Initiative Will Enable Technology Providers To Combine Products For Enhanced Supply Chain Solutions

DALLAS -- Blue Sky Technologies, Inc., a supply chain real-time visibility software company, and Optricity Corporation, a developer of supply chain optimization engines, have formed a partnership that will enable the two companies to combine products for enhanced technology solutions for their customers.

By embedding Optricity’s primary Juncture Optimization™ engines into Blue Sky Technologies' Insight™ executive decision dashboard, the companies will not only be able to alert customers to real-time pending issues and trends within their supply chains, but also solve complex optimization problems. These solution areas include; product and equipment routing, scheduling, assignments and queuing.

Optricity provides supply chain optimization engines and applications that solve complex algorithmic problems within the total realm of a company’s supply chain. With Optricity’s product as the algorithmic solver engine and Blue Sky Technologies as the supply chain visibility solution, the two companies will be able to provide customers with a more comprehensive visibility and resolution application.

"Blue Sky Technologies will embed Optricity's optimization engine within our Insight product," said Steve Hensley, president of Blue Sky Technologies. "In doing so, we will create a more comprehensive executive visibility and resolution technology solution for our customers. Optricity has the top supply chain optimization engine in the industry and 'Powered by Optricity' is one additional way we will be able to add real supply chain value for our customers."

"We have coined the term 'Juncture Optimization' to describe our positioning at merge points or 'in the cracks' between mainstream systems where visibility applications may reside but where there is no use of optimization techniques to achieve a more globally optimal solution to supply chain problems," added Dan Basmajian, president of Optricity LLC. "By working now with Blue Sky Technologies, we will be able to take this vision one step further by combining optimization techniques with total supply chain visibility to provide companies with an extremely powerful decision-making tool."

About Optricity

Based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Optricity Corporation offers mathematically advanced, optimization engines to enhance return on supply chain investment. Capitalizing on leading web technologies, improved computing algorithms and analysis techniques, Optricity’s tools integrate with current supply chain staples. The company uses optimization techniques to solve enterprise supply chain problems that are not addressed by the mainstream systems such as OMS, WMS, TMS and ERP. Its engines optimize least cost solutions based on competing goals and constraints of multiple functions (data and systems) coming together at merge points or junctures. For more information, visit www.optricity.com.

About Blue Sky Technologies

Blue Sky Technologies, Inc. is a supply chain visibility software company that provides customers with targeted executive decision dashboards, such as its flagship product, Insight. The company’s solutions are configurable to serve the needs of multiple individuals within a company’s various levels of supply chain responsibilities. Blue Sky Technologies offers integrated, prepackaged supply-chain software and quality service offerings to clients to enhance their customers' competitive advantage in the marketplace. For more information, visit www.blueskylogistics.com.

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