Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim operates globally with 138 affiliates in 47 countries and 41,300 employees. Since it was founded in 1885, the independent, family-owned company has been committed to researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing novel products of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. For more information, visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.com.

About Adexa

Since 1994, some of the most visionary companies in the world run their supply chains on Adexa. Its Profit-Driven solutions uniquely combine and link together demand, supply, and operational planning with financial optimization -- because every decision affects the bottom-line. As a Result, Adexa clients are the best-in-class when it comes to cost and inventory management, productivity, customer service and revenue generation. That includes such global leaders as Johnson & Johnson, Morton Salt, CF-Industries, Firmenich, NEC, Columbian Chemicals, Samsung, Siemens, and Unilever.