Fullscope Gains Momentum Through Series of Customer Wins; Customer Base Grows as Companies Continue to Rely on WiseXE E-commerce Collaborative Platform
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--May 12, 2003--Fullscope (www.fullscope.com), a leading provider of Collaborative Commerce solutions automating value chain collaboration, announced today it has signed 5 new WiseXE customers during the first quarter of 2003 that include companies such as E-One (www.e-one.com) and Sonoco (www.sonoco.com). Fullscope is allowing these companies to enable collaborative commerce between their trading partners and customers using its WiseXE product suite.The WiseXE product portfolio provides Fortune 2000 companies with a complete software solution using thin e-commerce technology to seamlessly extend business processes to the Web. WiseXE leverages critical sales information, such as customer orders, quotations, pricing, invoicing and statements, that is traditionally maintained in back office ERP systems, and extends the business processes to customers and their partners collaborating and sharing information such as available to promise and delivery status in real-time on the Web.
"The momentum that Fullscope has gained in the marketplace through these customer successes is a testament to the value that WiseXE can bring to a company," said Don Springer, President and CEO at Fullscope. "Major mid-market manufacturers such as Sonoco and E-One are realizing the importance of implementing a solution such as WiseXE to access and share real-time product information and ensure better customer and partner communications for faster revenue generation."
Recent customer wins include:
-- E-One, a worldwide designer, manufacturer and marketer of fire
rescue vehicles with more than 23,000 vehicles in operation
around the world.
"We were looking for a collaborative commerce solution that could integrate with our Baan system and make it easier for our dealers to order replacement parts for their customers," said Ted Stoddard, Director of Information Technology at E-One. "WiseXE was the best tool available for complete, easy-to-use integration with our Baan system. With WiseXE we will now have a simple, efficient way for our dealers to research and purchase our replacement parts online, which will help us better serve our customers while achieving internal efficiencies."
-- Sonoco , a $2.8 billion manufacturer of industrial
and consumer products and provider of packaging services with
approximately 300 operations and 17,400 employees in 32
countries, serving customers in 85 nations. Sonoco is
currently implementing WiseXE in its industrial products and
high density film operations to simplify and improve the
efficiencies of its business processes and make ERP data
available to its distribution centers.
"WiseXE offers Sonoco a cost-effective way to leverage the data in our Baan ERP systems and increase the reliability of our order entry and shop floor data collection processes," said Bernie Campbell, vice president and CIO, Sonoco. "WiseXE allows us to reduce our internal process time to improve efficiencies within our organization. We expect a positive return on the projects using WiseXE, which will be in production later this year."
About WiseXE Suite
WiseXE is comprised of a complete product portfolio to meet the evolving needs of mid-market manufacturers:
| -- | WiseVIEW - a portal to connect to the back office to view customer information including order status, statements, invoices, inventory history, shipping details, and more. |
| -- | WiseB2B - a suite of pre-bundled transactional business processes with supporting functions to leverage information in the back office. Enables B2B transactions in real-time including B2B sales, B2C catalog, order entry, warehouse inventory management and fulfillment, quotation entry, competitive analysis, configuration, and others. |
| -- | WiseAPP Framework - a development environment that provides tools to create and customize forward facing applications that are tightly integrated to enterprise applications. |
The WiseXE suite is currently available. For additional information, contact Heather Ward at 1-888-499-0100 ext. 228.
About Fullscope
Fullscope is focused on helping Fortune 2000 companies automate their value chain by extending ERP functions with a company's trading partners. By gathering, connecting and automating internal business processes and leveraging the information stored in ERP systems, mid-tier manufacturers can provide their customer service teams with the information they need, cost effectively, to build long lasting customer relationships.
Fullscope was founded in 1999 as a mid-market e-business solution provider. In February 2002, Fullscope merged with RedKlay, an enterprise solutions provider since 1995. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Fullscope is led by a high performance executive team with successful track records leading mid-market companies into dynamic market opportunities.