Baan NV plans to announce its full supply chain suite today (Monday) claiming to have tightly coupled front-end decision support systems with back-end fulfillment capabilities. It says its supply chain offering consists of 19 products, and claims to have over 450 customers and 1,200 installations already in place.
Struggling with its core manufacturing and ERP business in a tough market, Baan has spent the last few years preparing to expand its offerings in the faster growing markets of customer relationship management and supply chain management, and has now divided its business into those three sectors, each with a general manager reporting to Baan CEO Mary Coleman. The 1997 acquisition of Aurum Software Inc gave it a foothold in front-office software, and last yearÆs buy of Caps Logistics Inc, combined with the 1996 acquisition of the Berclain Group Inc, filled in the remaining gaps in its supply chain offerings. Katrina Roche, formed CEO of Caps, is now general manager of Baan Supply Chain.
Sixteen out of the 19 supply chain modules are already available, and have been on sale separately. Now, Baan has put them together as a complete suite, in three main categories: strategic planning, operational planning and transactional systems. The suite covers supply chain network modeling and design, extensive collaboration capabilities based on XML and using a rules-based inference engine, and intelligent back-end fulfillment, linking to BaanERP and manufacturing. Pricing is from $50,000 to $800,000 per component, and the suite should be available in October.
