EMPTORIS, HEINZ, DOW CORNING AND VODAFONE EXECUTIVES HONORED FOR GLOBAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP

Emptoris Software Empowers Leading Businesses to Realize Value and Accelerate Growth

Burlington, Mass. – March 10, 2006 – Emptoris, the leading provider of Enterprise Supply Management solutions for Global 1000 companies, announced today that its data management expert and three global clients have been recognized as “Pros to Know” by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine.

This annual program honors professionals from supply and demand chain software providers and their customers, who possess extensive industry knowledge and innovative forward-thinking. Three Emptoris customers, Heinz, Dow Corning and Vodafone, were named as “Practitioner Pros to Know,” while Emptoris’ Kirit Pandit was named as a “Provider Pro to Know.”

“Every Emptoris employee is focused on delivering innovation. Companies including Heinz, Dow Corning and Vodafone are leveraging our software to deliver substantial cost savings and drive business growth,” said Avner Schneur, founder and CEO, Emptoris. “We are delighted to see our executives and customers receive recognition for their commitment to innovate, and ability to generate value through supply management.”

Heinz Recipient Saves $75M
Rob Hemsley, Director of Heinz European Purchasing, delivered on a challenge to drive transformation and achieved over $75M of savings, better quality products and company-wide recognition of the value of procurement. Hemsley was able to accomplish this by developing and implementing new technologies to deliver procurement efficiencies and savings.

Dow Corning Standardizes Procurement Data Globally
Mike Lanham, Program Leader of Dow Corning Procurement, initiated a project to help supply managers understand their area of spend responsibility, and make the company’s global data consistent for analysis and RFP preparation. Lanham and his team worked with Emptoris to develop a commodity classification structure covering 45,000 items, more than 20,000 vendors and 98 percent of all global spend. Using this data, Lanham raised Procurement spend coverage to over 85 percent of all spend globally.

Vodafone Dials Up Savings Through Data Visibility
Gary Allen, Global Supply Chain Manager for Vodafone, worked with Emptoris to develop the Vodafone Global eSourcing Platform to establish visibility into the company’s decentralized spending. To date, the sourcing platform has been leveraged by more than 600 internal Vodafone users/buyers, 1,350 supplier organizations. Vodafone realized exponential savings, and increased visibility of it’s spend and enhanced contract compliance.

Emptoris Cures Toxic Data
Kirit Pandit, vice president of content services at Emptoris, was honored for his development of a spend data management solution to cure “toxic content.” Kirit is responsible for designing solutions that elicit value from procurement processes and data to enable better compliance, process, and spend analysis.

“The 2006 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Practitioner Pros to Know all have demonstrated a high degree of leadership both within their companies and in the broader supply chain field,” said Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. “They are all truly 'Pros to Know.’”

Each honoree was nominated by his or her peers and selected by the editorial team and advisory board of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. The full listing of the 2006 Pros to Know is available on the Supply & Demand Chain Executive Web site at http://www.sdcexec.com/article.asp?article_id=8380.

About Emptoris
Emptoris brings innovation to supply management, empowering enterprises to realize the best value from their supply base and accelerate profitable growth. Emptoris’ solutions are used by Global 5000 companies in every industry. Customers include American Express, Bank of America, Boeing, Dow Corning, GlaxoSmithKline, Motorola, Owens Corning, Samsung America, and Toro.

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive (www.sdcexec.com) is a bi-monthly business magazine aimed at uniting the intelligence, news and tools necessary to steer the supply and demand chain management professional and business executive through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain management. With hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies, Supply & Demand Chain Executive will uncover each aspect of the new supply and demand chain to keep readers on the leading edge, the frontline and the profit zone.

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