SmartOps Corporation, the leading enterprise-class supply chain optimization solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Steve Piotraczk as Senior Vice President of Global Sales, effective March 19, 2012.

“Steve has more than 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the supply chain software and service industries,” said Martin Barkman, President and CEO of SmartOps. “He will be responsible for leading and executing our sales strategy by driving new client revenue in conjunction with SAP and direct channels. His expertise and network through SAP and the business community will be a great asset to our company.”

Piotraczk has held key sales leadership roles and drove rapid revenue growth at multiple software solution companies including SAP, Ariba, JM Solutions (a division of JM Family Enterprises), FreeMarkets, Reynolds and Reynolds, and General Motors.

“I am excited to take on this new responsibility to further increase sales worldwide for the leader in the industry,” said Piotraczk. “I look forward to ensuring that our customers reach optimal success and achieve the greatest business benefit with their inventory optimization initiatives.”

About SmartOps

SmartOps is supply chain planning that right sizes inventory and captures more sales for global enterprises. SmartOps captures the full complexity and uncertainty of your global supply chain, and makes managing it simple. Deploying SmartOps’ solutions has dramatically improved supply chain performance at Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies in discrete manufacturing, consumer durables and packaged goods, technology, pharmaceutical manufacturing, distribution, chemicals and retail industries. SmartOps is an SAP Solution Extension partner and integrates with all leading enterprise application platforms.