Symix Systems Inc, the Columbus, Ohio-based provider of integrated manufacturing, planning, and financial software systems has announced it is to purchase Indiana-based Pritsker Corp, a specialist designer of scheduling and planning software for the manufacturing industry. Symix will issue 500,000 shares valuing the transaction at around $9m, of which $6m is to be written off as a non-recurring research and development charge in Symixs second quarter. According to president and chief operating officer Stephen A Sasser, the acquisition will make Symix the first enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor to bring advanced manufacturing scheduling to medium sized companies.
