Atlanta, GA – February 21, 2012 - b-pack, the leader in purchase-to-pay technology, today announced its Vendor Management solution is consolidating its Vendor Certification process. This solution, available in the Cloud or On Premise, helps companies to optimize their Risk Management, thanks to innovative features such as Scorecarding, Automatic Alerts and Purchase-to-Pay integration.

b-pack has added a Vendor Certification capability to its Vendor Management solution, contributing to companies competitiveness in this challenging economic context.b-pack’s current vendor certification process provides organizations with better risk management, an important element mandated by regulations such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in the U.S. and the Federal Data Protection Act or Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG) in Germany.

b-pack enables companies to proactively monitor vendor certification and performance by driving compliance with their procedures and policy, avoiding issues that could impact their business such as delivery disruption or failure. In order to select the right supplier, b-pack makes sure all pre-registered vendors have the ability to answer company’s requirements by capturing information about their certification and other key information needed.

When a vendor is selected and authorized, b-pack optimizes the risk management by ensuring the company keeps its certification based on the selection criteria. Thanks to its score carding capability, b-pack can check multiple criteria in order to drive compliance and guarantee performance. In order to track the certification of all type of industry, b-pack can manage multiple certifications such as ISO certification, Six Sigma, DODD and CE mark.

With b-pack, businesses can consolidate long-term relationships with preferred vendors and minimize supplier risk. b-pack constantly ensures vendor certifications are up to date through effective controls and renewal process improvements. When a certification is about to expire, the application automatically send alerts to notify both the company and the vendor. As a result, the vendor can update its certifications on time by sending the new documents to its client. In case a vendor does not update its certification on time, the system will automatically unauthorized the vendor. The vendor will be authorized again when updating its certification.

Atlanta, GA – February 14, 2012 - b-pack, the leader in purchase-to-pay technology, today announced they have joined forces with Retail Synergy, a retail specialist consultancy, to distribute its Flexible and On-Demand solutions supporting eProcurement, Contract Management and Sourcing functionalities among others.

As a certified reseller, Retail Synergy now assists b-pack in distributing its solutions. Retail Synergy is an integrator of b-pack’s software and will lead the implementation of projects, focusing on developing the business in Eastern Europe. Thanks to their international presence, this partnership will improve b-pack’s presence in markets such as Poland, Russia and Brazil.

“The partnership with b-pack is for Retail Synergy a new step in the strategy of building the complete offer of modern, flexible, ready-to-use solutions for our customers. b-pack purchase-to-pay solution delivered in SaaS mode provides very efficient answer and optimizes costs in very short time without investments in IT infrastructure. We are proud to start this partnership with b-pack.” said Piotr Jelinowski, co-founder of Retail Synergy.

“We are really happy to be working with a retail specialist consultancy like Retail Synergy,” said Julien Nadaud, CEO and founder of b-pack Inc. “As a Top 5 eProcurement Vendor according to Gartner, this strategic partnership allows us to reinforce our position in growing markets like Brazil, Russia, Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe. Retail Synergy is now a key partner in implementing b-pack’s solutions and reaching out to companies looking for innovative solutions delivered in the Cloud or On Premise.”

About Retail Synergy

With over 20 years of experience in improving business performance of players in the trade sector all over the world, Retail Synergy has been able to develop a unique range of solutions. Retail Synergy believes in creating meaningful values built on synergy of forces: modern tools and professional experience, information technology and business, in-depth assessment and fast implementation. For more information please visit http://www.retail-synergy.com

Atlanta, GA – February 7, 2012 - b-pack, the leader in purchase-to-pay technology, today announced b-pack’s builder®, a tool dedicated to the management of b-pack client’s applications. This new builder® provides maximum security level for the entire b-pack Cloud infrastructure.

While many businesses are looking for flexibility and cost reduction by adopting a SaaS purchase-to-pay solution in the Cloud, others remain concerned about data security, such as data sharing (multi-tenant), data residency and data ownership.
b-pack makes it easy for organizations with high data privacy requirements to deploy their eProcurement solution and purchasing software in the Cloud by providing secure environments thanks to b-pack’s builder®.

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Atlanta,GA - February 1, 2012 - b-pack, the leader in purchase-to-pay technology, continues to release videos about their purchase-to-pay solutions. After illustrating their Asset Management module, this video illustrates how b-pack assists companies managing their Travel and Expenses by delivering innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions in the cloud.

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