Pulp and Paper

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 20-AUG-2007 05:00 AM Thilmany Papers, a leading manufacturer of specialty lightweight papers and business unit of Packaging Dynamics Corporation, has implemented Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne in order to create a single, integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that will help streamline operations, improve decision-making and reduce costs.
After Thilmany became an independent business in June 2005, it needed to replace multiple legacy systems - including SAP - in an effort to create a single infrastructure that would deliver enhanced visibility across the organization. After an extensive evaluation process, Thilmany chose Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne because it provided integrated functionality, could be quickly deployed and would deliver an attractive total cost of ownership.

Leading paper producer to report on production, operations and sales initiatives while automating financial consolidation processes –

BURLINGTON, MA, August 20, 2007 – Cognos (Nasdaq: COGN; TSX: CSN), the world leader in Business Intelligence and performance management solutions, today announced that Bowater Incorporated has standardized on Cognos’ performance management capabilities to quickly and efficiently analyze and report on its production operations, measure the effectiveness of its sales initiatives and automate its financial consolidation processes.

Prior to selecting Cognos, Bowater had varied reporting solutions throughout the company. Following a competitive review, it turned to Cognos’ performance management platform to gain a consistent view of the organization’s performance information. Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) and Cognos 8 Controller will be implemented enterprise-wide to replace disparate legacy systems within the company.

Helsinki, Finland – Emerson Process Management is exhibiting pathways to reduced project risk and improved operations at PulPaper 2007. By combining its PlantWeb® digital plant architecture with experience from more than 40 years of supplying pulp and paper customers with engineering, project management and lifecycle automation services, Emerson delivers world class Smart Mill performance.

Emerson is a one-stop automation partner for some of the most significant pulp and paper mill projects in the world. The company helps create Smart Mills that feature predictive diagnostics, open standards-based communications networks and software, optimization tools and solutions, and advanced visualization of operating information.

TietoEnator has delivered a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at Abitibi-Consolidated's newsprint mill in Snowflake, Arizona. The mill supplies newspaper publishers in the Western United States with 100% recycled paper.

The project brings the Snowflake operation under the same common MES system as Abitibi-Consolidated operations at Alabama River Newsprint in Perdue Hill, AL; Augusta Newsprint in Augusta, GA; Beaupré in Beaupré, QC; Fort William in Thunder Bay, ON; Grand Falls in Grand Falls-Windsor, NF; Kénogami in Jonquiere, QC; and Mackenzie in Mackenzie, BC. All of these mills operate under a common TietoEnator system to harmonize business and manufacturing processes, and to generate comparable reports for manufacturing and shipping.

TietoEnator AB has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with SAP Sverige and is now an SAP channel partner in Sweden. As part of this agreement, TietoEnator will resell licenses of SAP® solutions, SAP All-in-One solutions and application maintenance services to companies within the forest industry in Sweden. A similar agreement was recently signed between TietoEnator Austria and SAP Österreich. TietoEnator Finland has also signed an SAP PartnerEdge VAR agreement with SAP Finland.

TietoEnator offers enterprise resource planning, Supply Chain management, and manufacturing execution solution packages for forest industry companies such as pulp, paper and packaging companies. The solutions are based on the mySAP(TM) ERP application and TietoEnator's industry-specific products.

Long Beach, CA – Apriso Corporation, a provider of Adaptive software platforms for global operations execution, confirmed its selection as a member of SAP AG’s industry value network (IVN) for forest and paper companies within the mill products industry. This designation is based upon SAP customer feedback and nominations and recognizes the value Apriso brings to forest and paper companies, extending Apriso’s relationship with SAP.

SAP’s industry value networks are ecosystems that bring together partners such as Apriso, independent software vendors and systems integrators with SAP and executives from leading SAP customer companies. The members of each IVN, including the recently launched IVN for forest and paper companies, work together to solve customers’ most pressing business challenges through the creation and continual improvement of end-to-end business processes. As a result of the collaboration, companies will extend and enrich their investments in solutions from SAP and IVN members, helping optimize asset utilization and lower IT investment risk.

TietoEnator has implemented an SAP®-based, comprehensive business solution for Salzer Papier GmbH, an Austrian woodfree book print paper producer. The solution supports all major corporate processes from finance to production.

The SAP(TM) All-in-One solution for Pulp & Paper supports the whole corporate value chain covering the processes for sales, purchasing, production planning, production execution, warehouse management, transport, finance and controlling in an efficient way.

Thomas Salzer, General Manager and shareholder of Salzer Papier GmbH said:
"Being a small-sized paper company, we had some challenges in finding an integrated solution supporting all our business processes and at the same time being affordable for us. The SAP All-in-One based Pulp & Paper Solution from TietoEnator fits our needs perfectly. The major decision criteria in choosing TietoEnator as our supplier, were their industry knowledge and their pulp and paper solution availability."

SCHAUMBURG, IL & ARMONK, NY - 10 Jan 2007: Pliant Corporation and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Pliant has implemented an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) platform pilot program, designed by IBM consultants, to track shipments between the two technical centers and customer sites and detect tampering in its stretch-wrapping products. The RFID solution enables Pliant to use handheld devices to track products and identify potential tampering in real-time.

"The RFID system we've implemented provides us with a real-time view of our products' security and location so we can ensure that we will meet our customers' expectations," says Doug Lilac, Pliant's Technical Director for Innovation. "The goal of this program is to commercialize practical and cost-effective bulk packaging solutions that incorporate RFID technology."

SAP Industry Value Network for Mill Products Launches with Focus on the Forest and Paper Industry

LAS VEGAS - December 04, 2006 - Building on its long-standing experience developing and driving Technology solutions for the mill products industry, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the formation of its next industry-focused collaboration effort, designed to bring together customers, partners and SAP to address the unique challenges of the forest and paper industry. Based on the success of its industry value networks (IVNs) for the chemicals, consumer products, high tech, public sector and retail industries, SAP today launched the IVN for mill products. The IVNs are industry-relevant ecosystems that bring together independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) with SAP and executives from leading customer companies to solve customers’ most pressing business challenges through the creation and continual improvement of end-to-end business processes. The end result of the collaboration enables companies to extend and enrich their investments in SAP and partner solutions, helping optimize asset utilization and lower IT investment risk. The announcement was made at SAP’s fourth annual Analyst Summit, being held in Las Vegas, December 4-5.

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PFSweb, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFSW) a global provider of integrated business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions, has been chosen by Katun Corporation, the world’s leading alternative supplier to the office equipment industry, to provide Logistics and order fulfillment services for their Canadian operations. The terms of this contract were not disclosed.

PFSweb will support Katun’s Canadian operations from its Richmond Hill, Toronto distribution center, providing inventory management, fulfillment, distribution, traffic management, and returns processing services.

BOSTON — Dec. 4, 2006 — ToolsGroup, a global provider of Inventory Optimization solutions, today announced signing three consumer paper goods new customers in 2006. The companies are Fater (a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and Angelini Group), Jofel Industrial and Georgia Pacific. All three companies manufacture consumer paper products. They face the challenge of insuring optimized Customer Service to a diverse customer base, from large national and international retail chains to small local distributors, while simultaneously reducing inventory and operating costs. Fater Spa is a joint venture between Procter & Gamble and Angelini Group. The company makes sanitary paper products for personal hygiene and owns prominent brands such as Pampers, Lines, Tampax, Tempo and Dignity. Fater recently launched a significant overhaul of its planning systems and selected ToolsGroup to support a higher level of service for its customers. “Our company is continually improving products and processes,” said Benedetto Conversano, IT manager at Fater. “The agreement with ToolsGroup allows us to use the DPM suite to optimize planning and offer ever-increasing levels of quality and efficiency.”