Elemica, a leading provider of supply chain integration and optimization services to the chemical, tire and rubber, energy, and selected manufacturing industries, introduces the Elemica Transportation Management solution (ETM), a business process outsourcing (BPO) service "Powered by Oracle" and based on Oracle Transportation Management.
Available as a subscription offering, the new service will help customers to rapidly optimize logistics and transportation processes resulting in significant savings. Moreover, built-in chemical industry and logistics best practices will help customers accelerate their return on investment. Elemica is a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN).
"Supply chain teams face major challenges to manage complexity and variability on a continuous basis,” says Mike McGuigan, chief executive officer of Elemica. “Factors such as high upfront costs, complex implementations, lack of connectivity, difficulty with integration, and lack of in-house resources have delayed the ROI and made the business case for TMS difficult to justify for some organizations. With the Elemica Transportation Management solution, we are delivering a solution that breaks down these barriers to help our customers achieve significant benefits faster and with reduced cost and risk."
A Gartner October 2011 report entitled, "Complex, Constrained and Undervalued: A Look Inside Chemical and Process Industry Supply Chain Logistics," mentions that "the transportation software solution space has been slow to develop holistic solutions for the chemical and process manufacturing industries." It goes on to discuss the SaaS business model. "These are solution options that companies in the chemical industry seem to have been waiting for, and should evaluate for implementation."
More information on the Elemica Transportation Management solution can be found on our website: www.elemica.com.