CUSTOMER SPOTLIGHT

Schneider runs leaner
Cuts transportation costs by as much as 25 percent
Applying its industry-leading SUMIT Transportation Management System, Schneider Logistics (www.schneiderlogistics.com) has begun saving its customers 5-25 percent on transportation costs by consolidating and routing shipments with ILOG Dispatcher, ILOG's advanced optimization component for vehicle dispatching.

Schneider Logistics provides supply-chain management services to more than 250 companies, including Thomson Multimedia and General Motors Service Parts Organization. It works with approximately 8,500 carriers worldwide, arranging as many as 40,000 shipments a week and handling more than $7 billion in freight transactions annually on behalf of its customers.

Part of SUMIT is a planning and optimizing module for scheduling and consolidating shipments to lower costs by reducing the distance traveled by trucks in providing on-time service.

Using ILOG Dispatcher's base technology, SUMIT takes into account all the constraints for a shipment -- from shipping restrictions and depot operating hours to final destination and delivery time -- to find the most cost-effective solution for delivering it.

CitiStreet invests in ILOG business rules
Benefit plans to profit from speed and flexibility
CitiStreet (www.citistreetonline.com) will use ILOG's JRules business rule management system (BRMS) to further streamline the management, calculation and administration of complex benefit plans for Global 2000 companies.

The job is big -- with more than 8.3 million participants and administration of approximately $182.5 billion in assets, CitiStreet is one of the premier global benefit providers, and the second largest U.S. retirement plan record keeper.

ILOG JRules BRMS will be used with CitiStreet's benefit administration platform, where it will store and manage thousands of business rules for client policies, government regulations and customer preferences.

ILOG JRules BRMS will allow CitiStreet to easily add new Web-enabled services, by moving the administration and execution of business rules to a J2EE-compliant platform.

The new system increases business agility, as CitiStreet analysts can now immediately apply new policies or programs directly to running applications, without technical assistance.

Powel ASA maximizes profit
Energy production scheduled by the hour
Planning power production to maximize profit during fluctuating demand and price is among the most challenging problems faced by the energy industry. Power companies that cannot achieve production scheduling almost in real time are at an extreme disadvantage.

Powel ASA (http://powelgroup.com) delivers competitive planning and scheduling to its energy customers, with a comprehensive solution based on ILOG CPLEX, ILOG Views and ILOG Data Access. Powel ASA supplies the power industry with software solutions for generating, selling and distributing electricity, and has become a leading supplier of planning tools for hydropower scheduling. As competition becomes stiffer in the industry, Powel ASA has kept its customers on top with innovative solutions.

ILOG CPLEX calculates the optimal production schedule for generators using the expected market price per hour for several days. Powel ASA's solution also benefits from an interface and database connectivity based on ILOG Views and ILOG Data Access, respectively. The interface shows a hydropower system and ILOG CPLEX results, while ILOG Data Access connects the solution to databases and ensures compatibility among computers.

UTStarcom provides real-time view
Communications companies worldwide get window into their networks
Targeting the largest, fastest growing communications markets around the world, UTStarcom (www.utstarcom.com) has adopted ILOG JTGO for the graphical interfaces of its unified network management solutions.

UTStarcom is a top provider of wireless, wireline and broadband access equipment with more than 300 customers deploying over 10 million lines of products. UTStarcom will use ILOG JTGO to create graphical user interfaces for operations support systems that manage network assets in real time.

With ILOG JTGO providing a window into complex networks, UTStarcom customers will be able to simplify the management of mission-critical services and proactively monitor networks for potential problems. Furthermore, ILOG JTGO is completely Java-compliant and Web-ready, enabling UTStarcom to offer interfaces that can be run anywhere, from desktop PCs to high-end UNIX workstations.

ILOG JTGO is the de facto standard for OSS interfaces used by leading equipment vendors, including Nortel, Nokia, Motorola and Alcatel, and communications service providers such as NTT, China Telecom and France Telecom.

Intershop gets personal
Loyalty and profits increase with Enfinity
Personalization increases customer loyalty and revenue for online merchants and other e-businesses, giving them a tremendous advantage in a highly competitive market. Now Intershop Communications (www.intershop.com) brings this advantage to the widely used Intershop Enfinity e-commerce platform, using the ILOG JRules business rule management system (BRMS).

Intershop is a leader in Internet marketing, procurement and sales operations. Combined with proven, flexible cross-industry solutions, the Enfinity platform enables companies to manage multiple business units from a single platform, improve business relationships, increase business efficiency, and lower costs to increase profit margins.

Added to the Enfinity B2B and B2C Solutions, ILOG JRules BRMS enables Intershop customers to benefit from powerful one-to-one marketing techniques, allowing them to personalize the content of their e-business solutions and improve customer loyalty through direct, individualized services.

This boosts sales through effective cross-selling and up-selling recommendations that result in larger orders and customer migration to high-value offerings.