Commerce One Delivers Solutions to Help Consumer Packaged Goods Companies Meet UCCnet Requirements
Commerce One is First UCCnet Alliance Partner to Offer Both Implementation and Application Solutions for CPG Trading Partners
PLEASANTON, Calif. — July 1, 2002 — Commerce One, (Nasdaq: CMRC), the Business Internet Company, today announced the availability of a suite of implementation tools and services to help companies in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry more easily and efficiently load item and partner content into the UCCnet GLOBALregistry™. Commerce One Xpress™ Suite is designed to enable CPG customers to accelerate time-to-market for new products and improve communication and collaboration with manufacturers and retailers. The suite includes personalized training programs to provide companies of any size with the information necessary to connect to UCCnet. The suite also provides companies with cost-effective tools for automating their UCCnet implementations.
The UCCnet GLOBALregistry is a repository of standards-based product information such as SKU numbers, size, availability and pricing for the CPG industry. Commerce One helps companies accurately upload their product information in the UCCnet GLOBALregistry so that retailers can easily locate items. Some customers have become UCCnet-compliant in as little as three weeks.
"Commerce One provides a complete trading-partner solution ranging from implementation services to application solutions to members of the UCCnet community," said Fred Geiger, senior vice president, product management, UCCnet. "Commerce One`s flexible solutions and industry expertise will help manufacturers in the CPG industry achieve UCCnet compliance more quickly."
Commerce One Xpress Suite:
Commerce One offers manufacturers and retailers a broad range of options to enhance their UCCnet participation. The Commerce One Xpress Suite includes quick-start training programs, called Xpress Workshop, as well as tools and services designed to help organizations meet UCCnet requirements. Organizations can choose solutions that best match their implementation needs, regardless of organization size or number of products, to register on UCCnet. Commerce One Xpress tools and services also align with SYNCtrack™, UCCnet`s implementation roadmap.
"Commerce One has always been a leader in exchanging information between companies and their trading partners. Helping CPG manufacturers and retailers improve communication and collaboration with their retail partners is a natural extension for us," said Andy Hayden, senior vice president of Global Services at Commerce One. "We look forward to helping CPG companies quickly meet UCCnet`s requirements."
For more information on Xpress Suite, please visit www.ebi.commerceone.com.
About Commerce One
Commerce One (Nasdaq: CMRC) is the Business Internet Company. Through its software, services, and global network of interconnected enterprises and e-marketplaces, Commerce One enables organizations to reduce costs and drive productivity by automating business processes between buyers and suppliers. Visit www.commerceone.com for more information.
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of the securities laws. These forward-looking statements discuss the anticipated benefits of using the Commerce One Xpress product suite and Commerce One services to integrate consumer-packaged goods suppliers into the UCCnet GLOBAL Registry. Among the potential benefits attributed to Commerce One products and services, and to UCCnet integration generally, are the following: the ability to load product information on to the UCCnet GLOBAL registry accurately and cost effectively; the ability to help suppliers achieve UCCnet compliance; the ability of Commerce One`s Xpress tools and services to align with UCCnet`s systems; cost savings for suppliers and their customers; accelerated product introduction; improved communication and collaboration between suppliers and their retail customers; and increased agility in complying with industry product-information standards. The words "believe," "expect," "intend," "plan," "project," "will" and similar phrases as they relate to Commerce One are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements reflect the current views and assumptions of Commerce One, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. These factors include, but are not limited to, problems or issues arising from the products or services, the possibility that integration into UCCnet may not meet user expectations, and various external factors, including economic conditions or other trading partner relationships, that may impact the results obtained by particular suppliers, customers or other users. The information provided in this press release is current as of the date of its publication. Commerce One expressly disclaims any obligation to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any changes in expectations, or any change in events or circumstances on which those statements are based, unless otherwise required by law. For a discussion of these and other risk factors that could affect Commerce One`s business, see "Risk Factors" in Commerce One`s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2002.
Contact Information:
Erin Flanigan
Horn Group (for Commerce One)
+1 415 905 4005
eflanigan@horngroup.com
Katie O`Connell
Commerce One
+1 925 520 6094
Katie.Oconnell@commerceone.com
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