Sun Valley Foods Chooses b2bScene to Host Collaboration for Supply Chain Management.Business Editors, High Tech Writers WATERLOO, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2001 Division of Cargill Adds b2bScene Hosted Services to Improve Product Development and Distribution b2bScene(TM), a Division of Open Text(TM) Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX OTEX Open Text Corporation (stock symbol) OTEX Orientation Technico-Economique de l’Exploitation )(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). .), today announced it has been chosen to host Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) collaboration services for Sun Valley Foods, a Division of Cargill, an international marketer, processor and distributor of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products. Sun Valley Foods, as part of Cargill's business partner network, will use services from b2bScene's Collaborative Business Platform(TM)(CBP CBP competitive protein binding. ) to promote collaboration between distribution partners and suppliers. The solution includes a secure hosted extranet combined with a personalized portal See personal portal. interface and industry content services. Centralized document management ensures mission critical information is immediately accessible by partners, and project workspaces allow on-the-fly team assembly to facilitate new product packaging, marketing and research initiatives. b2bScene's Collaborative Business Platform offers Sun Valley Foods an integrated and powerful set of collaborative services to manage people, information and processes in real-time over the Web. By sharing knowledge and experiences, distributors and suppliers can eliminate costly bottlenecks, speed time to market and increase overall transaction flow. The platform includes Open Text's Livelink(R) to provide a central Web-based information repository An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured , project team workspaces, workflow processes and reporting tools. All services are delivered on a secure, high-performance, reliable hosting infrastructure. "Critical success factors for the Sun Valley Foods Division of Cargill include supply chain efficiency and global reach," said Phil Preston, e-Business Development Director, Sun Valley Foods. "Internet collaboration is a key component of our supply chain solution, and we selected b2bScene's hosted platform to deliver immediate results." "As Sun Valley Foods strives to provide a range of high quality, competitively priced products and services, its need for vendors and suppliers to collaborate instantly, across various time zones is crucial," said Dan Latendre, Vice President of Business Development and Marketing, b2bScene. "b2bScene's Collaborative Business Platform complements SCM technologies to improve the quality of products and time to market." John Hughes
About b2bScene b2bScene, a Division of Open Text Corporation, provides a rich technology platform for hosted business collaboration. The Collaborative Business Platform(TM), powered by Open Text's Livelink(R), serves as the infrastructure for developing sophisticated online solutions to support business-to-business initiatives. b2bScene partners with specialized solution providers to design, build and support custom collaborative applications. Using b2bScene solutions, employees, partners and customers work together to reduce time to market, lower costs and build stronger relationships. About Sun Valley Foods Sun Valley Foods is an international chicken and food manufacturing company, with UK facilities in Hereford, Wolverhampton, Blaenavon and Worcester, and Orleans in France. Its current commitment to both acquisition and organic growth across Europe has been reflected in the purchase of companies in the UK, Belgium and Holland over the past 18 months, incorporating food processing Food processing is the set of methods and techniques used to transform raw ingredients into food for consumption by humans or animals. The food processing industry utilises these processes. , import and distribution operations into the business, and strengthening the Sun Valley supply chain. Sun Valley produce for European retail, food service and fast food companies, as well as for customers elsewhere in the world. About Livelink Livelink is a highly scalable e-business application. Its richly-featured enterprise services include virtual team collaboration, business process automation, enterprise group scheduling See calendaring. and information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. services, all tightly integrated into a solution that is easily customized and extended. Livelink is essential to the effective management and development of communities of interest that span organizations and industries. For everything from the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers true dynamic collaboration between individuals, organizations, and large trading communities. Livelink servers are fully Web-based and open-architected to ensure rapid deployment and easy access to its full functionality through a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . About Open Text Open Text provides collaborative commerce solutions for e-business that enable users to extend and build CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , SCM and 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. applications and allow them to work together within and across organizations. Open Text has pioneered the development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the Company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies. Its solution family called Livelink enables individuals, teams, organizations, and global trading communities to collaborate on e-business applications that facilitate e-commerce and other transactions among Global 2000 organizations. For more information, visit www.opentext.com. Copyright (C) 2001 by Open Text Corporation. Livelink, Open Text and b2bScene are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Text Corporation. This list is not exhaustive. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. This news release may contain forward-looking statements relating to the deployment of Livelink by customers, and future performance of Open Text Corporation and b2bScene. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, risks involved in the completion and integration of acquisitions, the possibility of technical, logistical or planning issues in connection with deployments, the continuous commitment of the Company's customers and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the final prospectus Final Prospectus A legal document stating the price of a newly issued security, the delivery date, and other facts that are important for investors. Notes: The final prospectus must be given to every investor who purchases a new issue of registered securities. for the Company's initial public offering of common stock in January 1996, Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. for the years ended June 30, 1998, June 30, 1999, and June 30, 2000, and Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarters ended September 30, 2000 and December 31, 2000. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made, and the Company does not undertake any obligations to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's beliefs or opinions change. Copyright (c) 2001, b2bScene, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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