NOVO to Help Create Foodservice E-Procurement Service.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2000 Restaurantpro.com Selects Company as E-Business Site Developer NOVO(tm), Relationship Architects for e-Business(tm), today announced that it was selected earlier this year by Restaurantpro.com(tm) to design the user interface for the company's Web-hosted back office and e-procurement services which will serve the $376 billion foodservice industry. NOVO will also provide on-going creative and engineering services to complement the Commerce One based functionality of the site at launch. NOVO is partnering with Restaurantpro.com to engineer the service's functionality, define the online buyer experience and develop the site's final look and feel through visual and information design. "Almost $14.3 billion is lost each year due to inefficiencies in the foodservice industry's supply chain, be it through confusing voice mail orders or other breakdowns in communication," commented Kelly Rodriques, Chairman and 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. of NOVO. "The sector is ripe for transformation. For Restaurantpro.com, we are again applying our expertise at building e-Businesses to help create integrated online tools and interfaces that will improve efficiencies and form sustainable relationships among suppliers and their customers." "Our challenge is to deliver mission-critical business solutions and services that are customized to meet the needs of each user in the foodservice industry," said Christopher R. Hemmeter, president and CEO, Restaurantpro.com. "We selected NOVO as our partner because they bring together core services The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. that are essential to delivering our back office and e-procurement solutions online in a streamlined, easy-to-use environment." NOVO understands that for Restaurantpro.com to be successful in the digital economy, it must engineer an online business experience that addresses both the technical demands and scaling issues inherent in online business while also maintaining primary focus on the value of sustainable customer relationships. Restaurantpro.com connects restaurants and suppliers in a secure online marketplace, allowing them to work together more efficiently and enhance existing relationships. The company will provide a complete solution that is free to targeted, full-service independent restaurants, including a PC, high-speed Digital Subscriber Line See DSL. (communications, protocol) Digital Subscriber Line - (DSL, or Digital Subscriber Loop, xDSL - see below) A family of digital telecommunications protocols designed to allow high speed data communication over the existing copper telephone lines between end-users and (DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary ) Internet access See how to access the Internet. , on-site user training, 24/7 customer support and an e-procurement service that brings efficiencies, control and enhanced supplier communication to the ordering process. About Restaurantpro.com Restaurantpro.com is a privately held service company leveraging the Internet to help restaurants and suppliers do business together online more efficiently and effectively. The company will build and manage the dominant 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 marketplace for the $376 billion foodservice industry. The Restaurantpro.com board of directors includes Jed Smith, founder of Drugstore.com, John V. Balen, from Canaan Partners, Peter Roshko from Boulder Ventures and Christopher R. Hemmeter. The Restaurantpro.com Web site is located at www.restaurantpro.com. About NOVO NOVO architects and evolves e-Businesses. By delivering an integrated set of services, which include e-Business strategy and planning, application development and technology integration, Web design and e-Marketing services, NOVO strengthens relationships between companies and their customers. Founded in 1994, the company is one of the largest privately held Internet professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firms in the U.S., with offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Detroit. NOVO's clients include 3Com, Avery Dennison Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) produces pressure-sensitive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), office products, and various paper products. R. Stanton Avery founded Avery in 1935. Avery Dennison Corporation was created in 1990 by merger of Avery and Dennison. , Continental Airlines, E*Trade, General Motors, gloss.com, Levi Strauss & Co., Nabisco, Procter & Gamble, Restaurantpro.com, Toyota, and the new on-line travel agency founded by United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines. More information on NOVO can be found at http://www.novocorp.com. NOVO and Relationship Architects for e-Business are trademarks of NOVO. |
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