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Hitachi Consulting Teams with SAP to Serve F&B Companies
Dallas, TX — July 11, 2006 — Hitachi Consulting, the consulting company of Hitachi, Ltd. (NSYE: HIT), and SAP America, Inc. announced today an alliance to jointly serve middle market food and beverage manufacturers and processors with best practices and solutions ranging from IT strategy to operations.
Hitachi Consulting, experienced in implementing SAP® applications in the food and beverage industry for both large and mid-market companies, will support SAP’s best practices model and will deliver the full suite of SAP products.
“This Alliance brings together a proven SAP solution to the specific needs of food and beverage manufacturers, and the deep industry expertise of Hitachi Consulting. The combination will enable a faster, lower cost, lower risk implementation, through the use of industry specific processes, pre-configured software, and a proven methodology,” said John Clark, National SAP alliance leader for Hitachi Consulting. “Combined with Hitachi Consulting’s established presence in the food and beverage mid-market industry segment, our mutual customers will benefit from an integrated business system that will lead to more effective execution in the market place.”
“Food and beverage, as well as other packaged goods companies, are being pressured more than ever to be highly responsive to changing competitive, market and supply conditions. The Market Responsive Company needs to be tightly integrated in order to respond quickly to stimuli from the market, trading partners and consumers,” said to Stephen Brant, leader of Hitachi Consulting’s Food & Beverage Consumer Packaged Goods industry program. “This level of integration can most easily be achieved when industry specific strategy, processes and business systems are brought together in a thoughtful way. We believe that our alliance with SAP creates a unique platform for achieving this level of food and beverage industry specific business integration.”
This new alliance comes on the heels of a recent acknowledgement by Consumer Goods Technology, which ranked Hitachi Consulting on its annual Top 10 list of service providers to consumer goods companies. Included on this year’s list are multi-billion dollar global consultancies and others focused wholly in the CPG industry. “That placement,” stated Mr. Brant, “acknowledges our success in this industry space as a unique company with the breadth and depth of much larger consultancies and with the focus of narrow industry specialists. The alliance with SAP only strengthens our breadth, depth and focus.”
About Hitachi Consulting
As Hitachi, Ltd.’s (NYSE: HIT) global consulting company, with operations in the US, Europe and Asia, Hitachi Consulting is a recognized leader in delivering proven business and IT solutions to Global 2000 companies across many industries. We leverage decades of business process, vertical industry, and leading-edge technology experience to understand each company's unique business needs. From business strategy development through application deployment, our consultants are committed to helping clients quickly realize measurable business value and achieve sustainable ROI.
Hitachi Consulting's client base includes nearly 35 percent of the Fortune 100 and 25 percent of the Global 100 as well as many leading mid-market companies. We offer a client-focused, collaborative approach and transfer knowledge throughout each engagement. For more information, call 1.877.664.0010 or visit www.hitachiconsulting.com.
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About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 356,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2005 (ended March 31, 2006) consolidated sales totaled 9,464 billion yen ($80.9 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
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