Capgemini

Group Press Relations Manager
Christel Lerouge

Phone: +33 (0)1 47 54 50 76
Email: christel.lerouge@capgemini.com

IBX, Capgemini Procurement Services

Senior VP Marketing
Pontus Björnsson
Phone: +46 (8) 5030 4204
Email: pontus.bjornsson@ibx.se

Marketing and Communication Manager
Eva Svensson
Phone: +46 (8) 5030 4242
Email: eva.svensson@ibx.se

IBX in brief

As a pioneer in the field of e-purchasing, IBX delivers measurable impact to client’s bottom lines through its comprehensive Efficient Purchasing framework. IBX serves blue chip corporations globally through proven purchasing expertise, with a high value supplier network and best of breed e-sourcing and e-procurement technology. The company enables its customers to generate sustainable cost savings through better spend visibility, increased spend under management and contract compliance.

IBX was founded in 2000 and is owned by Capgemini.

IBX offices are located in Stockholm (HQ), Antwerp, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Milan, Oslo, Oxford, Chicago and Paris. www.ibxgroup.com.

icpdf IBX Services and Solutions

Press release, 2005-12-06

IBX chosen for global purchasing

IBX has signed an agreement with IKEA and will provide a global on-demand solution for sourcing and procurement and an extensive program to introduce the solution throughout the entire IKEA group.

As part of the agreement, IBX will provide a complete on-demand solution for IKEA including IBX eSourcing and IBX eProcurement, access to IBX supplier network, as well as sourcing and global implementation services. The whole project will support IKEA in generating savings in purchasing of indirect material and services globally.

- IKEA is recognized as a strong purchase intense business, and it is a fantastic affirmation of IBX capabilities that IKEA has shown such a confidence in us. Our dedication is now to support IKEA to substantially reduce the cost of purchasing of goods and services. The agreement is particularly important to IBX since it confirms the trend that large corporations are increasingly choosing on-demand solutions for their sourcing and procurement, says Pontus Björnsson, Country Manager, IBX Sweden.

IBX on-demand solutions for sourcing and procurement are applications provided as services based on state of the art standard technology from leading software providers. IBX eProcurement is based on MySAP SRM / EBP from SAP and IBX eSourcing is based on Emptoris, who recently was appointed as the number one eSourcing SW by Forrester Research.

For further information, please contact:
Peter Lageson, Marketing Director IBX, Phone: +46 703 75 51 05
Pontus Björnsson, Country Manager IBX Sweden, Phone: +46 (0)701 81 42 04