Dr. Hans Elmsheuser, Head of Global Procurement at Syngenta Crop ProtectionAG, and Gerald Ismaier, General Manager, Central Europe for Emptoris willpresent, "Transforming the Procurement Organisation, Technology as aStrategic Enabler: An Emptoris and Syngenta Case Study." During thepresentation, Syngenta will discuss how the adoption of Emptoristechnologies in areas such as spend analysis, sourcing and contractmanagement is helping accelerate the transformation of Syngenta from "amanufacturing to a sourcing organisation," and ensuring procurement is anengine of growth and innovation for the company.

"Leading procurement organisations are not only surviving today's toughchallenges, but pushing onwards in pursuit of greater value," said GeraldIsmaier, General Manager, Central Europe for Emptoris, Inc., based inMunich, Germany. "Truly world-class procurement organisations can not onlyhelp steer their companies through stormy market conditions, but alsosupport corporate growth and deliver broader value. Their ability to do sois driven in large part by their ability to globally adopt leadingtechnologies, to enable and accelerate innovative procurement strategies."

BME Symposium: Strategies for Challenging Markets

Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik (BME), the GermanAssociation Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics (AMMPL) is theleading association for purchasing and logistics executives in Germany withmore than 6,500 members. The Annual BME Symposium plans discussions atthis year's conference on managing in "Challenging Markets," and promisespresentations that "intensively discuss new tried and tested solutions forglobal procurement, partnerships with suppliers and supply chainmanagement." For further information on the conference, visithttp://www.bme-symposium.de/.

Syngenta: Procurement Transformation and Contract Management Implémentation

Syngenta, a world leading agri-business company with over 21,000 employeesin over 90 countries, and a long standing Emptoris customer, hassuccessfully used the Emptoris Spend Analysis and Emptoris Sourcingsolutions to help transform and modernize its procurement organisation, andrecently implemented the Emptoris Contract Management solution. Syngentaplans to use Emptoris Contract Management for company wide standardizationof its procurement contracts and contract lifecycle management processes.The first phase of their Emptoris Contract Management implementation, whichwas successfully completed in October, was rolled out to 70 users in thefour main regional headquarters for the company in Europe, the UnitedStates, Asia, and South America. Eventually, all Syngenta locations willmanage their procurement contracts within Emptoris Contract Management.

Emptoris Contract Management is the market's most comprehensive contractmanagement solution, spanning every stage of the contract lifecycle, fromproposal and contract creation, negotiation, obligations management, andcompliance enforcement, through contract amendment, renewal, and ongoinganalysis. Forrester Research, a leading independent research and analysisfirm, in research report titled, "The Forrester Wave: Contract Life-CycleManagement, Q3 2008," reviewed 13 contract management software providersand evaluated them on 110 criteria. The report named Emptoris a "leader"in contract management and gave Emptoris Contract Management the report'shighest score for "Current Product Offering." For further information onEmptoris Contract Management, visit:http://www.emptoris.com/solutions/contract_management_software.asp

About Emptoris

Emptoris is a world leader ininnovative supply and contract management software solutions that empower enterprises torealize best value and accelerate profitable growth. Emptoris solutions are used bysuccessful Global 2000 companies in every industry. Customers includeAmerican Express, Boeing, ConocoPhillips, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, Motorola,Owens Corning, Syngenta, and Vodafone.

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