SAILS 21TM Optimization Software Secures Market Leadership,
Best Serves Top Global Firms
Manassas, VA. -- January 24, 2001 -- INSIGHT, Inc., the leading
provider of optimization-based planning and scheduling systems for attaining
best solutions for the world's top companies, announces enhancements to its
flagship product, SAILSTM(Strategic Analysis of Integrated Logistics System).
New features of SAILS 21TM (Second Millennium) add ease,
flexibility, and speed that continue to justify INSIGHTâs 40% market share
among top global firms. Distinctive
SAILS 21 features include: seamless and automatic integration with Microsoft
ExcelTMand ACCESSTM; a new interface with an Optimization Dashboard and Model
Development Wizards; integration with INSIGHTâs Shipcons IITM
tactical/operational transportation planning tool; and the most complete
modeling data base available.The
later enables users to get up, running, and finished in the minimum possible
time. SAILS is uniquely able to attain
a true optimum for these clients.
Best Answers Create the Worldâs Most Competitive Supply Chains
"SAILS is unique in its ability to model the real
world and deliver the best answer," says Dr. Jeffrey Karrenbauer, Vice
President of INSIGHT. "With these new features, INSIGHT clients create the
worldâs most competitive supply chains."
SAILS, the state-of-the-art logistics optimization system, improves
customer service levels and lowers logistics costs by optimizing the location
and quantity of raw material suppliers, manufacturing sites, distribution
facilities, and inventory assets.
Analysis of global or regional alternatives considers supply chain
rationalization, business policy, and in-country policy.
Enhancements Make Great Results Easy
Important SAILS enhancements are intuitive summary
screens, navigation where any screen is within three mouse clicks, more data
that jump-starts model building, greater flexibility to build models quickly or
in depth, data entry and manipulation tools integrated with Microsoft Excel and
Access, and ODBC-compliant data base support.
The enhanced capabilities for definition, analysis and presentation of
solutions enable quick, easy optimization that best solves global and regional
logistical questions.
Best Databases Speed Analysis
INSIGHT continues to make modeling easy, with the
most comprehensive freight carrier tariffs, data on major world cities for
global and regional analysis, socioeconomic data for demand pattern analysis,
the most accurate Geographical Information System (GIS) data on highway
distance and driving time, and expanded information that quickly narrows site
selection for distribution facilities.
Site selection data for the USA was expanded from seventy-five to the
top one hundred twenty (12+1) cities for locating distribution facilities and
includes direct and indirect labor rates, average rental costs, and
transportation access.
About INSIGHT, Inc.
INSIGHT software and consulting provide
optimization-based planning and scheduling to solve the logistics and supply
chain management issues of the world's top companies.
INSIGHT solves these latest, critical and most complex issues for
40% of Fortune Magazineâs top fifty firms.
Clients often select INSIGHT when other solutions have failed. These
clients rely on INSIGHT to gain the greatest competitive advantage from the
best answer. Clients include BASF, BPAmoco, Compaq, ExxonMobil, Johnson &
Johnson, Motorola, PepsiCo, Perrier, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Toyota, and
Ingram Books.
Using the X-System®, a proprietary
optimization engine, INSIGHT provides a variety of planning and scheduling
solutions. Examples include crew
scheduling, transportation planning, production planning, and design of global
supply chains. INSIGHT is a growing
provider of optimization components, partnering with third party software
providers to deliver best-of-breed solutions. Call INSIGHT offices in Virginia
at (703) 366-3061 or in Oregon at (541) 388-6998. On the Web, visit
www.INSIGHT-MSS.com.
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