FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mary Kelly, Media Relations
Phone: 609-252-8160
E-mail:kelly@alk.com
Fax: 609-252-8166
ALK Technologies and LLamasoft Announce Strategic Alliance
Princeton, NJ – Ann Arbor, MI – June 16, 2008 - ALK Technologies, developers of PC*MILER® Solutions, and LLamasoft, Inc., the leading provider of supply chain network design software, today announced a strategic alliance aimed at providing enhanced supply chain network design and analysis solutions. PC*MILER, the transportation and logistics industry's leading routing, mileage, and mapping software solution, has now been fully integrated into LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™ .
The alliance with ALK gives the Supply Chain Guru™ user community an industry-accepted means to accurately calculate freight miles for all global regions, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Additionally, PC*MILER provides everything from dock-to-dock driving directions over truck-specific routes to optimal routes for hazardous materials.
“As fuel costs continue to rise, our users are requiring more precision in their freight routing and optimization models” stated Toby Brzoznowski, LLamasoft Vice President of Sales. “We are also seeing a continued focus on globalization and low-cost country sourcing, so our integration with the PC*MILER Product Line gives our users a new and necessary level of detail for global freight analysis.”
“ALK is very pleased to integrate with LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™. This partnership brings the proven capabilities of PC*MILER into the logistics planning process to help foresee problems and save valuable investment resources before a single shipment is made -- just as it circumnavigates problems and saves resources for so many actual shipments everyday, around the world,” said Roy Schijns, Vice President, Sales for ALK’s PC*MILER Solutions.
For more information on ALK’s PC*MILER and LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™ , visit: www.pcmiler.com and www.llamasoft.com/guru.html.
About ALK Technologies
Since 1979, ALK Technologies has developed innovative mobile navigation and transportation technology solutions. ALK's award-winning CoPilot Live GPS software is the navigation based services platform of choice for mobile operators, hardware OEMs and systems integrators globally. ALK's PC*MILER routing, mileage and mapping solutions are used by over 22,000 transportation, logistics and manufacturing companies worldwide.
For more information on ALK Technologies, visit: www.alk.com or www.alk.eu.com.
About LLamasoft
LLamasoft provides software and expertise to design and modify supply chain network operations. Supply Chain Guru™ is the leading supply chain strategic planning application available in the market today. It enables companies to model their supply chain operations, optimize the structure for cost and profitability, and simulate proposed changes, allowing users to implement their changes with confidence.
Clients use LLamasoft’s Supply Chain Guru™ to identify major financial and operational improvements in transportation, inventory, sourcing, and production applications.
The privately-held company, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was founded in 1998 as the first company to combine enterprise-level simulation with full-feature network and inventory optimization within a single modeling structure.
For more information, visit: www.LLamasoft.com or contact: info@LLamasoft.com.
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