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02 January 2012 TNT Express, ORTEC and Tilburg University finalists at the 2012 Edelman Award for achievement in Operations Research How Operations Research has become part of TNT Express’ DNA
The collaborative, supply chain-wide optimization efforts of TNT Express, ORTEC and Tilburg University have been officially recognized by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®). TNT Express has been shortlisted as a finalist at the 2012 Franz Edelman Award for its successful application of Operations Research in supply chain optimization. The use of Operations Research (applied mathematics for decision making) to analyze and enhance its transportation networks has allowed TNT Express to save costs, improve service to customers and develop managers’ skills on a global scale. Read more

23 December 2011 Celebrating Corporate Giving in Logistics The following article was written by Steve Banker and originally appeared on Logistics Viewpoints on 19 December 2011.

By Steve Banker - The Holidays are a time for giving. My posting today celebrates the best example of corporate giving that I came across in my travels this year. TNT, a large global provider of express deliveries, and ORTEC, a company that provides a logistics optimization and execution platform with advanced planning capabilities, are the two companies whose intelligent giving has helped to make the world a better place to live. Read more

22 December 2011 ORTEC sponsors family room at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital (JHA) ORTEC is delighted to be able to support the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in it's initiative to decorate a number of family rooms within the fantastic new hospital complex. Willem-Jan Verhoef, Healthcare Director at ORTEC, comments: "We are really pleased that we can get involved because the Jeroen Bosch Hospital is one of our most valuable and innovative customers." Read more

14 November 2011 New ORTEC system helps North Star Alliance to 'optimize the world' “This system enables us to select optimal Roadside Wellness Centres locations”
After successfully developing a client health registration system, ORTEC has now delivered a new application that will assist North Star Alliance in determining the optimal location and number of employees for its network of Roadside Wellness Centres (RWCs). The new solution is developed in cooperation with Paragon Decision Technology, using their mathematical optimization platform AIMMS. Read more

22 August 2011 ORTEC team awarded second place in AIMMS/MOPTA optimization modeling competition The final stage of the AIMMS modeling competition reached its conclusion at the 2011 MOPTA conference and the ORTEC team, from Gouda in the Netherlands, was awarded second place. Rianne Langenberg, one of the ORTEC team members, comments on this fantastic result: "It's an honor to reach the finalist stage and to come second out of a group of very competent fellow competitors." The ORTEC team is also made up of Harwin de Vries and Arno Witte, and advised by Cindy de Groot. All graduates are currently engaged in projects at the ORTEC Consulting Group, part of the ORTEC Group. Read more

05 August 2011 ORTEC Customers Selected by CIO Magazine Companies Recognized for Technology Innovations that Advance Business Results
ORTEC, a leading provider of advanced planning and optimization software solutions, announced today that multiple customers were included among the recipients of this year’s "CIO 100 Award" by CIO Magazine. Awarded annually at the CIO Symposium & Awards Ceremony, the CIO 100 award recognizes organizations that are demonstrating innovation to deliver business value. This can be achieved by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. Read more

06 April 2011 ORTEC selected as Awards Finalist for GBC’s 2011 Awards for Business Action on Health ORTEC Recognized for its Outstanding Contribution to the Business Fight for Global Health
ORTEC, a leading provider of advanced planning and optimization software solutions and consulting services, announced today that it has been selected as a finalist for the 2011 Global Business Coalition (GBC) Business Action on Health Awards. ORTEC was nominated for its contribution to optimizing the logistical processes of North Star Alliance, an organization established in 2006 to unite members of the transportation industry in responding to the AIDS pandemic in East and Southern Africa. Read more

07 March 2011 ORTEC's workforce scheduling solution achieves SAP NetWeaver recertification ORTEC's workforce scheduling solution, ORTEC Harmony, has successfully achieved SAP recertification. The software was first certified in 2007, after ORTEC Harmony was extended to include an interface with the SAP HR and SAP Payroll modules. This enables organizations that work with SAP to take advantage of the powerful planning support for workforce scheduling. The SAP certification, which requires renewal every three years, confirms that ORTEC Harmony meets the requirements for integration into an SAP solution-based environment. Read more

01 March 2011 Don Addington named Vice Chairman and Treasurer of Technology Association of Georgia Board 30-year Technology Veteran to Provide Strategic Guidance and Improvement of the Technology Industry By Supporting Georgia’s Companies
ORTEC, a leading provider of strategic, tactical and operational route planning and scheduling, services planning, and pallet and load building software solutions, announced today that Don Addington, President of the Americas, has been appointed as the Technology Association of Georgia's (TAG) Vice Chairman and Treasurer. Read more

18 February 2011 ORTEC intern triumphs in the "Battle of the Best Beta" ORTEC intern Rianne Langenberg and her team have triumphed in Plan Nederland's "Battle of the Best Beta”, a national competition in which beta (science) students from four different Dutch universities compete to win a trip to Zambia in Africa. Approximately 160 students across the Netherlands took part in the competition where they were tasked with developing a plan to accelerate and improve Plan Nederland's child sponsorship program. Read more

22 December 2010 ORTEC Extends Global Agreement with NAVTEQ Includes products such as NAVTEQ Transport™ and NAVTEQ Traffic Patterns™
NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data enabling navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world has extended its relationship with advanced planning and fleet optimisation specialist, ORTEC. The contract between the two companies will run until 2013 and now includes additional content. Read more

20 December 2010 ORTEC improves visualization with BeNomad ORTEC selected BeNomad as the new vendor to improve map visualization. ORTEC's Advanced Planning Solutions (APS) - for routing and scheduling - will be equiped with the BeNomad’s BeMap software, which results into improved maps display thanks to a seamless integration with ORTEC’s solution. Read more

04 December 2010 ORTEC customer apetito Wins Prestigious National Business Award apetito, an international company active in providing frozen food and catering solutions to Care Homes, Local Authorities and Hospitals with businesses in Germany, The Netherlands, France, the UK and Canada, were jubilant winners of the Blackberry Customer Focus category. As Trowbridge’s largest private employer, the judges felt the company exhibited a genuine enthusiasm for service quality that permeated the organisation from top to bottom. Read more

01 December 2010 ORTEC customers Unilever, Tesco, Coca-Cola Partner for Climate Protection The Consumer Goods Forum, a CEO-level organization of 400 global consumer goods manufacturers and retailers with combined revenue in excess of $2.8 trillion, announced two major initiatives on climate change at a recent meeting in Cancun: to work toward ending deforestation and to phase out the use of refrigerant gases with high global warming potential. Read more

23 November 2010 ORTEC employee appointed endowed professor at the Vrije University Amsterdam The Vrije University (VU) Amsterdam has appointed Dr. Joaquim A. S. Gromicho, R&D Algorithms manager at ORTEC, as endowed professor of Applied Optimization in Operations Research within the faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Read more

04 November 2010 ORTEC and Command Alkon strengthen relationship ORTEC and Command Alkon are pleased to announce a series of agreements that strengthen the relationship between the two companies. With these agreements, Command Alkon now becomes the exclusive provider of ORTEC optimization products to the construction materials industry.  The two companies will jointly develop ORTEC’s technology framework to the benefit of Command Alkon’s customers. Read more

20 August 2010 Team ORTEC wins AIMMS modeling competition Bethlehem, PA (USA) - Yesterday, the AIMMS modeling competition ended at MOPTA 2010 with announcing Team ORTEC (Gouda, The Netherlands) as the winner. Team ORTEC is formed by Cindy de Groot of VU Amsterdam, Ilse Louwerse of Erasmus University and Arjan Thomas of University Twente, advised by Ineke Meuffels (ORTEC and PhD student at University of Tilburg). Read more

27 July 2010 ORTEC Takes Lead in TAG Logistics Society Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Launches New Society – TAG Logistics
The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), a non-profit known for forging economic development in Georgia, today announces an industry peer networking and education group for Georgia logistics professionals—Logistics Society. The TAG Logistics Society has been launched to provide a networking environment for industry professionals to share insights and leading practices. ORTEC’s Bobby Miller will serve as chairman for the pivotal first year. Read more

16 April 2010 Lora Cecere - My Q1 2010 Picks Lora Cecere, former VP and Lead Analyst for Supply Chain and CPG industry with AMR Research, and now an independent analyst calling herself the Supply Chain Shaman, posted an update on her blog April 7th titled 'In Search of Cool'. In this article she listed the 4 solutions that she considers 'COOL' for Q1 2010 and ORTEC was included on this list.

Following is the text about ORTEC from the article. 

Lora Cecere - My Q1 2010 Picks

Without further ado, my picks for cool technologies for the first quarter of 2010 are:

Applied Predictive Technologies (APT): APT has brought science to demand sensing. The technology allows retailers and suppliers to test market scenarios in near real-time. The APT methodologies help companies to design tests–scientific definition of control and test stores– and track market acceptance of changes with the shopper (E.g. store formats, trade promotion effectiveness, display positioning, category lay-outs, etc). I love the scientific approach of store testing and the ability to get REAL data on consumer acceptance in near-real time. One retailer that I track evaluates the market baskets of store clusters every 15 minutes. Talk about KNOWING your shopper!

ORTEC
The Ortec technology fills the missing link between warehouse management (WMS) and order management (OMS). The software output is a floor plan for a truck– which pallets to put where in the truck, which pallets to turn, and which pallets to stack– to better enable truck utilization on loads that mix heavy and light products. It reduces damage and improves truck utlization. One client that I follow used Ortec to improve truck utilization by 10%. (However, MUM is the word for them because they want to keep it SECRET. ) A great technology to help consumer products companies improve sustainability, reduce unsaleable/return products or drive cost reduction initiatives.

SAS Forecasting/APO Integration: SAS has been quietly building a new approach to forecasting termed Demand-driven Forecasting. The technology has five advantages for companies seeking technologies to improve forecast accuracy.

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14 April 2010 ORTEC opens office in Sydney, Australia ORTEC, the leader in advanced planning and optimization solutions, announced today that it will be opening an office “down under”. The new office, ORTEC Australia & New Zealand (“ORTEC ANZ”), commences operations this month and allows ORTEC to better support its global customers in the region. The office will also tap into the strong market for logistics software in Australia, the first developed economy to emerge strongly from the global financial crisis. Read more

13 April 2010 ORTEC Selected as Top 40 Innovative Georgia Technology Company International Innovation and Success Earn ORTEC Top 40 Award

ORTEC, the leading advanced planning and optimization solutions Company, announced they have been selected as one of the Top 40 Innovative Technology companies in Georgia by the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the State’s leading technology organization. The Technology Summit was held March 24 at the Cobb Galleria Centre.  Read more

01 April 2010 ORTEC is now member of Supply Chain Council Recently ORTEC has become a member of the Supply Chain Council. The Supply Chain Council (SCC, www.supply-chain.org) is a global non-profit association whose methodology, diagnostic and benchmarking tools help nearly a thousand organizations make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. SCC has established the supply chain world’s most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and their performance. The framework—the SCOR® process reference model—lets companies quickly determine and compare the performance of supply chain and related operations within their company or against other companies. Read more

23 February 2010 ORTEC continues to expand Despite the global economic recession, ORTEC, the market leader in Advanced Planning Software, continued to be successful during previous year. Also in 2009 many companies, most of which are international, chose ORTEC as their new supplier of planning software. This led to an annual increase in revenues at ORTEC of almost 10%. Furthermore, in 2009 ORTEC won the Netherlands Logistics Award in addition to other accolades and several international magazines, such as Inbound Logistics and Consumer Goods Technology, paid tribute yet again to ORTEC as a market leader. Read more

17 February 2010 ORTEC Garners Readers Choice Award Consumer Goods Technology Editors Cite ORTEC for the 2010 Annual Award

ATLANTA, GA February 17, 2010 - ORTEC, the leading advanced planning and optimization solutions company, announced they were selected for inclusion in the January 2010 Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) Readers Choice Awards for the fourth consecutive year. Selected for the Editors' Pick section, ORTEC was recognized as a supplier that offers business-to-business planning and optimization solutions that enable improved performance accross the supply chain. Read more

01 February 2010 ORTEC acquires BlueKaizen to strengthen position in France ORTEC, the leader in advanced planning and optimization solutions, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of BlueKaizen. BlueKaizen, part of the French MASA Group, focuses on optimization software for waste management and the field services industry. Read more