Articles

Talking Efficiency: Corporate Express stays ahead of tight market with the help of a speech-based logistics solution.
Corporate Express uses voice technology to transform Corporate Express’ supply chain into a value chain for both customer and company.
Frontline Solutions, April, 2002

Adapting to Adapters
Corporate Express uses webMethods to integrate data and applications from all Corporate Express systems to a single order entry system.
Computerworld, April 15, 2002

Corporate Express Plans Upgrade to Sun Fire Servers
Information Week’s April 2nd issue featured Andy Miller, Vice President of Technical Architecture for Corporate Express, in a story titled “Corporate Express Plans Upgrade to Sun Fire Servers.” The article discussed Corporate Express’ server consolidation with Sun Microsystems in the past as well as future plans with Sun servers.
InformationWeek, April 2, 2002

Corporate Express and webMethods: A Partnership for Success
Corporate Express is featured as a customer success story on the webMethods Web site. webMethods, an integration software provider, is one of Corporate Express’ technology partners, and a key component of our overall strategic systems vision. Corporate Express currently uses the webMethods integration platform to connect our third party marketsites (Ariba, CommerceOne) as well as stock-check on E-Way. In the article, Monty Sooter, CIO, and Sandy McGregor, Director of EAI, discuss our partnership, the success thus far and future plans with webMethods.
WebMethods Case Study

Corporate Express Cuts Update Time, Boosts Volume
This article takes a look at Corporate Express’ content management technology and how it has enabled us to exceed $4 million in daily online sales and support channel management efforts with private and public e-marketplaces, through the use of a product information management system from Trigo Technologies, Inc.
Ecom World, February 12, 2002

Users make application integration an IT priority
Computerworld’s February 1st issue featured Monty Sooter, Corporate Express’ CIO, in a story titled “Users make application integration an IT priority.” The article discusses how corporations tie their IT systems together with integration software and Corporate Express, Best Buy and Union Pacific are case studies for successful integrations
Computerworld, February 1, 2002

Corporate Express Covers the Bases
The subject of the article is supplier enablement and Corporate Express’ ability to reach customers through as many channels as possible – phone, fax, Internet. And now, Corporate Express is able to connect with customers through third parties and public marketplaces, and provide customers catalog-type content due in part to Trigo’s ability to pull our ERP, warehouse management systems and customer systems under one umbrella.
Line56, December 12, 2001

Now Hear This
This article discusses pick-to-voice technology and how Corporate Express easily implemented Voxware’s pick-to-voice technology in their warehouse and the great response to the system.
Operations and Fullfillment, December 2001

Catalog Backlash: The Demise of eProcurement?
Phillips, Hasbro, AEI, Texas Instruments, and Corporate Express share their experience with catalogs and eProcurement.
Cool Tools For Purchasing, December 2001

eWeek’s Fasttrack 500: The Top eBusiness Innovators
Corporate Express was listed on eWeek's FastTrack Top 500 eBusiness Innovators: Vital Statistics, in eWeek's November 12th issue. eWeek developed the list by looking at the company Web sites and the internal IT resources the companies rely on to keep eBusiness humming.
eWeek, November 12, 2001

Content Cleanup
This article explains how Corporate Express meets customers’ needs of custom eProcurement catalogs. “A few years ago when customers began asking us for eCatalogs, the task wasn’t overly burdensome,” said Aiello. “But by last year, as the number of customers doing eProcurement grew to 200, Corporate Express realized we needed help to support the rush of new buyers wanting catalogs.” McInnis added: “In March, we chose Trigo Enterprise software, which should launch this month. That system will be used not only to support buying customers’ eProcurement systems, but also to manage the product catalog appearing on Corporate Express’ main Web site scheduled for a relaunch by the middle of next year.”
eWeek, November 5, 2001

Office Supply Chain Linked
This article discusses how Corporate Express uses Trigo Technologies to provide content management for Corporate Express customer catalogs. Currently, we rely on a variety of product support systems to accommodate customer demands. With Trigo, our customized catalogs will be automated to meet the special needs of our customers as well as provide tools to synchronize and standardize data we get from our suppliers and wholesalers.
Internet Week, October 8, 2001

The Catalog Age 100
Corporate Express was ranked No. 4 for catalog sales in 2000. Catalog Age ranked the top 100 catalogs from mailers like J.C. Penney to hunting suppliers like AcuSport and gift mailers like Miles Kimball. Corporate Express was the biggest winner in terms of growth with a 193% sales increase over 1999 to more than $4.05 billion in 2000.
Catalog Age, August 1, 2001