Top Companies Rely On Vinimaya

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

Corning Incorporated www.corning.com,a company with a 150-year history of developing breakthrough technologies that significantly improve people’s lives, deployed Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ globally, to complement their world-wide implementation of a PeopleSoft e-Procurement system. Corning has over 55 catalogs, representing access to over one million SKUs.

Agilent Technologies  www.agilent.com, the world's premier measurement company, globally deployed Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ to complement the company’s global implementation of Oracle iProcure. Seeking to regain control of user buying habits they had lost using XML punch-out, Agilent now has over 110 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 Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ for over 4 years 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 Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ to users in North America, South America and Australia and currently has more than 380 supplier catalogs available, representing millions of SKUs.

Siemens  www.siemens.com has grown to be a global icon, with market leading operating companies spanning Energy, Healthcare, and Industrial Sectors and consolidated revenues in excess of 77 billion Euros by listening to the "voice of the customer." Recently, they listened to internal customers and adopted the Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ to increase e-procurement usability and user adoption.

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Cricket Communications www.mycricket.com, the leading no-contract wireless provider in the U.S., understood the value of Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ early on; they implemented Vinimaya SMT™ concurrently with their Oracle iProcure roll-out. After six months, 88% of their Indirect Spend was being channeled through highly efficient ‘touchless’ punch-out connections to suppliers and their end-user adoption ramped by almost 25%.

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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.

Cooper Industries www.cooperindustries.com, a world-wide leader in the manufacturing of electrical products, implemented Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ to complement their existing SAP SRM/EBP deployment, with over 35 online catalogs available to users.

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.

Sunoco  www.sunoco.com, a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products, implemented Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ with their Ariba Buyer system. Today, more than 8,500 users access over 140 catalogs, representing three million SKUs. The company has captured 100% of targeted catalog spend and greatly reduced supplier costs.

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)  www.upmc.com, one of the country’s leading integrated health care enterprises and nonprofit medical centers, with over $6 billion in revenue and more than 43,000 employees, implemented Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ 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.