Lilly and Tompkins Announce Supply Chain Alliance
Lilly Software Associates (Hampton, NH) and Tompkins Associates (Raleigh, NC) have formed a strategic alliance to offer seamless supply chain execution solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The alliance brings together Lilly's supply chain management expertise and Tompkins' total operations implementation.
Using the best-of-breed Lilly Software suite, Tompkins Associates molds manufacturing and distribution processes to match current best practices for their customers.
"By drawing on Tompkins' depth and breadth of experience in Total Operations and Lilly's successful implementations, we are able to deliver measurable results by marrying best practices, intellectual capital, and information technology," explains Darrell Travis, partner, Information Technology for Tompkins.
"It is a comprehensive implementation and support model," says Bruce Cotter, Lilly's VP-strategic accounts. "Tompkins' expertise in systems management, combined with our functionality, flexibility and rapid implementation capability provides a powerful tool for the customer who needs to quickly implement a superior supply chains solution."
Lilly's VISUAL Distribution is an end-to-end Supply Chain Management solution for the manufacturer/distributor and the wholesale distributor, including Internet-based Order Management at the frontend with complete integration through front office (ERP) operations, all the way through to the distribution center with a warehouse management system. Lilly's VISUAL Manufacturing is a world-class ERP solution for make-to-order, make-to-stock, and mixed-mode manufacturers.
Tompkins provides expertise in systems implementations, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, organizational excellence, quality, maintenance and the interdisciplinary task of moving companies from supply chain management to Supply Chain Synthesis.
Lilly Software Associates Inc, 500 Lafayette Road, Hampton, NH 03842; phone: 603-926-9696
Tompkins Associates, 2809 Millbrook Road, Raleigh, NC 27604; phone: 919-876-3667