Bristlecone Launches Oracle Value Chain Planning Practice

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristlecone, one of the industry's most trusted supply chain business advisors and solution providers, today announced that it has partnered with Oracle to offer Oracle Value Chain Planning solutions to customers. Bristlecone will leverage its deep domain knowledge in Demand & Supply management, Sales & Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning, arising from years of experience advising clients and delivering solutions, to help Oracle customers get maximum value from their supply chains. In addition to traditional consulting and systems integration services, Bristlecone will also offer BPO services based on the Value Chain Planning product set, and has signed a BPO partnership with Oracle.

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"Oracle chose to partner with Bristlecone for its strong specialization in the extended Value Chain domain and its experience with multiple ERP systems. With this partnership, Bristlecone is also one of Oracle's key designated global solutions provider for hosted, full BPO deployment of the VCP suite. With their breadth and depth of capabilities, we believe Bristlecone is the ideal partner for customers that want to quickly achieve ROI and really 'Power Up' their planning processes, impacting their top and bottom lines," said Oracle's Guy Yehiav, VP – Value Chain Planning and the co-founder of Demantra.

"We are delighted to bring our recognized domain knowledge in Supply Chain Management to Oracle," said Irfan Khan, Vice President & General Manager of Bristlecone Labs. "We will be able to offer Oracle clients a powerful combination of subject matter expertise and integration frameworks – built on integration technology from Oracle – that enable seamless connectivity to other ERP systems. This partnership is the first step in our evolution towards our larger goal of addressing client and market needs across the entire value chain."

Bristlecone's Oracle practice will help clients design optimized value chain planning processes, configure and implement systems to enable these processes on the Oracle platform, integrate these systems to clients' ERP and other systems, and provide both applications management and business process outsourcing services on an ongoing basis.

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 has delivered the desired business impact for its clients. 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 are some of the tenets of Bristlecone's commitment to its clients. 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, Georgia Pacific, HP, LSI, Mahindra & Mahindra, Qatar Petroleum, Petronas, Ranbaxy, Silicon Labs, Sony, Unilever and Whirlpool. For more information please visit www.bcone.com.

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