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International energy and technology group selects Lanner Group
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Redditch, 13th December: Lanner Group, the Business Process Improvement company, today announced a new contract with URENCO Limited, the international uranium enrichment company. URENCO is in the process of upgrading its entire Enterprise Resource Planning systems and technology, and has turned to Lanner to provide an integrated bespoke system that will enable URENCO to plan decades ahead and deliver on its long-term commitments.
While URENCO has retained its existing SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, it also required a more specialist long-term operational and management system that would allow it to model complicated variables such as commodity prices, stock holding and sources of supply.
Lanner Group's solution is a comprehensive planning application that integrates long-term global operational and logistics planning across URENCO's facilities in the UK, Germany, Netherlands and the United States. The new software will enable URENCO to manage and optimise stock and production, resulting in shorter lead times, balanced workloads, more efficient supply chains and more effective planning across its facilities. Fundamentally, this system upgrade will ensure that the company's customer service remains the best in class, and that the URENCO Group remain the 'supplier of choice' to the wider nuclear industry.
Lanner's bespoke Global Planning System (GPS) is based on Microsoft's .NET Framework, and is specifically designed to incorporate URENCO's long-term planning needs. The first stage of implementation commenced in November 2010 and the majority of the system will be operational by Spring 2011.
Dominic Kieran, Director, Supply at URENCO said, "The nuclear fuel supply chain requires investment, development and deployment over the course of decades. URENCO, like all companies within the nuclear industry, is subject to many long-term variables and risks. As a global entity with an order book extending beyond 2025, 'off-the-shelf' ERP software simply cannot give us that longevity of planning.
"We chose Lanner Group because of its established expertise in the nuclear energy sector and its understanding of our long-term planning needs. Lanner's commitment to a long-term contract to support the tool into the future was also critical to our choice.
Lanner Group's CEO, David Jones, said, "The nuclear industry is unique in the complexity of its supply chains, the length of commitment to customer and supplier relationships, the vast number of variables that can affect operations and its exposure to financial and other risks. It's vital that firms in the sector have systems in place that enable them to plan and manage their operations to minimise costs, maximise efficiency and plan for future risks many years down the line."
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About Lanner Group Ltd
Lanner is a Business Process Improvement (BPI) company. It provides organisations with superior technologies that improve process understanding, support process optimisation and result in superior decisions. For additional information, visit www.lanner.com
About URENCO Ltd
URENCO is an independent, global energy and technology group, operating in a pivotal area of the nuclear fuel supply chain which ends with the sustainable generation of electricity for consumers around the world. Production is from plants in UK, the Netherlands and Germany utilising URENCO's own centrifuge technology, as well as the recently established plant in New Mexico, US. Focus is on providing safe, cost effective and reliable uranium enrichment services for civil power generation within a framework of environmental, social and corporate responsibility. Our goal is to further increase worldwide market share and to become the leading supplier in the extended global enrichment market.
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