Gensym Announces e-SCOR 2.0

Gensym Corporation, a leader in adaptive software products for modeling, simulating and managing e-business infrastructure, announced the immediate availability of its e-SCOR version 2.0 software for modeling and simulating complex supply-chain environments. With this latest version of e-SCOR, Gensym offers customers the benefits of improved ease of use, enhanced scenario analysis and inclusion of the latest industry-standard processes and metrics. These benefits help users make multi-million dollar strategic supply-chain decisions with confidence.

e-SCOR 2.0 is targeted toward those supply-chain managers, chief operating officers, directors of logistics and business analysts needing organized data and facts upon which to base crucial, complex supply- chain decisions. Gensym designed e-SCOR to help businesses model supply value chains and business scenarios, test the effectiveness of their supply chain and establish required service levels with partners. Businesses also can use it to help identify possible shortcomings and areas for improvement in their e-infrastructure, saving them time and money. Gensym created e-SCOR in accord with the Supply Chain Council's SCOR standard, www.supply-chain.org.

Among the companies that have adopted e-SCOR for supply-chain management is Molex Inc, of Lisle, Ill., the world's second-largest manufacturer of electronic, electrical and fiber-optic interconnection products and systems. "As a leading supplier of electronic connectors and components we are continually looking for ways to improve our value and service to our partners," said Eamon McAleavey, European Director of Logistics and Sourcing for Molex. "We believe that e-SCOR will help us to better understand our role in a complex supply chain. With that understanding will come both enhanced customer service levels and internal efficiency. By allowing us to take our SCOR models to new levels of utility with off-the-shelf analysis, we anticipate that the e-SCOR 2.0 software will benefit Molex and its partners."

Gensym developed e-SCOR based upon its expertise in the modeling and analysis of supply chains for a host of organizations, including the U.S. Army, 3M, Cargill, Eli Lilly and others over the past five years.

The company designed e-SCOR to be unique among supply-chain analysis software by making it quick and easy for users to build and analyze models. Once the user has created their specific supply-chain topology and entered the appropriate inputs, including product costs, shipping time, capacity, etc., into the program, e-SCOR quickly and accurately reports the service levels of that supply chain. Then, through analysis techniques and multiple what-if scenarios offered by the user, e-SCOR enables the evaluation of decisions as new circumstances and possibilities unfold.

"As companies look to more fully integrate aspects of e-business into their existing business models, they need tools that will enable them to better understand and reassess their current value chains," said Bruce Palmer, Gensym's product manger for e-SCOR. "e-SCOR 2.0 helps with that process by providing quicker and easier analysis that leads to more effective decisions."

System requirements, pricing and availability

e-SCOR runs on the Windows 2000 Professional and Windows NT operating systems with a minimum of 256 MB of RAM or higher. e-SCOR is available now from Gensym and its distribution partners. The product has a U.S. list price starting at $55,000. For more information, call 1-800-896-3030 (U.S. and Canada only).

About Gensym

Gensym Corporation, www.gensym.com, is a leading provider of adaptive software products that model, simulate and manage e-business infrastructure. Since 1986, Gensym has sold more than 13,000 product licenses to organizations in communications, manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, government and other industries. Gensym is making e-business infrastructure work.

Contact Gensym Corporation, Sterling Hager Inc, Kevin Flanagan, Bob Collins, 617-588-3319, 617-926-6665 x318, kflanagan@gensym.com, bob@sterlinghager.com.