Vinimaya, the leading provider of next generation E-Procurement Catalog and B2B Shopping Solutions, has announced that one of its customers – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) – will be a keynote presenter at ProcureCon 2008.

In their presentation titled, "Accelerating Supplier Enablement to Drive ‘Lights Out’ Procurement", James A. Szilagy, Chief Supply Chain Officer, UPMC, and Michael DeLuca, Director, Supply Chain Systems & Consulting Services, UPMC, will be discussing how they successfully deployed Vinimaya’s SmartSearch Catalog solution with their PeopleSoft Enterprise eProcurement system to create a company-wide, fully automated, self-service purchasing environment.

UPMC is one of the country’s largest integrated health care enterprises, with $7 billion in revenue and 50,000 employees, and has been widely recognized for its innovations in health care supply chain management. Through its wholly owned unit – Prodigo Solutions LLC – UPMC holds a license to market e-procurement solutions from Vinimaya to other health care providers.

ProcureCon is considered one of the industry’s most comprehensive strategic sourcing and procurement conferences. Vinimaya, along with industry leaders Co-Exprise, American Express, Archstone Consulting and AT Kearney, are sponsoring the event, which is being held November 10-12 at the JW Marriott in Las Vegas.