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Tieto helps Billerud to integrate former UPM paper machines
Billerud, Swedish manufacturer of strong primary fibre-based packaging material, recently acquired two paper machines in Finland from UPM. Tieto helps Billerud to dismount the production systems from UPM and later integrate them into Billerud with Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS. It will also modify the parts that will be shared between the two companies.
After the approval of EU authorities at the beginning of June, Billerud now needs to take up the running of the paper machines quickly in just four months. In addition, the mills need to function totally in the Billerud business set up.
Billerud already uses TIPS for their production planning and the integration will simplify the business processes with a tight integration to Billerud's sales system. The new TIPS installation will also improve the transparency and traceability of the business and give better utilization of the warehouses in the planning process.
"We wanted to run this critical project with the minimum risk. We need to integrate the former UPM paper machines into our own business fast and there is no time for errors. Therefore we needed a partner who understands the business of both companies. We also need a manufacturing execution system with extensive functionality, and Tieto and TIPS can well live up to the challenge," tells Marcus Brånfelt, CIO, Billerud.
"The speed of the implementation makes this a challenging project but using the standard pulp, paper and board industry product, we are able to succeed in this. The people working at the mills will be able to continue working with familiar tools," explains Mats Lidström from Tieto.
Tieto Integrated Paper Solution TIPS provides a proven real-time operations management solution by seamlessly linking planning, business operations, and production processes of a forest company. It combines the functionality and the best practices of four previous advanced Sales and MES systems and over 30 years experience and offers management of the whole order-to-cash value chain.
Tieto appoints Kimmo Alkio as President and CEO
Tieto Corporation’s Board of Directors has appointed Kimmo Alkio President and CEO as of 1 November 2011. Alkio joins Tieto from F-Secure Corporation where he has been working as the President and CEO since 2006.
Kimmo Alkio (born 1963) is a Finnish citizen and holds a BBA degree from Texas A&M University and Executive MBA degree from Helsinki University of Technology. Alkio has been a member of Tieto’s Board of Directors and its Remuneration Committee since 2009. He will resign from the Remuneration Committee immediately.
Kimmo Alkio has over 20-years experience from senior positions in various large and smaller product- and service-oriented technology companies. Prior to his current position as the President and CEO of F-Secure, he has worked in Nokia Corporation (2005–2006) as the Vice President for the Consulting & System Integration business and as a member of the Global Services Business Unit management team within Networks. Between 2001 and 2005, Alkio worked in F-Secure as the Chief Operating Officer and before 2001, he worked 14 years in Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer in numerous management positions with both European and global responsibilities in the headquarter operations in Switzerland, Germany and the United States.
“I am pleased to announce the appointment of Kimmo Alkio as Tieto’s new President and CEO. Kimmo has vast experience from the IT industry in various global management positions. He has also gained experience as a CEO of a listed company, which was one of the key criteria in our CEO selection process. Furthermore, Kimmo has an excellent track record as a leader. Having been a Board member in Tieto for two years he already knows the company well, which is a clear advantage,” says Markku Pohjola, Chairman of the Board.
“I take on my new role as the President and CEO of Tieto with a great deal of enthusiasm. The company has a well established position in the Northern European IT services market, which serves as a solid foundation for future results and expansion. I also expect to personally bring a good degree of global experience for our future competitiveness and operational execution. I look forward to working with our customers and employees in creating customer experiences that take us to a successful and innovative future,” states Kimmo Alkio.
Tieto to modernize mill systems in M-real's board mills
Tieto is modernizing the mill systems in M-real's board mills in Finland, which will be completed by the end of 2012. According to the agreement signed by the parties, the mills are implementing the latest versions of the Tieto Integrated Paper Solution (TIPS). Tieto is also responsible for the maintenance service of the systems.
The TIPS manufacturing execution solution will allow further standardization of production management business processes as well as the seamless integration of production with M-real's SAP Enterprise Resource Planning. The benefits include improved visibility of information that is critical to the business.
"Tieto's solution meets our expectations very well, and the special features required by our mill operations are easy to integrate with it. The strength of the solution is its user-friendliness. We have used TIPS for ten years, and during this time Tieto has developed the solution in such a way that we have now at our disposal new features that are beneficial to our operational environment," says Jukka Kettunen, responsible for production at M-real.
"I believe that our strengthened co-operation will further improve both the maximization of the availability of M-real's mills and the standardization of their business processes. The standardized toolset of the new TIPS solution supports more efficiently the optimization of the production capacity of the mills," says Ari Järvelä, responsible for Finnish and Baltic businesses.
Hundreds of paper, pulp and board mills all over the world use Tieto's systems on a daily basis to manage their processes.
M-real's Consumer Packaging business area is the world's leading producer of innovative premium folding boxboard, coated white top liners and wallpaper base. The products are excellent for the packaging of cosmetics, food products and confectionaries, for example.