TietoEnator implements supply chain management system to Stora Enso Packaging

ESPOO, Finland, May 7, 2008 (Press Release) - Stora Enso Packaging has selected TietoEnator to provide the company's new business system for order and supply chain management functionality. The system supports Stora Enso Packaging's customer-oriented operations and will enable the company to take advantage of industry best practices in a development partnership with Lean Projects and OM Partners.

The new system is based on a Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solution and it will be supplemented with two industry-specific vertical solutions for the corrugated board industry: OMP Corrugated Board System extension and Lean Projects Print & Packaging Solution. The OMP system covers a wide range of planning and production control areas, while the Lean Projects solution includes functionality for sales, production management and material management.

Pekka Pesonen, IT Manager of Stora Enso Packaging says: "The new business system covers all of our trade and supply chain operations from sales offer to invoice. Our business is in the middle of continuous changes and it is important that the system can be flexibly developed according to our needs. This modular system provides an immediate solution to the business needs of the packaging industry."

Anttoni Vesterinen, SVP at TietoEnator Forest: "Stora Enso is one of TietoEnator's strategic customers. We are very pleased to expand our partnership with Stora Enso to include the development of packaging solutions. We believe that this system will meet the needs of the corrugated board industry very well and therefore support Stora Enso's packaging business in the best possible way."