ICON-SCM is a supply chain solution provider located in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

 (Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

), San Jose

San Jose, California

San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...

 (California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

) and Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

(India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

). The company was founded in 1992 by Dr. Michael Keppler and Dr. Kurt Mannchen.

The software solutions provide planning and collaboration functionality and support many supply chain

Supply chain

A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...

 planning processes, like Sales and Operations Plan

Sales and Operations Plan

Sales and operations planning is an integrated business management process through which the executive/leadership team continually achieves focus, alignment and synchronization among all functions of the organization...

ning, demand planning, supply chain visibility and liability. ICON-SCM's unique planning approach is covered by a US patent . In the high-tech industry, it is suited to best-practice business process needs.

Among the customers are HP, Western Digital

Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation is one of the largest computer hard disk drive manufacturers in the world. It has a long history in the electronics industry as an integrated circuit maker and a storage products company. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970 by Alvin B...

, Honeywell

Honeywell

Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

, Sanmina-SCI Corporation

Sanmina-SCI Corporation

Sanmina-SCI Corporation is a global electronics manufacturing services provider headquartered in San Jose, California that serves original equipment manufacturers in technology-related industries such as communications and computer hardware. Sanmina-SCI has nearly 80 manufacturing sites...

, Tellabs

Tellabs

Tellabs, Inc. is a telecommunications company that designs and manufactures equipment for service providers.Ranked among the BusinessWeek InfoTech 100, Tellabs is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index, NASDAQ Global Select Market, Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index and the S&P 500...

, Foxconn

Foxconn

The Foxconn Technology Group is a multinational business group anchored by the Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. , a Taiwan-registered corporation headquartered in Tucheng, Taiwan...

, Daimler, BMW

BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

 and Audi

Audi

Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....

.

In the 2009 Supply Chain Innovation Award competition at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals

The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is the leading worldwide association of professionals in supply chain management. The CSCMP is a non-profit association that provides leadership in the development, design and improvement in occupations that deal with logistics and management of...

’ (CSCMP) annual global conference held in Chicago, September 20–23, ICON-SCM and Tellabs

Tellabs

Tellabs, Inc. is a telecommunications company that designs and manufactures equipment for service providers.Ranked among the BusinessWeek InfoTech 100, Tellabs is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index, NASDAQ Global Select Market, Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index and the S&P 500...

 received second-place honors “A Framework for Success: Improving the Efficiency of Outsourced Manufacturing Operations.”

Since November 2010, SAP

SAP AG

SAP AG is a German software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. Headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, with regional offices around the world, SAP is the market leader in enterprise application software...

 distributes ICON-SCMs supply-chain solutions as "SAP Supply Chain Response Management by ICON-SCM".

SAP provides the software as SAP SCRM BY ICON-SCM (under SAP Solution Extensions by Partners)

External links

• ICON-SCM's website
• http://cscmp.orgThe website of the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
  Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
  The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals is the leading worldwide association of professionals in supply chain management. The CSCMP is a non-profit association that provides leadership in the development, design and improvement in occupations that deal with logistics and management of...
  
   (CSCMP)]

See also

• Advanced planning and scheduling (APS)
• Supply chain
  Supply chain
  A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities transform natural resources, raw materials and components into a finished product that is delivered to...
  
  
• Supply network
  Supply network
  A supply network is a pattern of temporal and spatial processes carried out at facility nodes and over distribution links, which adds value for customers through the manufacturing and delivery of products...
  
  
• Demand chain management
  Demand chain management
  Demand chain management is the management of upstream and downstream relationships between suppliers and customers to deliver the best value to the customer at the least cost to the demand chain as a whole. The term demand chain management is used to denote the concept commonly referred to as...