By Anne Widjaja
SAP-based supply chain integration solution provider FourPL has signed on as a new reseller and services partner for ORTEC for the Australia and New Zealand region.
ORTEC provides supply chain planning and optimisation software, and its ORTEC LEO (Logistics Execution Optimiser) solution is directly integrated in SAP ERP.
FourPL will provide SAP ANZ customers with the ORTEC LEO optimisation solutions for carton, pallet, load and vehicle optimisation, and route optimisation.
The company plans to target support industries with a core focus around manufacturing and distribution of products, such as CPG/FMCG, manufacturing, retail distribution, mining, and logistics providers.
Alan Thomas, joint managing director, ORTEC ANZ, said FourPL and ORTEC have worked together to produce a series of specific products around SAP supply chain optimisation.
“These products assist customers in driving improved productivity and utilisation of assets through the planning and execution processes around product distribution,” said Thomas.
Anthony Hawkins, chief executive officer, FourPL, believes the partnership will help customers to manage rising distribution costs.
“Customers in the Australian and New Zealand markets are being forced to do more with increasing distribution costs, together with the retail sector growth in online sales and related increases in distribution requirements,” said Hawkins.
“We can now deliver further productivity and efficiency gains to customers, with significant savings through more accurate transport planning.”
Hawkins said that joining forces with ORTEC would allow FourPL to add value to their focus on delivering packaged solutions to SAP customers. FourPL will help customers to “optimise their supply chain execution processes” using ORTEC soutions, as well as provide support for their “existing offerings around SAP warehousing and transport management”.
