GOUDA, The Netherlands and RENENS, Switzerland, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- "By Combining our Strengths, We'll be Able to Support our Clients With
Consulting as Well as With Advanced Planning and Decision Making Software"

ORTEC, one of the largest providers of advanced planning software and
consulting services, and Brightrivers have joined their expertise. This
provides the process industry with a unique high value consulting approach
and advanced planning software that supports their industrial decision making
process. The purpose of this unique service is to significantly develop the
process industry profitability and to make investment and cost savings while
guaranteeing the highest customer satisfaction. "By combining our strengths,
we'll be able to support our clients with consulting as well as with advanced
planning and decision making software", says Lambert van der Bruggen, board
member of ORTEC.

Both companies share the same consulting culture, and use the same
modeling methodology that combines systems thinking and constraints analysis
to describe complex business problems. "Our company cultures are very much
alike. That's why Brightrivers is so happy with this match. No one
understands us better than they do", says Jean Gayral, founder of
Brightrivers.

The high value consulting of Brightrivers together with the optimization
software and consulting of ORTEC provides the process industry with a
solution to support strategic decisions (i.e. investment deployment, supply
chain and manufacturing network design) as well as tactical decisions
regarding the industrial structure (i.e. design of optimal production and
distribution concepts, and improvement of the supply chain).

As a subsidiary of ORTEC, Brightrivers will continue its consulting
services to their clients. "Nothing will change for our clients. We will
continue to consult our clients with our unique high value approach as they
are used from us. However, in cooperation with ORTEC we will be able to
address the challenges of the entire supply chain including manufacturing
issues as well as logistic issues", says Jean Gayral. With the Brightrivers
highly qualified expertise, ORTEC intends to also become a leading consulting
firm in the strategic industrial decision making support.

About ORTEC

ORTEC is one of the largest providers of advanced planning and
optimization software solutions and consulting services. Our solutions result
in optimized fleet routing & dispatch, vehicle and pallet loading, workforce
scheduling, delivery forecasting and network planning. ORTEC provides both
best-of-breed, custom made and SAP(R) certified solutions, supported by
strategic partnerships. ORTEC has over 800 customers worldwide, 600 employees
and several offices in Europe and North America.

About ORTEC Brightrivers

ORTEC Brightrivers’ highly experienced experts in both logistic and
manufacturing areas work with in-house developed state-of-the-art decision
making software that allows them to build detailed models of any industrial
challenge, to solve any industrial complex multiple constraint problem, to
conduct "what-if" scenarios and to find the optimal strategy of change. ORTEC
Brightrivers has accumulated a customer base in global logistics and
manufacturing, including Roche, Janssen-Cilag, Dupont, Invista, O-I,
UCB-Pharma, Sygenta.