SBC Honors Suppliers for Outstanding Performance.SAN ANTONIO San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. -- SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc.(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SBC) today announced its annual list of suppliers recognized for outstanding performance and service to the company during the past year. The SBC Supplier Recognition Program honors the company's suppliers for their work in six categories: creative cost management solutions, customer service, product and service performance, supplier diversity Supplier Diversity is a business program that encourages the use of previously underutilized minority owned vendors as suppliers. It is not directly correlated with supply chain diversification, although utilizing more vendors may enhance supply chain diversification. , technical innovations, and teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. . "Our supply chain partners play a vital role in helping SBC deliver the services, value and innovation that are necessary for our company to be successful in today's highly competitive, fast-changing marketplace," said Maureen Merkle, president of SBC Procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. . "This year we are pleased to recognize 47 different companies that especially stand out in providing the SBC companies with a better product, a better service, a better cost structure or a better approach that contributed to our success during the past year." The SBC companies utilize more than 5,000 companies as major suppliers for materials and services. Altogether, the SBC companies spent approximately $10.5 billion with its supplier base in 2004. SBC 2005 Supplier Recognition Awards Category: Creative Cost Management Solutions --------------------------------------------- ADTRAN, Inc. Bowe Bell + Howell EMC Corporation Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc. HF WILSON Engineering Co. IONA Technologies PLC Lucent Technologies, Inc. ModusLink Corporation Uniprise, a United Health Group Company Category: Customer Service --------------------------- DATAcap, Inc./CUBIX Software, Inc General Cable Corporation IBM Global Financing Initial Security Jackson & Blanc KGP Telecommunications Modis, Inc. NextGen Information Services Inc. Nortel Networks, Inc. Reliant Energy Rose International, Inc. Sunbelt Telecommunications, LP telcobuy.com The Plus Group, Inc. TriNet Communications, Inc. Category: Product & Service Performance ---------------------------------------- Applied Innovation Inc. Charles Industries, Ltd. Communication Power System Inc. Corning Cable Systems LLC Data Connection Limited Hitachi Data Systems Corporation Jus-Com, Inc. KMM Telecommunications Pinnacle Telecommunications Inc. Quality Network Services, Inc. Telamon Corporation Category: Supplier Diversity Excellence ---------------------------------------- Alcatel Ciena Corporation Cisco Systems Category: Teamwork ------------------- Alcatel CB Richard Ellis Ciena Corporation Equis Corporation LogicaCMG Wireless Networks, Inc. OFS BrightWave, LLC SM&P Utility Resources USA Datafax, Inc. Westell, Inc. Category: Technical Innovations -------------------------------- ACTERNA, LLC The Beck Group Nortel Networks, Inc. SBC Communications Inc. is a Fortune 50 company whose subsidiaries, operating under the SBC brand, provide a full range of voice, data, networking, e-business, directory publishing and advertising, and related services to businesses, consumers and other telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. providers. SBC holds a 60 percent ownership interest in Cingular Wireless, which serves more than 50 million wireless customers. SBC companies provide high-speed 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. lines to more American consumers than any other provider and are among the nation's leading providers of Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the services. SBC companies also now offer satellite TV service. Additional information about SBC and SBC products and services is available at www.sbc.com. |
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