Office Depot Inc. and Trilogy
Software Inc. formed a partnership to introduce an extensive e-commerce buy-side
solution for business customers.
The joint effort teams Office Depot Online with
Trilogy’s just
launched Buying Chain, a broad-market product designed to allow business buyers to
realize the benefits of electronic commerce. Buying Chain is made so employees can buy
through a Web browser on their desktops, while the company maintains approval routings
and business rules, it said.
Trilogy and Microsoft will provide joint
marketing support for Trilogy’s Buying Chain product, which will make it easier for
businesses to interact with their partners online. Hewlett-Packard is also a partner.
By providing a buy-side commerce solution that can be quickly deployed on
customer-hosted intranet servers, Office Depot said it will help its customers receive the full
benefit of the Office Depot electronic commerce Web site. With Buying Chain, Office
Depot business customers can authorize employees to
shop and make purchase requests from online catalogs and still ensure controlled buying
behavior, the companies said.
Buying Chain provides Office Depot customers complete access to its product catalog, with
real-time pricing and availability. In addition, companies can create customer catalogs based
on the products at Office Depot Online. Buying Chain customers can make purchase
requests for Office Depot products and
automatically route these requests through internal approval channels before ordering.
Companies can download Buying Chain for a free 30-day trial over the Buying Chain Web site, the firm said, and start
purchasing immediately from Office Depot, software seller Beyond.com and other suppliers.
Trilogy, based in Austin, TX, said a company with 100 users can download the software for
$995, for up to 500 users the software is $4,995 and an unlimited license is available for
$9,995.
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