AnswerThink forms supply chain practice

AnswerThink Consulting Group (Miami) has formed a practice to focus on supply chain and ERP solutions. The Interprise Supply Chain Solutions practice will offer supply chain consulting and implementation services. The goal of the practice is to help companies facilitate the rapid exchange of information between customers, suppliers, distributors and all critical business partners. The group will offer diagnostic, optimization, transformation and implementation of world class processes and technologies, including integration between ERP and supply chain management packages. Other services offered by this practice will focus on emerging technologies like electronic commerce, Web-based purchasing, advanced planning, event-based planning and supply chain management application software. Companies today are scrambling to gain substantial advantages, said AnswerThink CEO Ted Fernandez. "The key to being competitive is speed, innovation and strategy." The new practice will "help companies build the right infrastructures to achieve these critical goals."