Radio France Thinks Strategically and Selects Quintiq Solution for Advanced, Long-term Planning

Radio France Thinks Strategically and Selects Quintiq Solution for Advanced, Long-term Planning

'S HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands, August 17, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling
[http://www.quintiq.com/solutions/advanced-planning-and-scheduling.aspx ]
(APS) solutions, today announced that Radio France, the French public
service radio broadcaster, has chosen a Quintiq multi-resource planning
solution
[http://www.quintiq.com/industries/broadcast-and-post-production.aspx ] to
handle strategic, tactical and operational planning throughout the
organization. The Quintiq solution will schedule all of Radio France's
production personnel and resources and will support the company's long-term,
strategic programming decision making.

Ordina, a Quintiq business partner, was active in the contract tender
and will conduct the implementation.

Solving planning complexity

With seven national networks and more than 4200 employees, Radio France
is one of Europe's largest radio broadcasters. Headquartered in Paris with
numerous local stations, Radio France is the primary producer of programming
for France's radio audience.

With over 60 studios in its main building dedicated to different types
of program production such as news, talk shows, documentaries, drama and
music, and with outside production vehicles and many different technician
profiles, production scheduling is very complex. Currently, production
planning at Radio France is conducted by 20 people using 10 different and
separate spreadsheets. As a result, it is very complicated to share
resources between the networks.

Three planning horizons and fast deployment

Quintiq was the sole vendor that could provide a standard but highly
flexible planning solution that could be fully configured to Radio France's
specific needs. Powered by a sophisticated optimization technology platform
[http://www.quintiq.com/solutions/employee-planning-and-scheduling/workforce-planning.aspx ]
, Quintiq solutions can be configured with relative ease and
speed to match the complex requirements of environments such as Radio
France's production.

"We could have chosen a traditional off-the-shelf application but it
would not have had the flexibility to grow with us," explained Thibaud des
Dorides, project manager at Radio France. "With Quintiq, we benefit from
fast deployment and a 100% fit, now and in the future."

The two-phase project started in late January, with the implementation
of the tactical and operational planning. Phase two: long-term, strategic
planning, will start soon. Both phases will run in parallel until the
completion of the final project which is expected in Q4 2011.

Standardized processes and high quality planning

With all of its resources in a single planning system, Radio France will
be able to benefit from standardized, user-friendly planning processes. It
will be able to improve resource productivity and resource sharing between
its networks. Managers will be able to view scenarios to compare different
programming options and their feasibility.

Wouter Tielemans, APS Business Unit Director at Ordina stated: "Having
conducted many similar implementations throughout Europe, we have grown to
understand the unique planning needs of broadcasting organizations. Quintiq
will give Radio France's managers a global overview of the organization and
visibility into inefficiencies and opportunities for resource sharing. We
are confident the quality of the plans will surpass Radio France's
expectations."

Arjen Heeres, COO at Quintiq added: "We are seeing more and more of
Europe's broadcasters benefiting from the adoption of strategic planning.
Strategic planning will support Radio France in staying within budget while
still providing the quality, innovative programming French speakers
worldwide have to come expect."

About Radio France
http://www.radiofrance.fr

About Ordina
http://www.ordina.be

About Quintiq
Quintiq provides advanced employee & resource scheduling
[http://www.quintiq.com/solutions/employee-planning-and-scheduling.aspx ]
along with supply chain optimization software
[http://www.quintiq.com/solutions/supply-chain-planning/supply-chain-optimization.aspx ]
software solutions. This fast-growing company, established in
1997, offers and implements software for planning and optimizing complex
business processes throughout the enterprise. The company's worldwide
headquarters are located in The Netherlands and the USA with subsidiaries in
Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom.
Quintiq systems are implemented in 76 countries worldwide. More at
http://www.quintiq.com

Source: Quintiq

Contact: Saskia van Nieuwenhuizen, Workforce Marketing, Quintiq, saskia.van.nieuwenhuizen@quintiq.com , Tel: +31(0)736910739

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