Commerce One Announces General Availability of Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog 3.1.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 1998-- New Catalog Delivers Full Integration with SAP R/3 and Access To SAP Business-to-Business Procurement Solution Commerce One, Inc., the leading provider of business-to-business electronic procurement and content management solutions, today announced the general availability of the Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog (MSC (1) (MSC.Software Corporation, Santa Ana, CA, www.mscsoftware.com) Founded in 1963 by Richard H. MacNeal and Robert G. Schwendler, MSC is the world's largest provider of mechanical computer aided engineering (MCAE) strategies, simulation software and services. ) version 3.1. This web-based catalog delivers full integration with SAP R/3, via the R/3 Materials Management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, Module, providing SAP procurement organizations with an online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. to accelerate purchasing automation, and will also be accessible from SAP's recently announced Business-to-Business Procurement Solution (SAP BBP BBP Bruto Binnenlands Product (Dutch) BBP Bauch-Beine-Po (workout) BBP Büyük Birlik Partisi (Turkish: Grand Unity Party) BBP Blood Borne Pathogen BBP Baseband Processor ). In addition, SAP enterprise customers can participate in the Commerce One Electronic Commerce Network (ECN (Electronic Communications Network) A computerized, private financial trading system. Terra Nova Trading (www.terranovatrading.com) and Instinet (www.instinet.com) are examples. ) which links buying and selling organizations in real-time trading communities. Through the Multi-Supplier Catalog and ECN, SAP customers will be able to access the largest commercially-available pre-packaged catalog -- comprised of more than 5 million items from over 5,000 suppliers, distributors and manufacturers -- to achieve full automation with their suppliers. The release of the Commerce One MSC 3.1 is a result of the strategic relationship established with SAP last year. As part of this relationship, SAP made an equity investment in Commerce One and entered into a joint development agreement to ensure full integration between SAP R/3 and Commerce One's products. "Commerce One's commitment to elevating the automation between buyers and their suppliers in the business-to-business market has really been the force behind our shared business efforts, and today's integrated catalog content solution for the R/3 environment is yet another extension of that vision," said Richard Pitts, director of SAP's complimentary software program. "With the Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog, SAP users have an impressive tool for simplifying the purchase of indirect goods and maximizing their existing investments." The robust features of the Commerce One MSC 3.1, include sophisticated search capabilities and the ability to check inventory availability and price. These features enable more effective buying practices by automating comparison shopping, system enforced individual buying authority and strategic supplier purchasing aggregation. Commerce One MSC 3.1 provides R/3 customers with automated access to rich, extensive multimedia supplier catalog content to improve product purchasing decisions. Commerce One ECN then enables those R/3 environments -- at no additional cost -- to connect directly with their key suppliers in ECN's highly-secure and reliable business transaction environment from within the application. In addition to being a stand-alone catalog solution for R/3 environments, the Commerce One MSC 3.1 is also available as a part of the Commerce One BuySite procurement solution for those enterprise organizations that require a comprehensive desktop requisitioning and catalog solution. Commerce One will integrate this catalog solution with various 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, providing the complex integration and system support required to link enterprise procurement organizations to catalog content. "The Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog integrates with SAP enterprise environments to fully tap the potential of procurement automation," commented Chuck Donchess, vice president of marketing and business development at Commerce One. "By linking R/3 buyers directly to their suppliers via Commerce One ECN, customers will achieve a higher level of automation and gain improved order processing and cycle times, increased operational efficiencies, and support for supplier specific contractual business terms." "Procurement organizations want to maximize their existing application investment, and we consider the automation of supplier interaction to be an unprecedented means to improving processes and expediting the commerce process," said Carl Falk, vice president of electronic procurement strategies at Commerce One. "Organizations built around SAP can enhance the entire order-to-fulfillment purchasing cycle by integrating their front-end requisition system with the Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog and Commerce One ECN. This combination will today enable them to automate the procurement of more than 90 percent of their indirect goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. , and provide a compelling 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). payback within the first year." The Commerce One Multi-Supplier Catalog 3.1 is available immediately and pricing starts at $350,000 for an enterprise license plus a $100 per user license fee. About Commerce One ECN Commerce One ECN is a highly secure e-commerce extranet where suppliers of all sizes participate in their customer's Commerce One Electronic Procurement Solutions. Suppliers participate by providing catalog data to ECN through a dedicated web-site. Using remote administration and content management tools, suppliers make real-time updates to product offerings and pricing agreements to enable instantaneous customer access. Initially, suppliers are invited to participate in a customer-specific catalog implementation. Once "Powered by Commerce One", the supplier's catalog content is immediately available to other customers in similar, highly secure Commerce One Electronic Procurement Extranets. ECN operates on MCI's Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. , located in Pentagon City, Virginia Pentagon City is an unincorporated neighborhood (also called an "urban village") located in the southeast portion of Arlington County, Virginia, near The Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery. Due to its proximity to Washington, D.C. . About Commerce One Commerce One, Inc. is the global leader in web-based electronic procurement solutions that deliver significant cost savings and operational efficiencies to enterprise organizations by linking buying and selling organizations in real-time trading communities. Based in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , Commerce One is privately held, backed by an investment team that includes SAP America, Canaan Partners, Morgan Stanley Ventures, Foundation Capital, WI Harper Group and European Technology Fund. Commerce One has strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. 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Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Sybase, is Commerce One's president and CEO and is supported by an industry-leading management team of senior executives from top technology companies. Additional information on Commerce One is available by calling 800/308-3838 or via the Internet at http://www.commerceone.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: Commerce One is a registered trademark and Commerce One Multi Supplier Catalog and Commerce One Electronic Commerce Network are trademarks of Commerce One, Inc. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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