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What Customers are Saying About CombineNet

Our customers report strong ROI and value through the use of our sourcing product, CombineNet's Advanced Sourcing Application Platform (ASAP). Benefits include: reducing sourcing costs; improving supply innovation by analyzing more than just price factors; reducing and rationalizing supplier networks; improving productivity and best practices; centralizing sourcing processes; reducing business supply risks; and more.

Read some examples of what CombineNet customers and partners are saying:

The Schindler Group

“This is a mature spend category for Schindler, one that we’ve strategically sourced for 10 years, and yet with CombineNet we were able to achieve excellent cost savings. We’ve tried other solutions that weren’t capable of supporting this category, including Excel spreadsheets. Now I have a tool that works much, much better.”
- Douglas Else-Jack, VP of Purchasing Excellence & Indirects at the Schindler Group.
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Smithfield Foods

"Having used CombineNet for a variety of sourcing events over the past four years, this new subscription agreement to the CombineNet ASAP web-based product will be leveraged by Smithfield Foods’ Strategic Sourcing and Services team to improve sourcing decision-making across a range of spend categories and drive better supply chain and company performance."
- Chris Pope, manager of strategic sourcing at Smithfield Foods.
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A.P. Møller - Mærsk A/S

"We selected CombineNet ASAP to provide us with a solution that can be adopted across multiple spend areas, particularly in complex categories. We believe it will improve our sourcing teams' capabilities in processing and simplifying the collection and analysis of bid data from our suppliers, support strategic sourcing plans, and ultimately drive more value and savings."
- Jacob Gorm Larsen, Senior General Manager, Procurement Technologies.
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Bayer MaterialScience AG

"As a customer of CombineNet, we receive benefits in reducing the data crunching time to a minimum and focusing on the analysis of the data by running different scenarios. In addition, it helps us to consider the service requirements of our regions."
- Lars Bluethner, Lead Ocean Buyer.
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Viterra Australia

"Key factors in selecting CombineNet ASAP were its capabilities in supporting and optimizing sizable sourcing events with various complexities, while also enabling robust yet rapid scenario analysis."
- Paul Osborne, Strategic Sourcing Manager
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Procter & Gamble:

"CombineNet has been a valued source of technological innovation for many years and is now providing easy-to-use solutions which we believe will have broad application in our sourcing. We look forward to realizing the benefits of using this innovative platform."
- Rick Hughes, P&G Vice President Global Purchases.
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Heinz:

"CombineNet's sourcing solutions enable us to find the optimal balance of cost, service and carrier relationships by conducting large, consolidated transportation sourcing events. By expanding our use of CombineNet to include our LTL freight, we can drive additional cost savings and long term value into Heinz through a larger part of our logistics operations."
- Wayne Skinner, Heinz Vice President of Transportation.
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Easton-Bell Sports:

"CombineNet’s Sourcing Solutions are very intuitive; picked up quickly by our vendors and internal users... allowing us to run all of the scenarios we need to reach our conclusions and then some, and the response was virtually immediate."
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Transplace:

"CombineNet brings proven sourcing technology and a history of providing robust capabilities to its customers. We recognized a significant opportunity to combine their best-in-class technology solutions with those of Transplace in order to bring greater value to the market."
- Matthew Menner, VP of Sales.
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