APICS, the premier professional association for supply chain management, announced today that OPS Rules, the leading operations and supply chain analytics firm, has signed on as a premier corporate sponsor.

OPS Rules is known for its cutting-edge work in areas ranging from network design and multi-echelon inventory optimization to advanced analytics such as segmentation and price optimization. The organization has experience helping companies achieve 10 to 30 percent improvements in metrics such as revenue and profit. As part of the collaboration, OPS Rules will contribute content for APICS research on topics such as the Internet of Things, manufacturing flexibility, and supply chain risk and price optimization.

“OPS Rules is a well-known leader in operations analytics with unique expertise that helps companies identify and capture hidden opportunities in their supply chains and operating models,” said APICS Executive Vice President, Peter Bolstorff, CSCP, SCOR-P. “We are pleased to have OPS Rules as part of the APICS community.”

Additionally, OPS Rules will join the APICS Corporate Advisory Board to help raise awareness of the value analytics brings to the supply chain. The two organizations will co-author an upcoming report on operations analytics and OPS Rules will participate in the APICS Supply Chain Council’s (APICS SCC) Annual Executive Summit in February 2016.

“I believe that combining OPS Rules’ operations analytics practice with APICS’s experience and large network will contribute to a better understanding of current end-to-end supply chain practices,” said Mike Romeri, CEO and Managing Partner of OPS Rules. “We see this as a transformative collaboration for both parties.”

As an APICS premier corporate sponsor, OPS Rules will also have access to APICS SCC frameworks, such as the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain management community’s most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and performance. Since 1996, over 5,000 companies worldwide have implemented the SCOR framework.

To see the complete benefits of becoming an APICS sponsor and learn about the individual sponsor categories, please visit the sponsorship section of the website.

About OPS Rules

OPS Rules is the leading analytics and optimization firm focused on helping companies identify and capture hidden opportunities in their supply chains and operating models. We bring fresh intellectual property to clients based on the work of Professor David Simchi-Levi from MIT. We implement a three-step methodology, analyze.innovate.transform, to ensure sustainable business outcomes. Our blog features material on Supply Chain and Operations Analytics topics of interest.

About APICS

APICS is the premier professional association for supply chain management and the leading provider of research, education and certification programs that elevate supply chain excellence, innovation and resilience. APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and APICS Supply Chain Operations Reference Professional (SCOR-P) designations set the industry standard. With over 45,000 members and more than 300 channel partners, APICS is transforming the way people do business, drive growth and reach global customers. For more information, visit apics.org.

About APICS Supply Chain Council

APICS Supply Chain Council (APICS SCC) is a nonprofit organization that advances supply chains through unbiased research, benchmarking and publications. APICS SCC maintains the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model, the supply chain management community’s most widely accepted framework for evaluating and comparing supply chain activities and performance. APICS SCC enables corporations, academic institutions and public sector organizations to address the ever-changing challenges of managing a global supply chain to elevate supply chain performance. APICS SCC is part of APICS, the premier professional association for supply chain and operations management. Visit apicsscc.org to learn more.