User talk:LLamasoft, Inc.

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Unblock Spamun

 * Note: I've adjusted the formatting of Llamasoft's original edit so that the unblock template would work. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 19:07, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Although I am understanding that I have been blocked and denied again. I am the person who will manage the page and only person with a log in. Is there a person that can call me or I can speak with directly. As I see many other companies listed on Wikipedia with products and explaining their companies with information. Just trying to understand the difference. All communication and assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you- 734-418-3119 ext. 196
 * Here's the part you don't seem to be understanding: under no circumstances are you (or any other company representative, of any company) allowed to "manage the page". Even if there were an article on Llamasoft on Wikipedia, a PR person for Llamasoft, Inc. would have no more say in what it contained than any other Wikipedia editor. Editing here is done according to Wikipedia policy, not according to the wishes of the article subject. Because Wikipedia is written and run by volunteers, there is no "customer service agent" to whom you can place a phone call and no single final authority to whom you can appeal. Depending on what you want to discuss with another party, there are a couple of avenues open to you. If you want to discuss issues with Wikipedia's content (for example, if an article has incorrect information and you want it corrected), you can contact our Volunteer Response Team at info-en@wikimedia.org, but that group does not have the ability to unblock you, nor do they have the ability to make edits contrary to Wikipedia policy (so, for example, they will not be able to create an article for you, nor will they be able to edit Wikipedia in a way that anyone else would not be allowed to). If you want to appeal your block again, you can either post another unblock request here (using the "unblock" template as you did above) or you can submit a private appeal to our Unblock Ticket system by following the link on that page. If you make another unblock request at either place, the appeal will be handled by another administrator, not me, so that we can be sure fresh eyes are addressing the issue. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 20:22, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for responding I will submit another appeal. However, I am still wondering how other companies are on Wikipedia, promoting their information (about them) and products. LLamasoft was shut down, and now being blocked. Example: RKA Petrolum, ProQuest, Etc... again thank you for your assistance. Basically our President can make a page speaking of himself?

Unblock Request
I would like to submit a request to be unblocked and change the username to: Donald A. Hicks. I understand the reasoning for the past blocks and will make certain I follow guidelines and criteria. Below is the details and information I would like on the Wiki page. Donald A. Hicks is an American businessman, speaker and author. He is the president and CEO of LLamasoft, Inc., a supply chain design software company. Hicks created LLamasoft because the industry needed a solution, and Hicks felt that, “if I didn’t make this happen, maybe no one would.”

Youth and Entrepreneurship

First as a young military officer recently graduated from West Point and later as an operations consultant, Hicks established a pattern of aiming to be the best in his field. Within a few years of leaving the US Army in 1993, Hicks had become a leading expert on computer simulation and modeling approaches for manufacturing and logistics applications. He founded his first company, Decision Sciences Inc., in 1995. Even though he was only 27 at the time, Hicks decided to trust his own ideas, and spent the next six months in his apartment writing a new product called SimRunner, which became the first off-the-shelf simulation/optimization package. Hicks successfully sold the company after just a few years of growth. Business and Growth Donald Hicks originally founded LLamasoft in 1998 to address a problem that had no solution. Noting how much customers struggled to “code” models, Hicks realized that customers needed a way to automatically generate logistics simulations from their existing data sources without having to write all the code themselves. Because Hicks’ existing company wasn’t interested in creating any new products at the time, Hicks was able to negotiate a small amount of capital (under $100k) and license the work he had been developing into a new company: LLamasoft. After working alone as both engineer and hands-on software coder, Hicks successfully created a simulation program he dubbed “Supply Chain Guru”. At this point, in 1999, at the height of the Internet bubble, Hicks had a key realization that changed the course of the company. Previously, Hicks had planned to sell his “supply chain simulator” to existing users of a technology called “network optimization.” Supply Chain Network Optimization was a very powerful and popular technique used by medium and large companies to find ways to cut costs and improve their supply chains. Hicks had planned to partner with existing vendors and providers, and sell the new simulator as an add-on tool and counterpart to their existing offering, targeting a ready-made and easily identified market. The problem was, during this time, supply chain companies were not trying to innovate, they were trying to consolidate through mergers and acquisitions. After talking to every company in the market place, Hicks was unable to find a partner willing to make a deal to distribute the new product. Hicks decided to test out the possibility of implementing a new optimization engine himself, directly in Supply Chain Guru. During the two weeks of the holidays, using publicly available information, Hicks implemented an optimizer directly into Supply Chain Guru, and in doing so, found an innovation that would totally change the industry. What Hicks’ new product revealed and effectively solved for is that when using one modeling technique or another (simulation, optimization, inventory optimization), an analyst can lose track of what’s real: he or she can confuse the model with reality and ignore the limitations inherent in the model. In Supply Chain Guru, testing the new capability to both optimize AND simulate supply chain models, Hicks realized that the analyst has the ability to use multiple models on the same data set, each model offsetting the weaknesses and limitations of the other approach. In other words, the total was greater than the sum of the parts. 1 + 1 = 3! Hicks and LLamasoft co-founder Toby Brzoznowski re-started LLamasoft and in 2004, Supply Chain Guru Version 2.0 was released. In 2010, LLamasoft surpassed IBM as the market leader in supply chain network design software. In 2011, Hicks and LLamasoft won the title of “Best Product or Service” at the Innovate Michigan Business Plan Competition, the largest single business plan competition in the world. Innovative Approaches and Public Health Initiatives Hicks began to develop a Public Health practice inside of LLamasoft. In 2009 LLamasoft was selected by John Snow, Inc., a non-profit that handles the logistics of aid and medicine distribution for USAID, to help solve the problem. This practice is led personally by Hicks, who puts himself on the ground as the lead engineer in many of these engagements. Hicks has personally visited and worked with the governments in Lesotho, Kenya, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. His team has also worked in Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Tanzania, Panama, and Guatemala. Hicks was most recently on the ground in Nairobi, working as the lead supply chain consultant for the World Bank, analyzing supply methods to the most poverty stricken parts of Kenya (study to be published later this year) and was an invited speaker at Georgia Tech’s March 2011 Conference on Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain. LLamasoft’s current public health partners include the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Clinton Initiative, SCMS, JSI, Georgia Tech, MIT, and many others, not to mention the various governments and ministries they work with around the world. Hicks was included in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know" Award Winners list in 2013 and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalist in 2011.

Follow Up from Unblock Request
I would like to follow up from last weeks request to unblock using a new username: Don Hicks. Could you please update me of the status. Thank you!

Unblock request
I would like to submit a request to be unblocked and change the username to: Donald A. Hicks. I understand the reasoning for the past blocks and will make certain I follow guidelines and criteria. Below is the details and information I would like on the Wiki page.

Donald A. Hicks is an American businessman, speaker and author. He is the president and CEO of LLamasoft, Inc., a supply chain design software company. Hicks created LLamasoft because the industry needed a solution, and Hicks felt that, “if I didn’t make this happen, maybe no one would.”

Youth and Entrepreneurship

First as a young military officer recently graduated from West Point and later as an operations consultant, Hicks established a pattern of aiming to be the best in his field. Within a few years of leaving the US Army in 1993, Hicks had become a leading expert on computer simulation and modeling approaches for manufacturing and logistics applications. He founded his first company, Decision Sciences Inc., in 1995. Even though he was only 27 at the time, Hicks decided to trust his own ideas, and spent the next six months in his apartment writing a new product called SimRunner, which became the first off-the-shelf simulation/optimization package. Hicks successfully sold the company after just a few years of growth. Business and Growth Donald Hicks originally founded LLamasoft in 1998 to address a problem that had no solution. Noting how much customers struggled to “code” models, Hicks realized that customers needed a way to automatically generate logistics simulations from their existing data sources without having to write all the code themselves. Because Hicks’ existing company wasn’t interested in creating any new products at the time, Hicks was able to negotiate a small amount of capital (under $100k) and license the work he had been developing into a new company: LLamasoft. After working alone as both engineer and hands-on software coder, Hicks successfully created a simulation program he dubbed “Supply Chain Guru”. At this point, in 1999, at the height of the Internet bubble, Hicks had a key realization that changed the course of the company. Previously, Hicks had planned to sell his “supply chain simulator” to existing users of a technology called “network optimization.” Supply Chain Network Optimization was a very powerful and popular technique used by medium and large companies to find ways to cut costs and improve their supply chains. Hicks had planned to partner with existing vendors and providers, and sell the new simulator as an add-on tool and counterpart to their existing offering, targeting a ready-made and easily identified market. The problem was, during this time, supply chain companies were not trying to innovate, they were trying to consolidate through mergers and acquisitions. After talking to every company in the market place, Hicks was unable to find a partner willing to make a deal to distribute the new product. Hicks decided to test out the possibility of implementing a new optimization engine himself, directly in Supply Chain Guru. During the two weeks of the holidays, using publicly available information, Hicks implemented an optimizer directly into Supply Chain Guru, and in doing so, found an innovation that would totally change the industry. What Hicks’ new product revealed and effectively solved for is that when using one modeling technique or another (simulation, optimization, inventory optimization), an analyst can lose track of what’s real: he or she can confuse the model with reality and ignore the limitations inherent in the model. In Supply Chain Guru, testing the new capability to both optimize AND simulate supply chain models, Hicks realized that the analyst has the ability to use multiple models on the same data set, each model offsetting the weaknesses and limitations of the other approach. In other words, the total was greater than the sum of the parts. 1 + 1 = 3! Hicks and LLamasoft co-founder Toby Brzoznowski re-started LLamasoft and in 2004, Supply Chain Guru Version 2.0 was released. In 2010, LLamasoft surpassed IBM as the market leader in supply chain network design software. In 2011, Hicks and LLamasoft won the title of “Best Product or Service” at the Innovate Michigan Business Plan Competition, the largest single business plan competition in the world. Innovative Approaches and Public Health Initiatives Hicks began to develop a Public Health practice inside of LLamasoft. In 2009 LLamasoft was selected by John Snow, Inc., a non-profit that handles the logistics of aid and medicine distribution for USAID, to help solve the problem. This practice is led personally by Hicks, who puts himself on the ground as the lead engineer in many of these engagements. Hicks has personally visited and worked with the governments in Lesotho, Kenya, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. His team has also worked in Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Tanzania, Panama, and Guatemala. Hicks was most recently on the ground in Nairobi, working as the lead supply chain consultant for the World Bank, analyzing supply methods to the most poverty stricken parts of Kenya (study to be published later this year) and was an invited speaker at Georgia Tech’s March 2011 Conference on Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain. LLamasoft’s current public health partners include the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Clinton Initiative, SCMS, JSI, Georgia Tech, MIT, and many others, not to mention the various governments and ministries they work with around the world. Hicks was included in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know" Award Winners list in 2013 and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalist in 2011.

Unblock Spamun
I would like to submit a request to be unblocked and change the username to: Donald A. Hicks. I understand the reasoning for the past blocks and will make certain I follow guidelines and criteria. Below is the details and information I would like on the Wiki page. Donald A. Hicks is an American businessman, speaker and author. He is the president and CEO of LLamasoft, Inc., a supply chain design software company. Hicks created LLamasoft because the industry needed a solution, and Hicks felt that, “if I didn’t make this happen, maybe no one would.” Youth and Entrepreneurship First as a young military officer recently graduated from West Point and later as an operations consultant, Hicks established a pattern of aiming to be the best in his field. Within a few years of leaving the US Army in 1993, Hicks had become a leading expert on computer simulation and modeling approaches for manufacturing and logistics applications. He founded his first company, Decision Sciences Inc., in 1995. Even though he was only 27 at the time, Hicks decided to trust his own ideas, and spent the next six months in his apartment writing a new product called SimRunner, which became the first off-the-shelf simulation/optimization package. Hicks successfully sold the company after just a few years of growth. Business and Growth Donald Hicks originally founded LLamasoft in 1998 to address a problem that had no solution. Noting how much customers struggled to “code” models, Hicks realized that customers needed a way to automatically generate logistics simulations from their existing data sources without having to write all the code themselves. Because Hicks’ existing company wasn’t interested in creating any new products at the time, Hicks was able to negotiate a small amount of capital (under $100k) and license the work he had been developing into a new company: LLamasoft. After working alone as both engineer and hands-on software coder, Hicks successfully created a simulation program he dubbed “Supply Chain Guru”. At this point, in 1999, at the height of the Internet bubble, Hicks had a key realization that changed the course of the company. Previously, Hicks had planned to sell his “supply chain simulator” to existing users of a technology called “network optimization.” Supply Chain Network Optimization was a very powerful and popular technique used by medium and large companies to find ways to cut costs and improve their supply chains. Hicks had planned to partner with existing vendors and providers, and sell the new simulator as an add-on tool and counterpart to their existing offering, targeting a ready-made and easily identified market. The problem was, during this time, supply chain companies were not trying to innovate, they were trying to consolidate through mergers and acquisitions. After talking to every company in the market place, Hicks was unable to find a partner willing to make a deal to distribute the new product. Hicks decided to test out the possibility of implementing a new optimization engine himself, directly in Supply Chain Guru. During the two weeks of the holidays, using publicly available information, Hicks implemented an optimizer directly into Supply Chain Guru, and in doing so, found an innovation that would totally change the industry. What Hicks’ new product revealed and effectively solved for is that when using one modeling technique or another (simulation, optimization, inventory optimization), an analyst can lose track of what’s real: he or she can confuse the model with reality and ignore the limitations inherent in the model. In Supply Chain Guru, testing the new capability to both optimize AND simulate supply chain models, Hicks realized that the analyst has the ability to use multiple models on the same data set, each model offsetting the weaknesses and limitations of the other approach. In other words, the total was greater than the sum of the parts. 1 + 1 = 3! Hicks and LLamasoft co-founder Toby Brzoznowski re-started LLamasoft and in 2004, Supply Chain Guru Version 2.0 was released. In 2010, LLamasoft surpassed IBM as the market leader in supply chain network design software. In 2011, Hicks and LLamasoft won the title of “Best Product or Service” at the Innovate Michigan Business Plan Competition, the largest single business plan competition in the world. Innovative Approaches and Public Health Initiatives Hicks began to develop a Public Health practice inside of LLamasoft. In 2009 LLamasoft was selected by John Snow, Inc., a non-profit that handles the logistics of aid and medicine distribution for USAID, to help solve the problem. This practice is led personally by Hicks, who puts himself on the ground as the lead engineer in many of these engagements. Hicks has personally visited and worked with the governments in Lesotho, Kenya, Dominican Republic, and El Salvador. His team has also worked in Ethiopia, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Tanzania, Panama, and Guatemala. Hicks was most recently on the ground in Nairobi, working as the lead supply chain consultant for the World Bank, analyzing supply methods to the most poverty stricken parts of Kenya (study to be published later this year) and was an invited speaker at Georgia Tech’s March 2011 Conference on Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain. LLamasoft’s current public health partners include the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Clinton Initiative, SCMS, JSI, Georgia Tech, MIT, and many others, not to mention the various governments and ministries they work with around the world. Hicks was included in the Supply & Demand Chain Executive “Pros to Know" Award Winners list in 2013 and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ finalist in 2011.