News | March 19, 2008

Enporion's Jim Garcia Named To Supply & Demand Chain Executive's 2008 Pros To Know

Enporion, a leading provider of supply chain solutions and services, recently announced that its Chief Technology Officer, Jim Garcia, has been named to Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine's eighth annual listing of Provider Pros to Know in its February/March 2008 issue.

"This year's Provider Pros to Know are thought leaders in their respective supply chain segments," said Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "Their efforts in developing the tools and processes necessary for supply chain transformation, and in promoting new approaches to supply chain enablement, are helping raise Supply Chain's status within the enterprise and have earned them a place on this year's Provider Pros listing."

The Supply & Demand Chain Executive Provider Pros to Know is a listing of technology professionals who are reinventing the 21st century supply chain and have personally helped clients apply new technologies or processes to modernize their supply chains.

"Jim and his entire IT team have been instrumental in our company's success in providing customers with sophisticated supply chain solutions," said George Gordon, Chairman and CEO of Enporion. "His expertise in applying technology to business-to-business processes has propelled Enporion's solutions to the forefront of our industry. I'm thrilled to see Jim and our team recognized by Supply & Demand Chain Executive for their leadership."

Since joining Enporion as Chief Technology Officer in 2001, Mr. Garcia has been instrumental in the creation of the company's powerful suite of e-commerce solutions. He adopted a model-driven design and development environment that allowed his development teams to model business processes and produce application solutions automatically generated from those models. The result is faster delivery to customers and a record of system availability that regularly surpasses 99.99%.

In addition, Mr. Garcia's approach to supply chain solutions is to build in customer adaptability by including extensive configuration tools, focusing on interfaces to existing client ERP systems, and by creating rules engines that can accommodate the different process controls and workflow scenarios that every company has created.

About Enporion
Enporion is a supply chain management solutions and services company, providing strategic sourcing and e-procurement applications, and related professional services. Enporion is delivering results for customers in the gas and electric utilities, manufacturing and distribution industries.

Enporion's Supply Chain Manager, an integrated suite of e-commerce tools, delivers cost reduction through price and process savings, and includes capabilities in catalog management, supplier enablement and connection, spend reporting, e-sourcing including auctions and electronic RFx's, and contract management. These applications are delivered in a Software-as-a-Service environment, resulting in quick implementation and early realization of benefits. Visit Enporion online at www.enporion.com.

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply and demand chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer executives and supply management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain enablement to gain competitive advantage. On the Web at www.sdcexec.com

SOURCE: Enporion