World Wide Technology Deploys ClearOrbit Supplier Collaboration Solution
ClearOrbit, the leading provider of real-time supply chain execution software solutions, today announced that St. Louis, MO based World Wide Technology (WWT) has implemented ClearOrbit's Purchase Order Collaborator (POC) with the first wave of 50 equipment suppliers. World Wide Technology specializes in helping customers rapidly build and deploy technology infrastructure on-time and cost effectively for hundreds of high technology, telecommunications and automotive clients.
POC is part of the ClearOrbit Xtended Process Control (X.PC) Suite that provides trading partner process automation by extending the functionality of ERP solutions such as the Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP R/3. X.PC dramatically reduces the errors and inefficiencies associated with traditional methods of procurement and replenishment through internet-based collaboration among original equipment manufacturers, suppliers, logistics providers and contract manufacturers. These rules-based solutions effectively extend a customer's ERP system to control the activities of trading partners during order fulfillment and shipping processes.
"Our ability to effectively manage the procurement and logistics function on behalf of our clients has been a driver of our rapid growth," said Mark Franke, Vice President of IT at World Wide Technology. "Our electronic procurement and logistics (e-PL) capabilities combine procurement services and logistics functions with state-of-the-art information technology. ClearOrbit has been a strategic partner in providing the advanced IT capabilities that differentiate us in the industry, and their solutions have become a critical part of our service offering."
The rollout of the ClearOrbit POC application supports an outsourcing procurement contract with a major automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM). WWT will automate a substantial portion of purchases between the OEM and its network of 900 suppliers, who will log on to POC to view and accept purchase orders, to submit invoices for items shipped and to track payments.
Since POC is pre-integrated to WWT's Oracle ERP system, all information is in real-time and all of the Oracle setups, configurations and business rules carry over to the ClearOrbit software. "ClearOrbit's tight integration to the Oracle ERP was an important factor in our ability to deploy the solution so quickly and cost-effectively," added Franke.
"World Wide Technology is a leader in supply chain collaboration excellence and vision," said Tom Dziersk, President and CEO of ClearOrbit. "We are proud that our solutions are such an important part of the innovative supply chain and logistic service that WWT offerings to its Fortune 500 customer base. World Wide Technology is a perfect example of how an advanced company can exploit our collaboration tools within its Oracle infrastructure. With the implementation of ClearOrbit's POC, WWT has also enabled a large group of suppliers to reap substantial benefits without absorbing the associated costs or burden of building new IT infrastructure themselves and installing new software."
About World Wide Technology
Founded in 1990 with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, World Wide
Technology Holding Co., Inc. (WWT Holding), is a leading value added
reseller (VAR) in the information technology industry. WWT Holding, with its
industry specific operating companies, World Wide Technology and
Telcobuy.com, specializes in helping customers rapidly build and deploy
technology infrastructure on-time and cost effectively. Building upon its
success as a leading VAR, WWT's electronic procurement and logistics (e-PL)
capabilities combine procurement services and logistics functions with
state-of-the-art information systems technology, allowing partners to focus
on core competencies, while maximizing supply chain efficiencies. Both
customers and partners benefit from having WWT, a proven distribution and
logistics company, manage their inventory while at the same time gaining
anytime, anywhere access to WWT's web-based procurement, inventory
management and deployment management applications. WWT is headquartered in
St. Louis, Missouri, with remote sales and distribution facilities located
in Livermore and Los Angeles, CA; Detroit, MI; Reno, NV; Nashville, TN;
Austin, San Antonio and Plano, TX; McLean, VA and Seattle, WA. For more
information please visit www.wwt.com.
About ClearOrbit
Since 1994, ClearOrbit has assisted more than 275 clients in automating and
controlling their supply chain execution processes. ClearOrbit extends
enterprise systems value with proven Supply Chain Execution (SCE) and
Collaborative Supply Management (CSM) software solutions that allow
customers to fully leverage their investment in enterprise applications
while also gaining additional value by incorporating their trading partners
into their supply chains. ClearOrbit products work within the existing
enterprise system to leverage a single version of the truth, expanding
rather than duplicating functionality to eliminate inefficiencies in the
supply chain. By using the customer's data model, ClearOrbit delivers on the
promise of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) and SAP (NYSE: SAP) with fully integrated supply chain
execution and collaboration solutions that address last mile functionality
issues inherent in most ERP systems. ClearOrbit customers include Cisco
Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU) and Texas Instruments
(NYSE: TXN). See how enterprise systems can reach a higher level at
www.clearorbit.com or call us at 800-324-5143.