SAPA Expands Contracts With Quintiq

By Quintiq, PRNE
Sunday, January 10, 2010

First Chinese Customer SAPA Re-Elects Quintiq to Maximize New Facilities Capacity Utilization

SHANGHAI, January 11 - Quintiq announces today that SAPA Heat Transfer (Shanghai) Ltd.
(SHTS) has decided to extend the Quintiq Company Planner and Scheduler for
the planning and scheduling of new work shops in Shanghai, China. The
planning solution will support the company in Shanghai in distributing the
workload over the old and new facilities, and maximize the capacity
utilization, while keeping total inventory to a minimum.

SHTS started to cooperate with Quintiq China in 2006. At that
time, Quintiq enabled SHTS to improve its delivery performance, reduce
inventory and optimize manufacturing bottlenecks. Due to the earlier
beneficial cooperation, SHTS re-elected Quintiq to support the utilization of
the new facilities.

The capacity of SHTS has almost doubled due to the extension, and
the new facilities have adopted the latest manufacturing technology. The
benefits of these include shorter lead times, higher output, and an excellent
product quality. SHTS therefore wants to use the new facilities as much as
possible. When distributing orders, SHTS needs to consider more factors such
as due date, the need to balance capacity over the old and new workshops, and
the different production capabilities. The system will be integrated with the
existing Quintiq APS system.

About SAPA Heat Transfer (Shanghai)

Sapa Heat Transfer (Shanghai) Ltd. is a wholly foreign-owned
enterprise (WFOE), based in the automotive centre of Jiading, north of
Shanghai. We are the only rolling mill in the world that has chosen to work
exclusively with aluminum strips for heat exchangers in automotive
applications. Our Swedish parent company, Sapa AB, develops, manufactures and
markets value-added aluminum profiles, profile-based components and systems,
and heat exchanger strips in aluminum. In 2008, the Sapa Group turnover was
33 billion SEK dollars and the company employed 13,000 people worldwide.
www.sapagroup.com

About Quintiq

Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain
management solutions. The fast-growing Dutch company, established in 1997,
offers software for planning and optimizing complex business processes. The
company's headquarters is located in the Netherlands and it has subsidiaries
in Australia, China, Finland Germany, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the
USA, with implementations in 68 countries. For more information:
www.quintiq.com or www.quintiq.cn.

For more information: Quintiq China, Cindy Li, Business Unit Director, +86-21-53513887, cindy.li at quintiq.com; Quintiq, Martijn van Gils, Global Marketing Director, +31(0)73-691-07-39, martijn.van.gils at quintiq.com

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