2004 Press Releases
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Successful International User Group Conference Offers "Best Practices" for glovia.com Users
Hosted By the Glovia International User Group, the Event Provides Forum for Users to Maximize Their Investment In glovia.com
Orlando, Fla., May 27, 2004 - Glovia International, a subsidiary of Fujitsu and a leading provider of extended ERP solutions for engineer-to-order and high volume manufacturers, announced today from the Glovia International User Group Conference the successful conclusion of the 2004 conference held at the Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The conference, with one of its largest attendances to date, brought together hundreds of customers and partners from around the world to learn more about Glovia's extended ERP solution, glovia.com, and how to maximize their investment in the solution.
This year's conference, themed "Best Practices," provided attendees with informative educational sessions and business strategy presentations as well as product-focused tutorials and hands-on workshops. glovia.com users also shared best practices on a host of topics ranging from Supply Chain Automation, Lean Manufacturing and Inventory Management to B2B Initiatives, eCommerce and Collaboration.
"Investing in our customers is a major priority and this event provided a forum to bring to the forefront the critical issues facing our customers. It also offered the opportunity to hear how their peers are addressing these business challenges through their use of glovia.com," said Yuji Nakasu, president and CEO for Glovia International. "Participants gained valuable insight and knowledge of new, innovative strategies that will enable them to be more competitive and enhance their business operations."
This year's conference featured more than 20 "best practice" presentations from a variety of Glovia customers. The executive-level presentations provided attendees with a detailed view into companies' business strategies as well as demonstrated how each customer is successfully using glovia.com to manage and execute their business operations. Senior-level manufacturing executives from a wide range of industries delivered the presentations. Presenting companies included:
| • Advantest Information Systems | • Listowel Technology | ||
| • Avery Dennison | • Munters | ||
| • Axcelis Technologies | • Portola Packaging | ||
| • Daktronics | • Rietschle Thomas | ||
| • East Penn Manufacturing | • Tyco International | ||
| • Florida Pneumatic | • Varco International | ||
| • Keihin | • Xante Corporation |
"The Glovia International User Group Board of Directors and I are extremely grateful to those who volunteered to present at this year's conference helping to make it another very successful event," said Ken McAninch, president of the Glovia International User Group. "This year's conference was one of our largest turn outs ever and provided attendees with informative sessions, presentations and discussion forums to help them learn "best practices" for optimizing their business operations through the use of glovia.com"
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About Glovia International
Glovia International, Inc., a subsidiary of Fujitsu (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 6702), is one of the world's most experienced and solidly backed providers of extended ERP solutions for businesses of any size - from small and mid-sized companies to global enterprises. The powerful and flexible Glovia ERP suite, glovia.com, provides for the unique needs of engineer-to-order, make-to-order, high volume and mixed-mode manufacturing environments through comprehensive, end-to-end functionality for the entire product lifecycle. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Glovia has helped manufacturers to cut costs, improve productivity, and meet customer demands for over 30 years. For more information, please visit www.glovia.com or call (800) 223-3799.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting technologies, highly reliable computing and communications platforms, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$45 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004. For more information, please see: www.fujitsu.com.
