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To: Voltaire who wrote (82118)11/24/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (2) of 176387
 
A welcome trend,certainly for DELL.

Voltaire:

Here is a welcome trend which could enhance DELL's business along with many others who are becoming virtual corporations.If you notice a couple of the companies listed here are already DELL's customers I think.The more the merrier I say.
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Courtesy:InformationWeek. Excerpts only.

Big Businesses Continue Move To Online Procurement

Merck & Co. is the latest large corporation to move suppliesprocurement to the Internet. In January, the $23 billionpharmaceuticals maker will begin deploying the Operating Resource Management System application from Ariba Technologies Inc. for online procurement of nonproduction or indirect supplies, on which it spends about $2 billion annually.

Merck will be the fifth company among the 50 largest firms in the U.S. to adopt the Internet for procurement, joining Ford, General Electric, United Technologies, and another Ariba customer, Chevron. Merck declines to comment, but Ariba says Merck will begin with a two-month pilot with key suppliers prior to a rollout at all U.S. locations that integrates ORMS with its financial and accounting applications. Next month, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. will also begin using Ariba ORMS to automate part of its $75 million a year activity in indirect materials procurement.......

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