News | July 3, 2006

Tourtellotte Solutions Unveils Ground-Breaking Clinical Supply Chain Management Solution For The Pharmaceutical Industry

tcVisualize™ 2.0 Enables More Efficient Planning, Managing and Control of the Clinical Supply Chain

Tourtellotte Solutions, a global leader in custom and packaged supply chain software for the pharmaceutical, retail, and consumer goods markets, today announced the latest release of its ground-breaking product — tcVisualize™ 2.0 — the only tool on the market designed specifically to help pharmaceutical companies plan, manage and control the clinical supply chain. The latest release of tcVisualize offers enhanced functionality by providing live supply chain browsing and sim-forward capabilities, allowing pharmaceutical companies to know in real-time the location of supplies today, tomorrow or in a week.

By implementing a clinical supply simulator, pharmaceutical companies can now save millions of dollars by improving manufacturing decisions, reducing waste, ensuring drug and patient safety and ultimately getting drugs to the approval stage faster.

"We designed tcVisualize 2.0 to fill a void in the supply chain process that has become increasingly painful for the pharmaceutical industry," said Ed Tourtellotte, president and CEO of Tourtellotte Solutions. "Until tcVisualize, no product existed that could graphically model and forecast all of the complexities of the clinical supply chain."

In addition to numerous usability enhancements, tcVisualize 2.0 provides a blind user mode for browsing live study data, enhanced reporting capabilities that allow managers to create and contrast scenarios, and cost modeling and tracking features for shipments and drug supplies. This release also enables users to access and walk through historical study data, and then simulate out into the future. These capabilities combined allow users to answer a host of very important questions such as how much overage to produce, how long existing supplies will last, how much cost and waste is built in to a model, and when milestone dates such as end of enrollment and end of study will occur.

For more information on Tourtellotte Solutions and tcVisualize 2.0, go to www.tourtellottesolutions.com.

About Tourtellotte Solutions
Tourtellotte Solutions is a global leader in custom and packaged supply chain software for the pharmaceutical, retail, and consumer goods markets. The RockBlocks® product is the most widely adopted sourcing product on the planet for retail, consumer goods and branded apparel and footwear manufacturers and currently processes billions of dollars of transactions each year in over 50 countries. Companies using RockBlocks include Staples, Target, Radio Shack, JC Penney, The Home Depot, Saks, Federated Department Stores, Lenox, Timberland, Payless, Stride Rite and Sara Lee. The tcVisualize product is a groundbreaking clinical supply chain modeling and forecasting product for the pharmaceutical industry and is currently in use at several major pharmaceuticals. Tourtellotte Solutions is a privately held company headquartered in Wayland, Massachusetts. For more information on Tourtellotte Solutions, please call Gary Hynes at 866.853.2770 x 110 or visit www.tourtellottesolutions.com.