EDIFICE 108^th Plenary
June 3-4, 2009  London, UK

Jointly sponsored by

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"Re-defining B2B Communities through simplified and efficient operations"

Message from the Hosts

INOVIS

Inovis has a deep heritage in the Computing, Electronics and Telecommunications markets and is happy to be able to recognise a number of the members of EDIFICE as customers for many years. During this time of current economic unrest, Inovis believes it is even more critical that organizations are able to operate efficient supply chains that remove cost from their business operations.

Inovis is a leading provider of on-demand Business Community Management solutions that enable companies to transact, collaborate and optimise communications with their entire trading community. By standardising and automating mission-critical business interactions, companies can dramatically reduce the complexity and cost of supply chain communication. This foundation of high-quality, reliable and secure connectivity provides real-time visibility across the supply chain. The resulting actionable intelligence enables users to proactively address supply chain issues before they impact profitability, shortening cycle times, improving productivity and increasing customer satisfaction.

IBM

IBM is both an active founding member of EDIFICE and a leading provider of solutions and services to the Computing, Electronics and Telecommunications markets. In IBM's view, today's networked economy has created a global business landscape and a mandate for business change. Integrated global economies have opened markets of new opportunity and the Internet has enabled communication and collaboration across the world and brought with it a new model premised on continuous global connection.

IBM offers one of the largest retail supply chain management (SCM) practices in the world, with more than 8,000 professionals. The SCM practice fuses business process and technology insights to help organisations across multiple dimensions – supply chain strategy, planning, product lifecycle management, sourcing and procurement, operations, asset management, logistics and enterprise applications. Through an existing portfolio of applications and an extensive network of alliances, IBM can combine consulting expertise with leading supply chain technologies to deliver innovation and business value to supply chain across the business world.

 For more information visit www.ibm.com/retail   

IBM AND INOVIS

IBM and Inovis have worked in collaboration for many years to ensure our joint customers are able to leverage best in class capabilities to optimize their supply chain processes. We are excited to take this opportunity to jointly host this plenary session and to be able to present to the EDIFICE members our views on current supply chain improvement opportunities and to present some customer experiences.