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Paladin Associates Partners with CombineNet to Bring Enhanced Sourcing Management
Capabilities to Mid-Market Clients
ATLANTA, GA and PITTSBURGH, PA — April 27, 2011
Paladin Associates, provider of strategic sourcing consulting solutions with expertise
in finance and operations management, has partnered with CombineNet, the leader
in advanced sourcing technology, to bring improved sourcing solution capabilities
to mid-sized enterprises.
Paladin Associates, whose staff brings deep spend category experience and knowledge
of best practices at Fortune 500 companies, now offers the CombineNet Advanced Sourcing
Application Platform (ASAP) to deliver swifter time-to-benefit for client sourcing
initiatives. Paladin’s use of CombineNet ASAP will enable their clients to achieve
new cost reduction results across a wide range of enterprise spend areas, while
reducing supply chain risk and improving overall operational efficiencies.
"This partnership will address a significant solution gap that exists within many
mid-sized companies today, which is the absence of an effective optimization-driven
sourcing tool that can dramatically improve the supplier bid process and easily
optimize sourcing awards decisions,” said Robert Matthews, Executive Partner at
Paladin. "CombineNet ASAP will allow our expert services teams to deliver this key
strategic advantage to clients."
CombineNet's Vice President of Strategic Business Development, Dean Arnold, stated:
"Our strategy at CombineNet is to make our advanced sourcing product easier to adopt
and drive benefit to a larger array of customers. Paladin is an ideal partner for
us to help mid-market clients achieve results similar to those found within our
largest customers who are using our sourcing technology."
The CombineNet ASAP technology is leveraged as part of Paladin’s project consulting
engagements for any spend category: direct materials, indirect spend, transportation,
packaging, and corporate services. Paladin’s use of CombineNet ASAP will help clients
conduct better online supplier bid collection, consider alternative supplier responses,
consider price and non-price factors, and run optimal scenarios to arrive at best-value
supplier awards decisions.
About Paladin Associates
Paladin Associates Inc. is a sourcing consulting and services company of experienced
professionals with extensive financial and operating expertise in Fortune 500 organizations.
Paladin Associates provides spend analysis, sourcing staff resource augmentation,
sourcing event management, and cost take-out programs on a daily fee or contingency
basis. Contingency-based programs afford clients risk-free cost reduction opportunities.
For more information, visit:
http://www.paladinassociatesinc.com/ .
About CombineNet
CombineNet, Inc. delivers award-winning best-in-class e-sourcing software solutions through its products CombineNet ASAP® for advanced e-sourcing, CombineNet Spend Analysis, and CombineNet Contract Management. Using these Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based sourcing products, CombineNet customers can rapidly adopt proven solutions for increasing spend under management and improving enterprise spend insights. Now in its twelfth year in business, CombineNet is known for its track record in driving significant bottom-line and productivity savings for its clientele which includes: Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Sears, Johnson & Johnson, A.P. Moller-Maersk, Bayer, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser, AstraZeneca, and many more Global 2000 firms.
www.combinenet.com.
Media Contacts:
Jen Bannan
The Bannan Group
Phone: 412.580.3675
Email: jenbannan@thebannangroup.com