Bristlecone & Oliver Wight Partner to Deliver High-End Supply Chain Solutions

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristlecone and Oliver Wight today formally announced their partnership which aims to provide customers with complementary solutions across technology transformation and process consulting areas in the supply chain domain. The partnership will deeply leverage Bristlecone's supply chain solutions technology expertise for application implementation and integration and Oliver Wight's business improvement expertise across Integrated Business Planning (next generation Sales & Operations Planning), to improve supply chain efficiencies. The joint offering spans Integrated Business Planning Diagnostic, Business Process Outsourcing for Oracle applications and Data Integration between Oracle and other legacy enterprise applications.

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The Bristlecone-Oliver Wight joint proposition will leverage products, solutions and services from both companies to enable customers with accelerated growth, mitigated risk, increased flexibility and lower costs.

"Bristlecone is excited to be partnering with Oliver Wight in the endeavor to provide incremental value to our supply chain customers," said Irfan Khan, vice president and general manager of Bristlecone Labs. "Together, Bristlecone and Oliver Wight are focused on enabling organizations to gain much more out of their Supply Chain and to utilize technology as a strategic asset for better business outcomes."

Expressing his confidence in the partnership Terry Johnson, principal, Oliver Wight said "We are pleased to collaborate with Bristlecone which is a leader in the Supply Chain Consulting space. Our complementary expertise will result in considerable benefits for customers. This partnership is a milestone and marks only the beginning of further endeavors."

Bristlecone is one of the industry's most trusted supply chain business advisors and solution providers while Oliver Wight is a leading business improvement specialist that educates, coaches and mentors people to lead and sustain change towards achieving business excellence and improved business performance.

About Bristlecone

Bristlecone, (www.bcone.com) is a leading consulting and systems integration firm focused on helping clients maximize the strategic value of their supply chains. Across over 100 engagements ranging from supply chain strategy and network design to supply chain system implementations, Bristlecone clients have realized the promise of the Bristlecone Advantage: value through focus; first-hand, real world experience; focus on business results; rapid time to value; and full accountability through fixed fee/fixed time service delivery. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CA, Bristlecone helps clients across North America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific regions realize high business impact from improved supply chain planning, sourcing, execution, analytics, and data management, and has been continually acknowledged by industry analysts as a leader in solutions for the extended supply chain. Bristlecone clients include globally recognized companies such as ABB, Applied Materials, BP, Exxon/Mobil, Freescale Semiconductor, HP, LSI, Mahindra & Mahindra, Qatar Petroleum, Petronas, Ranbaxy, Silicon Labs, Sony, Unilever and Whirlpool. For more information please visit www.bcone.com.

About Oliver Wight

Oliver Wight has been both a thought leader and hands-on practitioner for over 40 years. They are the recognized leaders when it comes to Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP). The largest worldwide consultancy of their type, they have offices throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia/Pacific. Oliver Wight coaches, mentors, and educators, originated the S&OP process and pioneered its early development and are continuously innovating and improving on these processes. Oliver Wight's approach is based on knowledge transfer and client ownership. Oliver Wight consultants have come out of industry with a wide variety of hands-on experience. Along with their courses, both public and private, their books written by the experts, their articles and case studies written by the experts and highlighting their clients' successes, Oliver Wight products and services can ensure a compressed time to benefit. The unique Oliver Wight Class A Checklist, in its 6th edition, is recognized worldwide as the standard for business excellence. Their focus is on Client Success: Business Excellence & Outstanding Performance. For more information, please visit www.oliverwight-americas.com.

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