Elemica Client Wins Prestigious Manufacturing Award Based on Progressive Concept Project

Elemica Recognized as Tech partner of Managing Automation's Progressive Manufacturing 50 Award Recipient

Exton, PA - December 8, 2008 - Elemica, the industry-leading business process network for the external supply chain, announces that their client, Eka Chemicals, Inc., one of the world's leading manufacturers of bleaching and performance chemicals for the pulp and paper industry, recently won the prestigious Progressive Manufacturing Award (PM50) from Managing Automation magazine. Eka Chemicals, a subsidiary of Akzo Nobel, was chosen out of a substantial number of nominees for their OneEPI (Eka Process Information) Project, a process information environment that is standardized across its global operations. Elemica’s B2B platform provides connections to Eka’s customers, automating paper-based processes for vendor-managed inventory (VMI), optimizing the entire order process.

 

"Elemica’s Connected Solution allows us to leverage customers already connected to the network, and to easily add new customers,” said Stefan Malmsten, industrial IT manager for Eka Chemicals. “And Elemica’s global platform enables us to significantly improve the inventory management process which directly impacts our customer satisfaction." Elemica also received an award and recognition as a tech partner to Eka Chemicals on the OneEPI Concept project. Elemica’s Connected Solution automates and streamlines business processes such as VMI and order management, allowing companies to easily transact with customers and business partners. A diverse group of customers in Europe, North, and South America and Asia are benefiting from Eka Chemicals’ progressive and centralized approach. Through their process information environment, which includes Elemica’s Connected Solution, Eka Chemicals has gained greater inventory visibility, and the company has streamlined and automated the VMI process, making it scalable without additional resources. "Eka Chemicals has truly achieved operational excellence within their business operations, and we are proud to have been part of this project,” said Mike McGuigan, CEO and president, Elemica. “We congratulate Eka Chemicals on this great recognition." The PM50 Awards recognize leading manufacturing companies who have mastered at least one of eight core disciplines defined by Managing Automation as critical to business success in the years ahead: Leadership, Operational Excellence, Business Model, Customer, Data and Integration, Innovation, Supply Network, and Training and Education.