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Corporate Profile for LoneSource, dated Nov. 8, 2002.


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Published Date:   Nov. 8, 2002

Company Name:     LoneSource

Address:          115 Mackenan Drive
                  Cary, NC 27511

Main Telephone
 Number:          919/466-8615

Internet Home
 Page Address
  (URL)           www.LoneSource.com

Chief Executive
 Officer:         Bradley King

Chief Financial
 Officer:         Todd Murphy

Investor Relations
 Contact:         Mark Hartley
 Business number: 919/466-8615, ext. 227
 E-mail address:  mark.hartley@lonesource.com

Public Relations
 Contact:         Mark Hartley
 Business number: 919/466-8615, ext. 227
 E-mail address:  mark.hartley@lonesource.com

Industry:         e-Procurement Solutions

Trading Symbol/
 Exchange:        n/a

Market Makers: e-Procurement, Vendor Consolidation, ERP



Company description: LoneSource is the nations fastest growing provider of procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases.  solutions. We enable companies to focus on core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
  1. It provides customer benefits
  2. It is hard for competitors to imitate
  3. It can be leveraged widely to many products and markets.
 and increased efficiency by delivering the systems and services required to:
-- Simplify their purchasing process through the consolidation of suppliers,

-- Realize and manage corporate compliance, and

-- Leverage the largest possible economies of scale to lower costs and increase purchasing power


The LoneSource Procurement Platform is the first open site software solution that allows corporations to deliver single source purchasing power Purchasing Power

1. The value of a currency expressed in terms of the amount of goods or services that one unit of money can buy. Purchasing power is important because, all else being equal, inflation decreases the amount of goods or services you'd be able to purchase.

2.
 to their employees. The platform features private and restrictive 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.  access, approval routing, budget management and summary reporting capabilities. The LoneSource unique distribution model allows companies to better leverage their spending with a single source provider versus managing relationships with redundant Repetitive. See redundancy.  suppliers.

LoneSource is truly the only source you need.
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