Culinary Innovation Meets Supply Chain Innovation: Elior North America Selects iTradeNetwork’s Spend Management and Branded Procurement Solutions for Supply Chain Transparency and Flexibility

DUBLIN, Calif. (GLOBENEWSWIRE) -- Charlotte-based Elior North Americahas selected iTradeNetwork’s SpendManagement and Branded Procurementapplications to streamline its supply chain operations, reduce operationalcosts, and leverage sophisticated analytics to make data-driven decisionsquickly.

Combining Branded Procurement’s orderingcapabilities with Spend Management’sintegration, compliance, monitoring and analytics features is a powerful 1-2punch for Elior as its team of over 20,000 team members works to offerinnovative culinary experiences to its foodservice and catering clients acrossthe United States.

“We’re excited to combinethese two iTrade applications to achieve greater supply chain visibility,integration, and responsiveness,” comments Michael Martin, SVP of BusinessTransformation at Elior North America. “Having our menu management solutionworking in sync with order guide management, ordering, compliance, and spendanalytics tools will improve operational efficiency; let us know immediatelywhere the best opportunities are in our supply chain to save both time andmoney; and help us identify new contracting opportunities – all while wecontinue to offer our clients the experiences Elior is known for.” 

iTradeNetwork’send-to-end platform approach gives its SpendManagement and Branded Procurementcustomers capabilities like advanced order guide management that helps themreact to changing market conditions quickly, mobile and offline inventory andreceiving, unit compliance reporting, and a full suite of reporting anddashboard analytics.

“We are thrilled towelcome Elior to the iTradeNetwork platform,” says Andrew Lampe, Vice Presidentof Information Technology and Product Development at iTradeNetwork. “Elior willbenefit from a robust end-to-end solution that simplifies their menu planning,provides flexible ordering options, seamlessly integrates with distributors andunits, and quickly adds value to their supply chain operations.”

About iTradeNetwork,Inc.

iTradeNetwork,Inc. is the leading global provider of supply chain management and intelligencesolutions to the food and beverage industry. Built upon deep industryexpertise, a rich data foundation and our industries’ most extensive tradingpartner network, ITN’s collaborative solutions allow distributors,manufacturers, operators, retailers, suppliers and wholesalers of all sizes toreduce cost, grow revenue and strengthen trading partner relationships. Today,ITN’s growing customer list includes over 6,000 global companies. For moreinformation, visit: www.itradenetwork.com.