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Hermes Reply expands its partnership with Apriso to help Italian manufacturers cut costs and improve production operations

26 June 2009

The longstanding relationship between the Turin-based company and the software manufacturer from California has been further consolidated following renewed interest in the Italian market, with a special focus on manufacturing companies, the heart and soul of Italy’s industrial fabric.

Apriso, a leading provider of adaptive software solutions for global Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM), and the Turin-based company Hermes Reply, a manufacturing systems integrator and part of the Reply Group, have launched a joint project to assist Italian manufacturing companies in identifying opportunities to improve quality, reduce costs and eliminate waste from their production processes.

Hermes Reply will provide turnkey solutions for Italian manufacturing companies based on Apriso’s FlexNet platform. These solutions will focus on improving the synchronization of material flows, increasing efficiency, raising quality standards and reducing both IT and production costs, providing greater flexibility to respond faster and more competently to changes in the market and economy. In other words, to improve the bottom line.

For several years, Apriso and Hermes Reply have worked together serving leading Italian companies such as Schneider and Lear Corporation, an important Fiat Auto supplier. Companies that operate within the framework of discrete manufacturing can draw maximum benefit from the combination of Hermes Reply’s extensive knowledge of the Italian market and Apriso’s experience in the development of global solutions like those that have been introduced at L’Oréal, Saint Gobain and Valeo.

“The consolidation of our already excellent relationship with Hermes Reply will give an additional boost to our presence among manufacturing companies, a sector in which this Reply Group company can be considered a major player”, said Luca Introini, Country Manager for Apriso in Italy. “Apriso’s technological leadership combined with Hermes Reply’s leading market position will provide the right mix for consolidating the capabilities of the Italian industrial system, at a time when manufacturing is staging a decisive return to the center of the economic scene”.

“By expanding our partnership with Apriso, we will be able to better help Italian manufacturers increase their efficiency and their competitiveness, especially at a time when the economy and the market require the utmost attention to production operations”, said Rosario D’Agostino, CEO of Hermes Reply.

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Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events. Apriso’s FlexNet platform provides visibility, adaptability and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network. This is accomplished by integrating planning, execution and control, increasing operational efficiency and eliminating errors in the production process. Apriso serves more than 175 customers in 41 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Its customers include General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, L’Oreal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor. For more information, please go to www.apriso.com.

Hermes Reply belongs to the Reply Group and specializes in discrete manufacturing management solutions that focus on optimizing the use of manufacturing resources, decreasing working capital and improving product quality. Hermes Reply’s major clients include leading companies in the aerospace, automotive and fashion industries.

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