Top Companies Rely On Vinimaya

Vinimaya provides solutions to both buyers and suppliers across many vertical markets.

Buyer Examples

Sunoco  www.sunoco.com, a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products, implemented SmartSearch Catalog in 2003 with their Ariba Buyer system. Today, more than 8,500 users access over 136 catalogs, representing three million SKUs. The company has captured 100% of targeted catalog spend and greatly reduced supplier costs.

Sylvan Learning  www.educate.com, is the leading provider of supplemental education services to students of all ages and skill levels. After a successful pilot, Sylvan deployed SmartSearch Catalog in 2004 with their Ariba Buyer system accessing supplier catalogs representing over 1 Million SKU’s.

3M Corporation  www.mmm.com, one of the world’s largest diversified technology companies, implemented the SmartSearch Catalog in 2004 with both Ariba Buyer and PeopleSoft eProcurement concurrently. Today, 3M users can purchase from 51 catalogs, representing more than seven million available SKUs worldwide. The company ultimately standardized on Peoplesoft and avoided the cost of migrating their catalogs from Ariba to Peoplesoft.

Corning Incorporated www.corning.com, a company with a 150-year history of developing breakthrough technologies that significantly improve people’s lives, deployed SmartSearch Catalog globally in 2005, to complement their world-wide implementation of a PeopleSoft eProcurement system. Corning has 52 catalogs, representing access to over one million SKUs

Agilent Technologies  www.agilent.com, the world's premier measurement company, globally deployed SmartSearch Catalog in 2005 to complement the company’s global implementation of Oracle iProcure. Seeking to regain control of user buying habits they had lost using XML punchout, Agilent now has 108 catalogs are available to end users.

Alcoa www.alcoa.com, the world's leading producer and manager of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina facilities, has used SmartSearch Catalog since 2006 to improve its supplier enablement capabilities and catalog usability. Alcoa’s Vinimaya solution is used worldwide in conjunction with its Oracle iProcure implementation; the company has deployed SmartSearch Catalog to users in North America, South America and Australia and currently has more than 375 supplier catalogs available, representing millions of SKUs.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)  www.upmc.com, one of the country’s leading integrated health care enterprises and nonprofit medical centers, with nearly $6 billion in revenue and more than 43,000 employees, implemented SmartSearch Catalog in 2006 with PeopleSoft eProcurement as a key component of its “Lights Out” purchasing initiative, and has users accessing over 30 catalogs, fully integrated with UPMC’s inventory item master.

EDS (Electronic Data Systems)  www.eds.com, implemented SmartSearch Catalog in 2007 as part of their EDS Mall initiative, which provides EDS employees with one-stop shopping for supplies, IT and MRO items. EDS is currently expanding use of the EDS Mall globally, initially to Europe in 2008.

Cooper Industries www.cooperindustries.com, a world-wide leader in the manufacturing of electrical products, implemented SmartSearch Catalog in 2008 to complement their existing SAP SRM/EBP deployment, with over 30 online catalogs available to users.

Supplier Examples

Ferguson Enterprises is one of the world’s largest distributors of plumbing supplies and HVAC equipment. Ferguson uses the SmartSearch Catalog to connect their product catalog to customers using SAP, Ariba and CommerceOne eProcurement systems.

Missouri Power Transmission, a distributor of power transmission equipment and industrial supplies, uses the SmartSearch Catalog to integrate its catalog directly with customers’ eProcurement systems.

Nelson-Jameson, a leading supplier of products used by food, dairy and beverage processing facilities, uses the SmartSearch Catalog to provide “one order, one shipment, one invoice” convenience to its customers.