Number of employees NA Headquarters Chicago Type Privately held company | Website www.johngalt.com Founded 1996 | |
Industry Supply Chain Management
Enterprise Software Key people Anne Omrod, Co-founder and CEO Profiles | ||
John Galt Solutions is a software company that provides forecasting and supply chain management software solutions.
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Company Overview
John Galt Solutions is a privately held software company that provides forecasting and supply chain planning solutions for mid-market companies.
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Chicago, they claim more than 5,000 customers use John Galt Solutions products every day.
History
John Galt Solutions was founded in 1996 by co-founders Annemarie Omrod and Kai Trepte. The company is named after the iconic figure in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged, John Galt. John Galt Solutions' initial projects involved building data warehouses for utility companies. In 1997, John Galt Solutions built its forecasting tool the ForecastX Wizard. In December 1998, ForecastX competed in the M3 Forecasting Competition, an academic forecasting accuracy competition sponsored by Insead University, finishing in the top two positions in all categories.
In conjunction with Holt Wilson (Central Michigan University) and Barry Keating (Notre Dame University), John Galt Solutions published Business Forecasting (6th Edition). This textbook, on forecasting methods and the practical issues related to forecasting, is used in over 60 universities.
Founder Annemarie Omrod has contributed to several academic journals including the Harvard Business Review and quoted in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics newsletter
The company has strategic partnerships with PeopleSoft, Oracle, Infor and QAD.