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Building for the future in Electronic Trading

11 January 2006

Whether its conforming to a customer mandate to trade in a particular format, exchanging key purchase and acknowledgment documentation or enjoying collaborative processes for full upstream and downstream visibility, sensing and responding on-demand, focused and rapid-to-deploy supply chain management solutions will be the key to success in today's - and tomorrow's - dynamic and challenging building products world.

A huge business sector by any measure, building products is a major economic driver globally and locally. Recently, revenues for the 25 largest building product contractors topped more than US $200 billion - in industrialised nations, building products accounts for at least four percent of the gross domestic product and, in several countries, the percentage is well above that.

Some segments of the industry have enjoyed buoyant growth in recent years - the leading European companies, for instance, and the US homebuilding sector.

This growth has been fuelled by the frenzy of mergers and acquisitions that reshaped the industry into fewer, larger companies, adding organisational complexity.

More and more, the industry is global and requires enhanced supply chain management capabilities.

Diversification has moved many companies into related and often unrelated businesses with differing products and client services.

Building Products supply chains are complex and diverse which often results in high management costs, poor control , lack of clear process visibility and variable service performance. Stay competitive and improve financial performance by rapidly and cost effectively implementing collaborative business processes across your corporation, trading partners and customers to address these business issues.

By deploying Wesupply.com you can avoid the traditional systems approach which involves purchasing applications, databases, integration tools, networks and then taking the responsibility for configuring the solution, integrating it, deploying it and maintaining it (typically at incredibly high internal cost).

Wesupply.com is a robust and proven on-demand solution available 24x7, 365 days a year around the globe. It is totally scaleable and can be deployed to address simple, focused or complex initiatives. It can be implemented in 90 days, with typical payback in 180 days. Experience the difference with this new generation of on-demand solution and:

• Manage supply chain complexity
• Deliver a superior service
• Reduce cost.

Summary of Benefits:

• Increased customer service levels.
• Increased working capital by lowering inventory across the extended enterprise.
• Reduction of highly manual, error prone and costly demand and fulfilment processes.
• Reduction of emergency transport costs.
• Seamless integration of previously high cost and/or error prone supply chain communications - EDI, phone, fax and/or email.
• Shortened cycle and lead times (demand and supply).
• Improved forecasting capability.
• Real-time visibility of demand and/or inventory information.
• Reduction of late and/or incorrect deliveries.
• Proactive identification and resolution of issues within the supply chain.
• Reduction of manual intervention throughout the accounts payable process.
• Pro-actively highlights exceptions within the supply chain, while also providing recommendations to the user to resolve issues quickly.
• Allows for real time collaboration on demand and supply either internally or externally with customers and/or trading partners.
• Wesupply.com works with companies like SGBD, Caradon and Kohler Mira to leverage the power of electronic collaboration with customers and trading partners.

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