The Budd Company Chooses Synapz for Web-Based Procurement and Fulfillment Services

    NORTHVILLE, Mich., May 2 Synapz, a leading e-commerce
solution provider, has recently landed a new contract to provide its Eclipz
product to The Budd Company, a leading automotive supplier based in Troy,
Mich.
    In addition to the company's current customer base, Synapz's Eclipz -- a
Web-based materials procurement and fulfillment system -- will be rolled out
to a large portion of Budd's direct and indirect suppliers.  The company will
utilize all features available through Eclipz.
    "We are pleased to provide our services to such a highly regarded
automotive leader," said Robert C. Paul, president and COO of Synapz.  "We are
confident that The Budd Company could begin generating dramatic results with
their suppliers almost immediately."
    Eclipz is a technology that enables automotive suppliers to extend and
manage the flow of data between thousands of supplier companies in an
affordable, easy and virtually risk-free manner.  It revolutionizes the
extremely complex process of data exchange and order fulfillment for
automotive suppliers and their sub-tier suppliers by handling all demand-
ordering applications for direct and indirect materials.  Eclipz allows a
supplier to receive orders, confirm shipments and send orders to suppliers via
the Internet directly from the customers' procurement or inventory system.
    It also offers a number of integrated applications that include bar
coding, e-mail notification of customer requirements and a supplier gateway to
link an Enterprise Resource Planning and Materials Resource Planning (ERP/MRP)
application.
    Budd, with annual revenues of $2.6 billion, employs 13,000 in 39
facilities worldwide.  Budd produces body components from sheet metal,
composites and aluminum, as well as chassis frames and modules, castings,
prototypes, cold weather products and air bag components.
    Budd is part of the ThyssenKrupp Automotive of Bochum, Germany, one of the
world's leading automotive suppliers.
    Northville, Mich.-based Synapz is a leading demand-management software
firm that draws upon more than 17 years of automotive original equipment
industry experience.  Synapz offers a range of Web-based products, including
Eclipz.

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