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--Mike Buckley
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DENVER and SICILY, Italy, Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC), a leading provider of e-business solutions that deliver speed and agility, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Andersen Consulting to co-develop a new enterprise solution to allow consumer packaged good companies to better manage their supplier and customer relationships. The solution will combine J.D. Edwards' supply chain planning and execution technologies with Siebel Systems' eConsumer Goods eBusiness Applications and draw on Andersen Consulting's electronic commerce skills and deep experience in working with the world's leading food and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies.
Siebel eConsumer Goods empowers brand and key account managers to collaborate electronically on the creation, distribution, management, and analysis of simultaneous campaigns and promotions across products, categories, accounts, and regions.
Andersen Consulting will provide a range of consulting services to support this new solution, and will embark on a number of joint sales and marketing activities with J.D. Edwards.
"There is a big opportunity for consumer packaged goods companies to drive significant value by integrating their customer relationship management activities back through the supply chain process. This solution will enable companies to take advantage of those benefits," said Marty Leestma, a partner with Andersen Consulting, responsible for the firm's North American Food &
Consumer Packaged Goods practice.
J.D. Edwards has expanded its previous agreement with Siebel Systems to include the capability to resell all Siebel Systems' Applications worldwide, including the Siebel eConsumer Goods product.
"This joint solution will enable consumer goods companies to achieve seamless integration between their marketing, sales, and service activities and the critical demand planning and supply chain activities, thereby providing a significant opportunity to enhance customer satisfaction," said Ed Abbo, vice president, industry products, Siebel Systems.
"This is the first integrated brand management, planning and execution system that allows real time collaboration. It will empower companies to make better decisions about how to promote and sell their products to increase their margins and profitability," said Doug Massingill, president and CEO of J.D. Edwards. "This is a powerful team that combines Siebel Systems' customer-centric eBusiness Applications designed specifically for the CPG industry, Andersen Consulting's industry, implementation, and eCommerce experience, and our robust supply chain technologies. This solution provides the market-leading customer relationship management, e-business, and end-to- end supply chain solution for these industries."
J.D. Edwards will also launch an early adopter program for food and consumer packaged goods companies to provide input into the solution's components and become beta customers. The Company expects to start enrolling customers in Europe, focusing on complex supply chain requirements of Fast Moving Consumer Goods companies, as well as other global customers beginning in the Spring of 2000.
"The vision is excellent. It all starts with trade promotion management from Siebel Systems' eConsumer Goods suite to support promotion planning, execution, and analysis. More important than Andersen Consulting's contribution on the development and integration front is the firm's support of sales opportunities at the high end of the market and ability to sell value and vision," said Rod Johnson, senior analyst, enterprise applications, AMR Research, Inc. "Only through this integration can companies start managing promotion effectiveness and improving forecast accuracy and, in the end, understand the real sources of profitability."
About Andersen Consulting
Andersen Consulting is an $8.3 billion global management and technology consulting organization whose mission is to help its clients create their future. The firm works with clients from a wide range of industries to bring about far-reaching change by aligning their people, processes and technology with their strategy. Andersen Consulting has more than 65,000 people in 48 countries. Its home page address is ac.com.
About Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEBL) is the world's leading provider of eBusiness Applications software. Siebel Systems provides an integrated family of eBusiness Application software enabling multi-channel sales, marketing and customer service systems to be deployed over the Web, call centers, field, reseller channels, retail and dealer networks. Siebel Systems' sales and service facilities are located in more than 26 countries. For more information, please visit Siebel's Web site at www.Siebel.com.
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action(TM) software for managing the virtual enterprise and supply chain. The Company's integrated applications deliver e-business solutions that deliver speed and agility for front office, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra(TM), a collection of tools and technologies that extend J.D. Edwards' OneWorld(TM) and WorldSoftware(TM) enterprise business software and its active supply chain planning solutions. ActivEra allows customers to change their software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The Company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT(R), UNIX(R) and OS/400(R), and are Java(TM) and HTML enabled.
Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 800-727-5333, or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com. |
