Aspect Development Opens State-of-the-Art Customer Center As Resource for eBusiness Best Practices
Aspect Customer Center Enables Executives to Learn About Best Practices In eCommerce and Infrastructure Solutions for Inbound Supply Chain Management In
Collaborative Environment
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Aspect Development, Inc., the global leader in e-Business solutions for Inbound Supply Chain Management, today announced the opening of the Aspect Customer Center, located at the company's new headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The Aspect Customer Center offers a collaborative learning environment for executives investigating eBusiness solutions ranging from creating or participating in Internet Exchange Portals, enterprise eProcurement and Product Development systems, and Inbound Supply Chain Management. A variety of workshops are available at the Aspect Customer Center running from one-half day to a day-and-a-half in length, customized to individual interests around the topic areas of Visioning, Best Practices, Assessment, User, Technology, and Implementation.
The Center is already booked through the first half of the quarter. Aspect customers such as Dana Corporation and Ashland Inc. attended workshops early this month.
"My experience at the Aspect Customer Center was extremely productive," said Nick Cole, president of Dana's Off-Highway Systems Group. "The Center is a great place to focus and get things accomplished towards our implementation of Aspect's eSource solution while at the same time gaining exposure to the value proposition behind additional enterprise solutions like eDesign. We're excited about using the Center in the future for workshops on upcoming Aspect activity."
Terry Tyler, director of Strategic Sourcing for Ashland Inc. said, "The Aspect Customer Center was an excellent environment for us to see the latest thinking in collaborative eBusiness,strategic sourcing, and inbound supply chain management, and to share our own goals with experts in the field."
Aspect Development's Customer Center has been designed to engage leaders inside their company and from their company's supply base in designing, planning and executing Inbound Supply Chain initiatives. Different workshops are designed to accommodate the various phases of each company's buying and/or research cycle.
Aspect Customer Center Workshops
-- Visioning: designed to help customers understand why Aspect's decision
support technology is needed to improve design or procurement
operations.
-- Best Practices: defines how customers utilize Aspect solutions to meet
strategic goals.
-- Assessment: examines the impact of the specific Aspect solution on the
customer's organization from a process and value perspective.
-- User: provides hands-on exposure to Aspect's eBusiness solutions.
-- Technology: provides an advanced overview of the technology.
-- Implementation: enables customer attendees to discuss either high level
or in-depth deployment initiatives, and goals for various solutions
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