Eutilia and Perfect Commerce Announce Cross Atlantic Partnership to Expand Faster
Eutilia and Perfect Commerce announce a strategic partnership to accelerate the distribution of online solutions for buyers and sellers, and expand their combined supplier network (over 15 000 suppliers in the US & Europe)
(PRWEB) February 16, 2005 -- Perfect Commerce Inc., a leading provider of
on-demand Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions and the Open Supplier
NetworkSM (The OSNSM), and Eutilia N.V., the leading online marketplace in
Europe for utilities (electricity, gas, water, telecom and railway) and
partners/suppliers to meet and make business, announced a strategic partnership
agreement that aims to accelerate the development of both companies on the
European market.
Eutilia will deliver supplier on-boarding, customer
support, and catalog management services for Perfect Commerce's supply-side
clients in Germany, Benelux, the UK and Spain, as Perfect Commerce will enable
Eutilia to offer instantly complementary e-Procurement solutions to European
utility companies and contractors. This agreement will rapidly increase
Eutilia's online-services portfolio for the utility sector and coverage of
Perfect Commerce's supplier hub "The OSNSM" throughout Europe, enhancing
dramatically both value propositions on the European market.
Perfect
Commerce, leading provider of on-demand SRM solutions in the US and of a
worldwide supplier network, will leverage Eutilia's skills in order to deliver
full service to European customers seamlessly and quickly. Eutilia will bring to
Perfect Commerce all the experience of 7,500 on-boarded and supported buyers and
suppliers. "The combined history of the two companies in e-purchasing
activities, the broad-offering and wide customer base of Perfect Commerce and
the pan-European experience of Eutilia will create a compelling value
proposition for US-based Perfect Commerce customers needing European deployment
as well as for new European customers needing a quick roll-out of their
procurement projects in Europe," stated Martial Gerardin, Managing Director of
Perfect Commerce in Europe.
Eutilia, a leading European marketplace,
which increases buyer and supplier relationship efficiencies, will add Perfect
Commerce first-class and market-competitive on-demand SRM solutions to its
current offering. Eutilia will provide its community of users (1000 buyers and
6500 suppliers) access to a unique suite of online and on-demand services.
Eutilia, which excels in bringing buyers and suppliers together in order to
meet, tender and negotiate online, will start expanding its services by
supporting and delivering Perfect Commerce e-Procurement services. "With more
than 200 Fortune-1000 clients, a leading-edge technology and an aggressive
business model, Perfect Commerce has been selected as our partner of choice to
expand Eutilia's marketplace footprint throughout the European utility sector.
Eutilia and Perfect Commerce have objectives and ambitions that can be pursued
jointly and have the potential to go even further. The recent merger between
Perfect Commerce and Pantellos (an online marketplace for utilities in North
America), confirms it," says Jean-Philippe Massin, CEO of Eutilia.
About
Eutilia N.V. (www.eutilia.com)
Eutilia is the leading electronic
marketplace for the European utility industry and its international supply-base.
More than 1000 buyers from 120 buying-organizations (such as EDF, Electrabel,
EnBW, Iberdrola, Calorgas, Nuon, Vattenfall etc...) and 6500 sell-side companies
are using Eutilia services and technology to meet online, increase their buying
or selling process efficiencies and to unlock cost savings potentials.
For professional buyers, Eutilia provides eSourcing solutions, helping
to locate and select new suppliers, to create and publish tenders, to analyse
suppliers' answers, or to negotiate through an auction. 100's buying events are
executed per year generating a €1,0 Billion deal flow.
For sellers,
Eutilia is a unique sales and marketing channel increasing their visibility and
market share in the European utility sector. Suppliers are offered services
enabling them to promote their skills and experience, to get in contact with a
buying organization, to demonstrate seriousness and compliance with the sector's
basic selection criteria, or to receive tender alerts.
Eutilia operates
and covers the European market from the main office in Leiden in The Netherlands
and with representatives in Germany and France. Eutilia can be reached at www.eutilia.com.
About Perfect Commerce, Inc. (www.perfect.com)
Perfect Commerce delivers On-Demand
Supplier Relationship Management solutions and also provides connectivity to
trading partners via The Open Supplier NetworkSM (The OSNSM). The company is a
leading business-to-business e-commerce solutions provider with more than 200
Fortune 1000 clients, over 170,000 users and 8,500 suppliers.
Perfect
Commerce provides a suite of solutions for the complete sourcing-to-settlement
process. The company enables businesses to simplify the complex challenges of
spend management, sourcing, contract management, procurement, electronic invoice
presentment and payment. Perfect Commerce helps its clients succeed by
delivering accelerated return on investment, streamlining the procurement
process and enhancing buyer-supplier relationships. Using Perfect Commerce,
clients have reduced costs on an average of 15 percent, compressed cycle times
by 75 percent, and significantly improved procurement processes and
analytics.
Headquartered in the metropolitan Kansas City area, with
offices in California, Nevada and France, Perfect Commerce can be reached at www.perfect.com.
For more information:
Perfect Commerce Media Contact
Martial
Gérardin, Managing Director Europe
+33 1 46 14 87 49
Eutilia Media
Contact
Jean-Philippe Massin, CEO
+31 71 53 53 100
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