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Appendix I

Table 1
Appendix I

Software solution providers for supply chain optimization in the automotive parts industry [xix]

Aspect Development, Inc. is the leading global provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for inbound supply and collaboration, for the enterprise and its trading partners.

Aspen Technology, Inc. is the leading supplier of integrated software and solutions that enable process manufacturers to automate and optimize their plants and extended supply chains while enabling e-business.

B2Emarkets
(Business to Electronic Markets)
is an information-age company that offers Internet-based strategic electronic sourcing solutions for Global 2000 companies.

Categoric Software Corporation provides proactive business event notification systems for supply chain collaboration by addressing the challenge of identifying key business events as they occur and notifying specific individuals of those events.

ChemConnect is one of the Internet's leading global electronic marketplaces for chemicals and plastics. Manufacturers, buyers, and intermediaries, around the world, use ChemConnect's World Chemical Exchange, an open, neutral market, to find trading partners, negotiate pricing and complete transactions online.

Concentus Technology Corporation delivers process-driven B2B solutions that speed to market any e-business strategy.

Datamax designs and manufactures one of the bar code industry's broadest lines of thermal printers, offering printers in each of the low, mid and high performance and specialty segments of the thermal bar code printer market.

Datasweep provides Web-centric solutions for the full range of production environments from build-to-stock to build-to-order, from vertically integrated to completely outsourced.

Descartes is the global leader in e-fulfillment software and hosted application services, providing solutions that enable companies to reinvent logistics flows, creating high-speed, high-performance fulfillment networks.

i2, the world's leading Marketplace Service Provider, deploys B2B and B2C electronic marketplaces.

Industri-Matematik International provides advanced supply chain management solutions that enable companies to manage the complex logistics and service challenges that exist in pull-driven business environments.

Intrepa is a leading provider of supply chain applications focused on delivering warehouse, transportation, and labor management applications for traditional and e-business environments.

Iron Mountain Incorporated is global leader in records and information management services.

Keystone Internet Services is the recognized leader in providing full-service quality solutions to the e-commerce world, providing innovative logistics solutions, integrated marketing, merchandising, inventory control, and e-care/customer services.

LawsonSoftware is a leading provider of Self-Evident Applications™ (SEA) for e-business and offers role-based Web solutions for financials, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and performance management.

Logility - Headquartered in Atlanta, Logility Inc. provides state-of-the-art internet-designed business-to-business collaborative commerce solutions that optimize operations throughout the value chain. Logility's mission is to enable the optimization of our customers value chain by providing solutions that collaboratively integrate their business processes with their trading partners.

Manugistics Group, Inc. is the leading provider of e-business solutions that enable intelligent decisions across trading networks.

Moai is the leading provider of negotiated e-commerce solutions addressing the needs of global 2000 and net market maker customers.

Netfish provides an XML-based B2B solution to integrate business processes across corporate boundaries.

New Era of Networks, Inc. (NEON) develops and markets e-business integration software that integrate legacy, ERP, client/server and Internet applications, in real-time, for the extended business enterprise. NEON offers a complete range of e-business and enterprise application integration products and services to meet the needs of clients in financial services, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, and other industries.

NONSTOP Solutions is the first business-to-business electronic-replenishment company. Our Internet-based products and services optimize replenishment transactions for core finished goods for the pharmaceutical, autoparts, grocery, and retail industries.

NTE (National
Transportation Exchange)
operates a dynamic, rule-based optimization exchange used by shippers, third party logistics intermediaries and freight carriers.

Optum is a leading provider of configurable end-to-end fulfillment solutions for traditional and e-commerce companies that combine robust products with consulting services to bring clients the comprehensive fulfillment solution they need.

PeopleSoft supply chain management leverages internet technologies to break down traditional barriers between manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and the consumer.

Preview Systems develops and markets an e-commerce infrastructure solution that enables networks to electronically distribute and license digital goods.

ProLogis is the largest global owner and operator of integrated distribution facilities and services with over 1.7 million square feet of facilities owned and operating throughout North America and Europe.

Progistix - www.progistix.com       

Progistix is one of Canada's leading third-party logistics services companies. A subsidiary of Bell Canada, Progistix-Solutions Inc. specializes in supplying comprehensive logistics services to companies in the technology and telecommunications sectors. They provide clients with fast, cost-effective service in the areas of order processing and fulfillment, inventory management, warehousing, transportation, reverse logistics, call centre services, and e-commerce.

PurchaseSoft B2B e-commerce solutions help major corporations reap fast ROI and achieve operational efficiencies.

Robocom's RIMS warehouse management system is an essential part of today's warehouse - improving the flow of critical information and optimizing the use of all warehouse assets.

Sterling Commerce is a worldwide leader in providing e-business integration solutions for the Global 5000 and their commerce communities, including solutions to address E-Business Process Integration, E-Community Management, E-Business Communications Infrastructure, and E-Sourcing.

TECSYS is the sole provider of fully integrated business-to-business e-commerce-based order fulfillment solutions for high-volume distribution enterprises.

The leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative value chain solutions via the Internet, Logility is a driving force in transforming the way companies conduct business.

TIBCO Software Inc. is a leading provider of real-time infrastructure software for the Internet and enterprise that enables business to dynamically link internal operations, business partners, and customer channels.

Understand how you can gain a complete view of your supply-chain and share information with your suppliers with Cognos Enterprise Business Intelligence.

Uniteq is a leading provider of supply chain execution software and e-process applications, focusing on the consumer products industry with particular emphasis on wholesale and retail food and drug/pharmaceutical segments.

Viewlocity products and services enable customers to obtain a higher return on assets (ROA) through increased visibility and synchronization across extended supply chain operations.

Walker's e-business solutions for the enterprise are utilized by Fortune 1000 organizations in industries including banking and financial services, retail, transportation, and utilities.

webPLAN is the only complete, end-to-end, high-velocity e-business platform for manufacturers. Its web applications transform your supply chain into a strategic weapon. webPLAN creates a secure Internet community where manufacturers, suppliers and customers can conduct business in real-time.

 

This report was completed in October 2000 for the class B2B Electronic Commerce given by Prof. Carmel  in the program of Management Of Global Information Technology at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington D.C.