Chemical Industry Leaders Turn to HAHT for B2B E-commerce Solutions; Occidental Chemical Corporation and Celanese Choose HAHT Commerce e-Scenarios.Business Editors RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 HAHT Commerce, a leading provider of business-to-business sell-side e-commerce solutions, today announced the addition of two leading chemical companies to HAHT's blue chip customer list. HAHT's new customers include Occidental oc·ci·den·tal or Oc·ci·den·tal adj. Of or relating to the countries of the Occident or their peoples or cultures; western. n. A native or inhabitant of an Occidental country; a westerner. Noun 1. Chemical Corporation (OxyChem), a leading chemical manufacturer with interests in basic chemicals, vinyls, petrochemicals and performance products; and Celanese, a global chemicals company with leading positions in acetyls, chemical intermediates, acetate acetate (ăs`ĭtāt'), one of the most important forms of artificial cellulose-based fibers; the ester of acetic acid. The first patents for the production of fibers from cellulose acetate appeared at the beginning of the 20th cent. products, technical polymers and performance products. HAHT is the first vendor to offer a full-suite of business-to-business sell-side applications that support the entire e-commerce lifecycle, from attraction and sales through fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. and service. The HAHT Commerce e-Scenario suite is comprised of four applications: HAHT Market, HAHT Shop, HAHT Track and HAHT Service. -- HAHT Market supports the attraction, loyalty and retention of customers by offering online personalization and lead management, dealer locator capabilities, email campaigns, and traffic and click stream analysis. -- HAHT Shop provides online catalogs, product configuration, order entry, multiple shopping baskets, procurement and credit card processing to customers. -- HAHT Track provides order status, product availability and shipment tracking. -- HAHT Service provides customers with post-sales service, including order modifications, credit checks and price quotes. "The chemical industry has made great advancements and understands the need and value of B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. in the past few months. These leading chemical companies understand that to succeed you must have an efficient business-to-business solution," said Rowland Archer, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president of HAHT Commerce. "HAHT wants to assist the chemical industry to utilize the information these companies already have in their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems and use it as efficiently as possible." OxyChem is a leading chemical manufacturer and will be using HAHT Track and HAHT Shop e-Scenarios to assist with customer management. Currently a majority of OxyChem's business is conducted via the telephone. OxyChem's goal is to expand their customer access channels to provide 24-hour customer service via the Web for customers to check account status, and place and track orders, that will enhance the transaction efficiency for both the customer and OxyChem. "We believe HAHT Commerce e-Scenarios can assist us in achieving our vision of being one of the easiest companies to do business with in the chemical industry," said Charles Clark Charles Clark was the name of:
Celanese, a leading global chemical company with sales of more than $4 billion will be using HAHT Track and HAHT Shop e-Scenarios primarily to achieve cost reductions within the customer service group. "With HAHT Commerce e-Scenarios, we will be able to improve our customer service up a level and address the evolving needs of our customers quickly," said Bill Schmitt, director of business enablement at Celanese. "Customers will have access to real-time corporate data anytime they need it, not just during business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a ." About HAHT Commerce HAHT Commerce, Inc. is a leading global provider of business-to-business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) sell-side e-commerce solutions. The HAHT Commerce e-Scenario(TM) application suite is the first back-office-integrated solution to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. marketing, selling, fulfillment and service functions across the entire business customer lifecycle. This packaged Internet software enables companies to increase revenue, improve service levels, and reduce sales channel management costs. HAHT Sellside Links and the HAHT Sellside Exchange enable suppliers to sell goods in multiple e-marketplaces and trading exchanges via a single connection. These solutions offer rapid implementation, pre-packaged integration with back-end systems, easy customization and large-scale deployment. HAHT maintains strategic partnerships with leading software vendors such as SAP, Microsoft and Novell, e-marketplaces such as Commerce One and Ariba, and major systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. . More information on HAHT, its customers, partners and products can be found at www.haht.com. Note to Editors: HAHT, the HAHT Commerce logo, HAHTsite, Commerce e-Scenario, Sellside Links, Sellside Exchange and HAHT Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. are trademarks or US/EU registered trademarks of HAHT Commerce, Inc. All other corporate, product, and trade names are property of their respective companies. |
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