MELBOURNE, Australia, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) solutions, today announced that Paul Sherrington is joining the Australia New Zealand team as Business Development Manager.

Sherrington has over 10 years of international software industry experience and joins Quintiq from McAfee as a corporate account executive. One of his key initiatives will be to help close cpurrent opportunities with a focus to further expand and grow the Workforce segment of the business in the region.

Paul Sherrington has a wealth of experience in Workforce Management which will bolster our expertise in that sector of the business, said Rob van Egmond, Director Quintiq Australia.

Founded in Europe in 1997, Quintiq created the Australia New Zealand Business Unit in January 2008. The four verticals the ANZ office focuses on are Logistics, Metals, Manufacturing, and Workforce.

I am excited about the opportunity to work with Quintiq. The advanced planning and scheduling capabilities of the software provide a unique value proposition for resource intensive organizations states Sherrington. I feel we have something special to offer, and I am looking forward to further expand the success of Quintiq in the workforce sector.

Quintiq Australia is continuing to hire more staff as the overall outlook for 2009 is strong. We are still seeing strong demand in our target markets. No doubt this is because we provide a way for our customers to tighten their belts and optimise their current operations, so as conditions become tougher they can still find ways to improve their profits, states van Egmond.

About Quintiq

Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain management solutions. The fast-growing company, established in 1997, offers software for planning and optimizing complex business processes throughout the enterprise. The company's headquarters are located in the Netherlands and it has subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, UK, and the USA. For more information: http://www.quintiq.com.

For more information, please contact: Quintiq Australia Robin Sands Marketing Executive T: +61-3-9867-4927 E: robin.sands@quintiq.com

For more information, please contact: Quintiq Australia, Robin Sands, Marketing Executive, T: +61-3-9867-4927, E: robin.sands@quintiq.com