DuPont Performance Coatings Expands Agreement to Leverage Digital Tempus Portfolio and Planning Expertise through Consulting and Business Intelligence Services

GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Digital Tempus^®, providing the process expertise, strategic insight and talent development to help innovative companies plan for growth, today announced that DuPont Performance Coatings in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has renewed its commitment to drive demand-driven strategies and world-class performance with Digital Tempus through expanded use of the company’s consulting and business intelligence services. Digital Tempus has helped DuPont Performance Coatings realize and sustain significant improvements in forecast accuracy and substantial financial benefits derived from improved service to customers and increased operating efficiencies.

Since its initial engagement in 2007, Digital Tempus has helped DuPont Performance Coatings develop and advance the company’s planning capabilities through process improvements, talent development and tuning of enterprise planning systems. Additionally, Digital Tempus’ Business Intelligence Services integrate DuPont Performance Coatings EMEA’s planning and transactional data to develop insightful content and highlight priorities that help teams target performance improvements and drive more effective decision-making. The new capabilities support the company’s DuPont Integrated Business Management (DIBM) process.

"As one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world, DuPont operates on a scale than spans many complex products, markets, and geographies," said Paul Strzelec, CEO, Digital Tempus. "DuPont Performance Coatings EMEA’s step-change in planning accuracy, and success sustaining performance through dynamic market conditions, illustrates the strategic role of world-class portfolio and planning capabilities and how aligning go-to-market and operational decision-making can drive growth."

Through its partnership with Digital Tempus, DuPont Performance Coatings EMEA transformed the company’s planning mindset and capabilities from supply-driven to demand-driven, introducing a go-to-market planning process that connects operational planning to customer requirements and market trends through an integrated planning process. With this transformation, Digital Tempus introduced a new multi-level planning structure, portfolio segmentation techniques and enhanced planning practices that balance the use of data-driven insights with intelligence gathered from Marketing and Sales teams. Additionally, Digital Tempus provides an integrated financial perspective that is used by Finance and Business Operations to monitor margins and assess the impact of global currencies on operational performance of the business.

"Digital Tempus’ consulting and business intelligence services have been instrumental in helping us plan our business, drive growth and realize new efficiencies," said Pierrick Le-Gallo, Sales Director DuPont Performance Coatings EMEA. "Digital Tempus understands how to partner for our success, and our decision to renew our commitment to the relationship with Digital Tempus is based on targeted improvements that this team continues to help us uncover."

To learn more about how Digital Tempus’ consulting and business intelligence services are helping global manufacturers drive differentiated performance, visit www.digitaltempus.com.

About DuPont
DuPont (www.DuPont.com) is a science-based products and services company. Founded in 1802, DuPont puts science to work by creating sustainable solutions essential to a better, safer, healthier life for people everywhere. Operating in more than 90 countries, DuPont offers a wide range of innovative products and services for markets including agriculture and food; building and construction; communications; and transportation.

About Digital Tempus
Digital Tempus provides process expertise, strategic insight and talent development to help global companies improve strategic and operational planning capabilities. The combination of experience and business intelligence services defines Digital Tempus’ unique approach that supports the world’s most admired companies in their efforts to plan better, improve decision-making, enable more effective execution and consistently create opportunities to drive profitable growth. These companies include leaders in their fields such as Church & Dwight, Co., DuPont, McCormick, and Nalco. Digital Tempus has offices in the United States and Europe and can be found on the web at www.digitaltempus.com.

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