Intelisys Helping Casad Company Dramatically Extend Its Reach
23 February 2000
Intelisys Helping Casad Company Dramatically Extend Its Reach in the Growing Business-to-business E-commerce Marketplace
NEW YORK--Feb. 23, 2000--Approximately Three Million New Businesses
Intelisys Electronic Commerce Inc., a leader in global business-to-business electronic commerce, today announced that Casad Company, a leading supplier of imprinted promotional products for corporations worldwide, will sell to Intelisys' three purchasing communities as a Premier Supplier.
Intelisys provides Casad Promotional Products with three high-quality opportunities to reach business markets that it could not easily access through traditional channels. Intelisys provides the infrastructure through its powerful IEC-Portal(TM) technology.
-- Autolink.com, the first-ever vertical automotive purchasing
community, serving 300,000 automotive dealers and aftermarket
repair facilities. The online purchasing network is expected to
process over $5 billion in transactions each year, yielding
savings for participants ranging from hundreds to thousands of
dollars monthly.
-- Intuit's QuickBooks Purchasing Service, expected to be functional
later this Spring. This includes over two million small business
customers who purchase more than $500 billion a year of goods and
services and are among the largest and most loyal small business
customer bases.
-- The Chase.com purchasing community, which serves Chase Manhattan
Bank's 350,000 business customers and will be live in the first
half of 2000. It is part of a broader business portal in
development, expected to provide an array of services, including
payments, logistics, digital certificates, auctions, and credit
reporting. This initiative aims to build business customer
loyalty so that they will use the portal for all or a majority of
their e-commerce needs.
The open system that Intelisys uses allows Casad to leverage their existing online catalog and reputation as a leading Internet supplier. The company offers over 380 different categories of imprintable items for corporate advertising and marketing efforts via their Web site. Items run the gamut from hats, shirts and golf balls to first aid kits, fly swatters and recycled paper products.
As their business model allows them to keep costs low, Casad guarantees the corporate end-user the lowest price available. Additionally, they offer value-added services via their online catalog such as case histories of successful promotions so that corporate clients can choose the promotional piece best suited to their marketing needs.
"The Intelisys procurement solution enables us to give buyers quick and easy access to over 100,000 imprinted promotional products, to offer extra discounts and to automate and streamline customer ordering," said Tom Casad, President, Casad Promotional Products. "We are very excited to be able to tap into their purchasing communities."
Pat Cowan, Vice President of Supplier Adoption said: "Intelisys is committed to creating a pool of suppliers that meet a diverse spectrum of buyer needs. By bringing buyers and suppliers into one pool, Intelisys helps businesses share costs, multiply their ability to reach new customers and dramatically reduce their administrative burden. Now, corporate customers can buy almost any imprintable product imaginable from Casad from one convenient portal."
Intelisys' patented Supplier Management Content(TM) solutions allow suppliers to become Internet-enabled for a wide variety of purchasers. Suppliers like Casad Company, who already sell on the Web, can integrate their existing e-commerce catalog into the system. Those without existing online catalogues can use a third party catalogue builder or a simple browser-based e-commerce tool kit to create a new one. Using the SMC solutions, suppliers can automate the entire process from requisition to payment.
About Casad Company
Casad Company Inc. (www.casad.com) is a national Internet leader for "corporate" imprinted promotional items that companies use to promote their company's products, services and image. Casad Promotional Products serves small, medium and Fortune 1000 company clients worldwide. Casad's web site features over 100,000 custom imprintable items to choose from online, low minimum order quantities, rush service available and Casad's lowest price guarantee.
About Intelisys Electronic Commerce
Headquartered in New York, Intelisys Electronic Commerce, Inc. (www.intelisys.com) is the leading enabler of business-to-business purchasing exchanges and provider of Internet-based purchasing applications for organizations of all sizes. Intelisys' suite of products, based on open standards and supplier managed content, provides private and public entities with the easiest and fastest way to use the Internet to dramatically reduce the high cost of procuring goods and services and achieve results.
Intelisys is applying its Internet procurement expertise and hallmark ease-of-use to meet the e-commerce needs of both buyers and suppliers. Formed in 1996, Intelisys clients include Texas Instruments, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Autolink.com, Telstra, The Ford Motor Company, Western Geophysical (a division of Baker Hughes), The Chase Manhattan Bank, San Diego State University, the State Government of South Australia, and the States of New York, Massachusetts, Texas, Utah and Idaho.