Brings Together Award-Winning Technology with Integration Services
Gloucester, Mass. and Wayland, Mass, April 26, 2006 — TradeStone Software, the leader in enabling domestic and international sourcing through a Unified Buying Process, today announced it has chosen Tourtellotte Solutions as an integration partner. The partnership brings together two companies with a strong history of providing top technology and professional services to retailers, manufacturers, trading companies and other organizations integral to the supply chain. Based on customer requirements, TradeStone will work with Tourtellotte to integrate the TradeStone Unified Buying solution suite into new customers’ complex, multi-system environments.
“TradeStone and Tourtellotte are friendly competitors that are excited about working together where their offerings are complementary,” said Sue Welch, CEO of TradeStone. “We are always looking for opportunities where the customer wins and the TradeStone-Tourtellotte alliance is certainly one of those opportunities.”
TradeStone’s award-winning TradeStone Suite is a set of Web-based application modules that creates exclusive commerce communities of retail buyers, suppliers, trading companies, agents and inspectors. Together the solution provides retailers with the technology infrastructure they need to manage all aspects of the unified buying process, from the concept design and planning refinement to publishing RFQs and selecting bids, from the initiation of an order through quality testing and production, to shipment and financial reconciliation, while providing a real-time view into each step.
Since 1998, Tourtellotte Solutions has been building one of the finest integration and development services organizations in the supply chain vertical. Tourtellotte understands the real world constraints and timelines that can make or break success during an integration project. The combination joins two companies with a wealth of expertise in the retail space and combines the knowledge base of each. Thanks to the agreement, TradeStone’s customers will have access to Tourtellotte’s considerable systems integration expertise while TradeStone continues to deliver software innovation and development for its award-winning TradeStone Suite.
“We’re excited to be working with TradeStone Software, implementing their Unified Buying Process,” stated Ed Tourtellotte, president of Tourtellotte Solutions. “Our integration experts understand the complexities of today’s retail IT environments and shares TradeStone’s goal of rapid implementations and we are in fact most comfortable in rapid development, time-sensitive environments.”
TradeStone Software and Tourtellotte Solutions will continue to offer their respective sourcing applications to the market, a healthy competition that benefits retailers.
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About Tourtellotte Solutions
Tourtellotte Solutions is a software and services company offering packaged and custom-built technology solutions that reduce the complexity and variability of supply chain processes. Tourtellotte Solutions uses its domain expertise, deep technical knowledge, and a disciplined consulting approach to optimize underperforming products and the processes that underlie them. Our products include the industry leading Rockblocks™ (formerly QRS Sourcing) and the groundbreaking clinical trials modeler/forecaster tcVisualize. Tourtellotte customers include Pfizer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Parexel, Staples, The Home Depot, Argos, Federated Department Stores, Target, Saks, and Payless. Tourtellotte Solutions is based in Wayland, Mass. and can be found on the Web at www.tci9.com.
About TradeStone Software, Inc.
TradeStone Software enables retailers and manufacturers to plan, design, collaborate on and purchase goods from across the world as easily as from across the street. TradeStone’s Unified Buying Engine uses Web services technology to layer across an organization’s existing infrastructure while its modular software fills in buying process gaps to provide a single view, access and interaction across the entire procurement process. The first and only complete solution for global sourcing, product lifecycle management, and unified order management, TradeStone’s intuitive, “No Training” technology helps people throughout the supply chain to collaborate globally, enabling users to focus on speeding innovative products to market. Marquee customers include American Eagle Outfitters, The Children’s Place, Deutsche Woolworth, Ocean State Job Lot, Pacific Alliance and Federated Department Stores. TradeStone Software is based in Gloucester, Mass. and can be found on the Web at www.TradeStoneSoftware.com.
Contact:
Gary Hynes or Lisa Sawhney
508 653 2770
rockblocks@tci9.com