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eBreviate Debuts Supply Market Solutions
New Strategic Offering Leverages Sourcing Content to Speed Procurement
WALNUT CREEK, California (March 13, 2001) eBreviate, an EDS
company offering the market-leading suite of eSourcing tools, technologies,
and services, today announced the availability of Supply Market
Solutions, a new offering significantly facilitating and accelerating
the process of researching and developing sourcing strategies for
product and service categories.
eBreviate's Supply Market Solutions provides Category Analysis guidelines
for companies engaging in sourcing projects, along with best practice,
category-specific RFP, RFI and Auction templates.
Procurement teams who face resource constraints are challenged to
expedite sourcing results and savings while reacting to rapidly
changing supply market environments. Supply Market Solutions is
designed to help procurement teams reduce sourcing cycle times by
providing best in class research across a broad range of categories.
Supply Market Solutions builds upon the sourcing tools, custom research
and sourcing content of eBreviate to satisfy customer demands for
accelerated research and better insight into categories.
"Our customers tell us they don't want to reinvent their supply
market solutions. eBreviate's Supply Market Solutions is the right
way to look at best practices and relevant information about their
markets," said Sarah Pfaff, executive vice president of eBreviate.
Supply Market Solutions begins with Category Analysis, a commodity-specific
report that provides high level insights on market dynamics that
includes a definition, followed by a market overview, and a layout
of industry players, substitutes and potential entrants. It continues
with a list of available RFPs and RFIs that have been custom researched
and can be activated using eBreviate's RFP technology. The result
is a fully written proposal delivered electronically for more than
100 categories.
This step then leads to eBreviate's own auction templates.
Product categories range from automotive to chemicals, fabrication
to logistics, packaging to services, supplies and technology. An
eBreviate customer can now, for instance, move easily and sequentially
toward an Internet negotiation by reviewing up-to-date custom research,
applying a best practice RFP and building an event using an eBreviate
auction template. eBreviate customers will access Supply Market
Solutions via a web-based subscription service.
The Supply Market Solutions product is part of eBreviate's complete
suite of eSourcing tools including Supplier Search, Internet Negotiations
(downward and upward auctions), RFP and Sourcing Surveys , Sourcing
Management Technologies, and Value-added Services.
About eBreviate
eBreviate, an EDS company, combines leading-edge technology with
market-driven content and in-field services to deliver the best
eSourcing solutions to global businesses, governments and net markets.
Located in Walnut Creek, California, with regional offices in Plano,
Texas and London,
England, eBreviate enables purchasing organizations to become razor
sharp and rigorous in what they buy, from whom they buy and under
what commercial terms. eBreviate's integrated and automated eSourcing
tools take out time, cost, and inefficiency from the procurement
cycle. This automation brings greater productivity and accountability
to purchasing, while optimizing the way buyers and suppliers qualify,
negotiate, and evaluate their business relationships. eBreviate
can be
found online at www.ebreviate.com.
About EDS
EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation
and hosting for clients managing the business and technology complexities
of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies
to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients
eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers'
trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management
consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading
companies and governments in 55 countries. EDS reported revenues
of $19.2 billion in 2000. The company's stock is traded on the New
York Stock Exchange (NYSE: EDS) and the London
Stock Exchange. EDS can be found online at www.eds.com.
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