Production planning solution to drive continuous improvement at leading United Kingdom boiler manufacturer
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(March 24, 2016)--DynaSys, a leading provider of demand and supply chain planning solutions, today announced that Vaillant Industrial, part of the Vaillant Group, one of Europe's leading heating and boiler manufacturing companies, will implement the DynaSys Cloud Production Planning solution to improve its manufacturing planning process. DynaSys is a division of QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB).
"Working with DynaSys is a huge leap forward, said Vaillant Industrials Head of Supply Chain, Adrian Ancliff. Implementing DynaSys Production Planning gives us a more advanced system that delivers what we need to successfully future proof our business model while giving us the agility to adapt quickly to ongoing change.
The Vaillant Group was founded in 1874 and is currently the second-largest company in the European heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry. Its core business centers on the development and distribution of energy-saving, environmentally friendly heating systems and water heaters based on natural gas and renewable energy sources. An estimated 30 million households worldwide use Vaillant Group technology.
After thoroughly investigating several demand and supply chain vendors, Vaillant chose DynaSys because it provides:
- A comprehensive production planning tool.
- The ability to easily incorporate DynaSys Demand Planning in the future.
- The best deployment model (Cloud) for their business.
- A structured Easy On Boarding project methodology that provides the ability to start simply and grow quickly.
We are pleased to add the Vaillant Industrial Belper site to our community of DynaSys users, said DynaSys Managing Director Ariel Weil. By working collaboratively with Vaillant stakeholders, and by engaging our services division early in the sales cycle, we were able to learn the unique complexities of their business and demonstrate how our Production Planning solution could help them to streamline their manufacturing. We were also able to show them how implementing DynaSys Demand Planning would help to further modernize their supply chain and reduce their costs.
About Vaillant
The Vaillant Group is a global family-owned company that develops highly efficient products and solutions for heating, cooling and hot water. The company employs over 12,000 people worldwide and generates an annual turnover of approximately 2.3 billion euros. This makes the Vaillant Group the second-largest company in its sector in Europe. This family-owned company is a global market leader in the wall-hung boiler segment. The Groups activities focus on the development of green products, and energy-saving and environmentally friendly products in particular, with the aim of achieving sustainable and profitable growth. The Vaillant Groups headquarters are located in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company is still one-hundred per cent family owned today.
About DynaSys Effective Enterprise Demand and Supply Chain Planning
DynaSys, a division of QAD Inc. (Nasdaq: QADA) (Nasdaq: QADB), provides Demand and Supply Chain Planning solutions. With 30 years of experience, DynaSys provides an integrated and collaborative planning solution that allows businesses to optimize their supply chains, including sales and operations planning, demand planning, and network, inventory and business resources optimizations. DynaSys software enables customers and partners in the consumer goods, life sciences, food and beverage, high tech, automotive, distribution and wholesale verticals to meet their goals of better managing Demand and Supply Chain Planning, and becoming more Effective Enterprises.
For more information about DynaSys, visit www.dys.com or email contact@dys.com.
About QAD The Effective Enterprise
QAD Inc. (Nasdaq:QADA) (Nasdaq:QADB) is a leading provider of enterprise software and services designed for global manufacturing companies. For more than 35 years, QAD has provided global manufacturing companies with QAD Enterprise Applications, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that supports operational requirements, including financials, manufacturing, demand and supply chain planning, customer management, business intelligence and business process management. QAD Enterprise Applications is offered in flexible deployment models in the cloud, on-premise, or in a blended environment. With QAD, customers and partners in the automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial products and life sciences industries can better align daily operations with their strategic goals to meet their vision of becoming more Effective Enterprises.
For more information about QAD, call +1 805-566-6000, visit www.qad.com.
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