Blyth Boosts Sourcing Processes with Procuri.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2004 Procuri Inc., a leading provider of strategic sourcing solutions, today announced that Blyth Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BTH), a leading designer and marketer of home decorative and fragranced products, signed a two year agreement to use Procuri's strategic sourcing solutions. Before choosing Procuri, Blyth conducted a full market evaluation. The company wanted a provider that could help meet its sourcing goals through a cost-effective and extensible software application. Procuri's Web-based solutions will enable Blyth to streamline and standardize its sourcing processes while institutionalizing best practices. "When determining which provider to use, we looked for a company that offered a powerful combination of software and services. We chose Procuri because of its rich functionality and its unique approach to transfer sourcing knowledge and expertise in order to leverage our team's core competencies while achieving self-sufficiency," said Glenn Evans, vice president of Global Sourcing for Blyth. Blyth, Inc., designs, manufactures, and distributes a line of candles and home fragrance products, as well as a range of home decor and decorative seasonal products. Blyth will be generating savings with Procuri's solutions in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, and Asia within its worldwide PartyLite direct selling Direct selling is the marketing of products or services to consumers through sales tactics including presentations, demonstrations, and phone calls. It is sometimes also considered to be a sale that does not utilize a "middle man" such as a retail outlets, distributors or brokers. business, the company's consumer wholesale businesses and its Sterno business unit. Since December 2003, the company has globally trained purchasing professionals and has sourced $68 million of spend worldwide through a variety of Procuri's functionality including requests for information, reverse auctions and sealed bids. The company recently realized double-digit savings for events completed in its North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. and European divisions. "Procuri's solutions offer intuitive functionality that allows companies to start saving immediately. Our goal with any customer, including Blyth, is to help them achieve self-sufficiency with our easy-to-learn and easy-to-use solutions by leveraging and elevating the expertise of their staff," said Mark F. Morel morel Any of various species of edible mushrooms in the genera Morchella and Verpa. Morels have a convoluted or pitted head, or cap, vary in shape, and occur in diverse habitats. The edible M. , Sr., president and chief executive officer for Procuri. About Procuri Inc. Procuri's strategic sourcing solutions empower its more than 100 customers to create a competitive advantage. By accelerating business velocity, Procuri's solutions help companies achieve rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). , reduce cycle times and improve buyer efficiencies. Procuri's ability to leverage industry best practices and enable its customers to better predict and control their success in the sourcing process has led to the company's unequaled 100 percent customer retention rate. Customers include Procter & Gamble, Eastman Kodak, ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Industries, KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) Royal Dutch Airlines, Rio Tinto Rio Tinto may refer to:
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