CDC Software Announces Availability of New Product Lifecycle Management Solution for Ross Enterprise that Shortens Time to Ma...
September 08 2010 - 12:44PM
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CDC Software Corporation (NASDAQ: CDCS), a hybrid enterprise
software provider of on-premise and cloud deployments, announced
today the availability of Product Lifecycle Management for CDC Ross
Enterprise (Ross PLM), a new module that helps process
manufacturers shorten their time to market, facilitate product
compliance, increase productivity and collaboration across the
product lifecycle, reduce costs, and ultimately, improve
profitability.
Ross PLM is a scalable solution that covers functional areas
such as new product development, portfolio management, product and
packaging design, quality and regulatory compliance and sourcing.
The solution provides an information backbone for process
manufacturers to manage virtually all aspects of their product’s
life, no matter how complex.
Ross PLM delivers faster formulation benefits in the form of
reduced development time with the ability to create recipes from
scratch, modify or add ingredients to an existing recipe or from a
template. It helps reduce water loss with the ability to specify
target output levels for formula or recipe components and it
enables a manufacturer to take complete control over a mass replace
of an ingredient in multiple formulas.
The new product features templates to help process manufacturers
facilitate compliance by generating global regulatory documentation
for multiple specifications in a variety of regions. It also
dynamically generates labeling on nutrition, ingredient statements
and other data required by regulators.
Litehouse Foods, a leading manufacturer of dressings, dips and
sauces and a long-time customer of Ross ERP, plans to implement
Ross PLM. “As a food manufacturer, we face a demanding business and
regulatory environment that presents unique challenges when
managing a product’s lifecycle,” said John Shaw, director of
Information Technology and Purchasing at Litehouse Foods. “We
expect Ross PLM will help us directly address those unique
challenges while facilitating best practices across our entire
product lifecycle.”
“Process manufacturers are faced with a host of challenges
dealing with a volatile business environment, intense competition
due to greater globalization, higher material costs and increased
regulatory compliance where virtually every process in which the
product is made is now just as important as the product itself,”
said Alan MacLamroc, executive vice president and chief product and
technology officer of CDC Software. “Ross PLM helps food, chemical
and life science manufacturers directly address those challenges
and ultimately reduce costs and risks, shorten the time to market
for their products, facilitate their compliance requirements,
improve collaboration within the company and with their suppliers,
ensure product quality and ultimately improve their
profitability.”
Ross PLM is an add-on module that can be implemented with either
Ross ERP 6.3 or Ross ERP 6.4.
About CDC Software
CDC Software (NASDAQ: CDCS), The Customer-Driven Company™, is a
hybrid enterprise software provider of on-premise and cloud
deployments. Leveraging a service-oriented architecture (SOA), CDC
Software offers multiple delivery options for their solutions
including on-premise, hosted, cloud-based Software as a Service
(SaaS) or blended-hybrid deployment offerings. CDC Software's
solutions include enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing
operations management, enterprise manufacturing intelligence,
supply chain management (demand management, order management and
warehouse and transportation management), global trade management,
e-Commerce, human capital management, customer relationship
management (CRM), complaint management and aged care solutions.
CDC Software's recent acquisitions are part of its "acquire,
integrate, innovate and grow" strategy. Fueling the success of this
strategy is the company's global scalable business and technology
infrastructure featuring multiple complementary applications and
services, domain expertise in vertical markets, cost effective
product engineering centers in India and China, a highly
collaborative and fast product development process utilizing Agile
methodologies, and a worldwide network of direct sales and channel
operations. This strategy has helped CDC Software deliver
innovative and industry-specific solutions to 8,000 customers
worldwide within the manufacturing, distribution, transportation,
retail, government, real estate, financial services, health care,
and not-for-profit industries. For more information, please visit
www.cdcsoftware.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within
the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to Ross PLM, our
beliefs regarding the benefits and utility of Ross PLM Viewer, our
beliefs regarding the potential effects and benefits for users of
our products, including reduced costs, improved quality, and
meeting regulatory requirements, our beliefs regarding additional
planned product releases and the timing thereof, our beliefs
regarding improvements in our internal development processes, and
other statements that are not historical fact, the achievement of
which involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These
statements are based on management's current expectations and are
subject to risks and uncertainties and changes in circumstances.
There are important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in the forward looking
statements including, among others: the conditions of the process
manufacturing industry; the continued ability of Ross Enterprise
solutions to address industry-specific requirements of companies in
the process manufacturing industry; demand for and market
acceptance of new and existing Ross Enterprise solutions;
development of new functionalities which would allow process
manufacturers to compete more effectively and changes in the type
of information required to compete in the process manufacturing
industry. Further information on risks or other factors that could
cause results to differ is detailed in our filings or submissions
with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission,
including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended
December 31, 2009, filed with the SEC on June 30, 2010, and those
of our ultimate parent company, CDC Corporation, located at
www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements included in this press
release are based upon information available to management as of
the date of the press release, and you are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on any forward looking statements which speak only
as of the date of this press release. The company assumes no
obligation to update or alter the forward looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Historical results are not indicative of future performance.
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