Elemica Wins Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 Award

EXTON, PA--(Marketwired - Jun 17, 2014) - Elemica, the leading Supply Chain Operating Network provider for the process industries, announces winning the 2014 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100, an award by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine featuring the year's "100 Great Supply Chain Projects." This is Elemica's 2^nd consecutive win of this prestigious award honoring projects that best navigate the rapidly evolving challenges in today's complex market. A substantial project with Syngenta was chosen because they were able to utilize Elemica's powerful Supply Chain Operating Network to increase collaboration and automation across their extensive base of trading partners, which improved supply chain performance, reduced costs, and strengthened their customer and supplier relationships.

"In today's challenging environment, the supply chain performance of our clients becomes the key to their ability to create and maintain a competitive edge," said Rich Katz, CTO of Elemica. "Elemica's Supply Chain Operating Network not only gives Syngenta the ability to automate more business processes, increasing efficiencies and improving service levels as a result, but it now also becomes the foundation to their ability to deliver truly differentiated and individually tailored experience to their customers. We are pleased to once again win this significant award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive."

"Our readers count on Supply & Demand Chain Executive for intelligence and decision-making information on solutions and best practices for supply chain transformation," said Barry Hochfelder, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "With this year's Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100, we are featuring '100 Great Supply Chain Projects' that demonstrate the broad spectrum of opportunities for enabling excellence in the supply chain. The projects featured can serve as a roadmap for supply chain executives looking for new opportunities to drive improvement in their own operations."

Using Elemica, Syngenta and its trading partners each utilize any file format they need to communicate over the Supply Chain Operating Network, so that they can operate without changing their respective business operations. Syngenta believes their Electronics Documentation Communications hub is a critical part of their strategy for interaction with their customers globally. Elemica also enables Syngenta to easily add new trading partners to the network. This "Come As You Are" approach to integration means that companies don't have to change their internal processes or make costly technology investments in order to reap the advantages of a collaborative commerce network. Agnostic integration capabilities enable thousands of individual trading partners, and their respective enterprises, to seamlessly and efficiently conduct commerce at a scale significant enough to create real cost advantages while also improving their ability to delight their individual customers.

The 2014 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 are supply chain solution and service providers that are helping their customers and clients achieve supply chain excellence. They have produced measurable gains in ROI through cost-cutting, and increased efficiency, whether in warehouse, transportation, procurement sourcing or any other category in the end-to-end supply chain. Over 200 submissions were evaluated by the magazine's editorial staff primarily based on: ambitiousness/scope of the project (30 percent); creative application of technologies/solutions/services used (20 percent); extent of the business results/impact (40 percent); clarity of submission (10 percent).

After receiving nomination forms, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive editorial staff identified applicants that best fit the stated criteria for the 100. Final recipients will be featured with more detail in the cover story of the June 2014 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, as well as online.

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. On the Web: www.SDCExec.com.

About Elemica

Elemica's Supply Chain Operating Network is designed to give clients greater control over their global supply chains. Capturing transaction data, across all trading partners, and translating it into actionable information is key to driving value out of the supply chain. By combining powerful SmartLink business process applications with a robust QuickLink Network, Elemica solutions improve operational efficiency, lower costs, and decrease working capital. Founded in 2000, Elemica today processes approximately $250B in annual transactions across more than 6,500 process industry trading partners. Elemica's global operations are headquartered outside Philadelphia and include offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Frankfurt, London, Seoul, Singapore, and Tokyo. Clients include BASF, BP, Continental, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, LANXESS, Michelin, Shell, Solvay, Sumitomo Chemical, and Wacker. For more information, visit www.elemica.com.