Kinaxis®, provider of RapidResponse®, deliveringcloud-based supply chain management (SCM) and sales and operations planning(S&OP) solutions, announced that 2013 marked another year for marketexpansion and business growth. Over the last eight years the company has grownrevenue sequentially each year, and the momentum continued in 2013, with:
   — Double-digit revenue growth
   — Sustained profitability
   — Significant free cash flow (FCF)
“We continued to drive strong results in 2013,”says Douglas Colbeth, CEO of Kinaxis. “We see that companies, in thevertical markets we serve, are placing a stronger emphasis on end-to-end valuechain, which has resulted in continued investments in supply chain managementsolutions. As we enter 2014, we will continue to invest aggressively in ourglobal channel partnerships and product innovation, to support our plannedfuture growth.”
Business Highlights
Strategic relationships, market expansion and productinnovation all contributed to the company’s advancements in 2013. Highlightsinclude:
   — Strengthening Kinaxis partner alliances todrive growth with valuable
       strategicpartnerships and managed service providers
   — Continued territorial growth as witnessed bynew customers Nihon Koden
       in Asia
   — Increasing the presence in key markets andentering new markets, such as
       theautomotive vertical
   — Innovative product enhancements as seen inthe latest release with
       concentrations on strengthening mission critical capabilities, extended
       supplychain visibility and multi-enterprise collaboration, as well as
       enhancingbusiness services
Industry Accolades
   — Recognition of Kinaxis in the marketplace wasvalidated with the
       followingawards “100 Great Supply Chain Projects” by Supply & Demand
       ChainExecutive and the SupplyChainBrain “Great Supply Chain Partners”.
       Inaddition, Aamer Rehman, vice president of industry strategy and
       solutions,was honored as a “Pro to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain
       ExecutivemagazineÂ
   — Kinaxis also received several employerawards, including being named
       one of”Canada’s Best Small & Medium Employers for 2014″, “Canada’sTop
       Employersfor Young People” and was named as one of the “National
       CapitalRegion’s Top Employers”
About Kinaxis
Kinaxis delivers cloud-based S&OP and supply chainsolutions for discrete manufacturers and brand owners with complex supply chainnetworks and volatile business environments. Leaders across multiple industryverticals, including A&D, Automotive, High Tech, Industrial and LifeSciences rely on RapidResponse for concurrent planning, continuous performancemonitoring, and coordinated responses to plan variances across multiple areasof the business. RapidResponse’s configurable service solutions encompass afull spectrum of supply chain related business processes, including suchfunctions as: S&OP, supply planning, capacity planning, demand planning,inventory management, MPS and order fulfillment. As a result, Kinaxis customershave replaced disparate planning and performance management tools and arerealizing significant operations performance breakthroughs in planning cycles,supply chain response times and decision accuracy. From a single product,customers are able to easily model varying supply chain conditions to make bothlong-term and real-time demand and supply balancing decisions quickly,collaboratively, and in line with the shared business objectives of multiplestakeholders.
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