SAS® Supplier Relationship Management solution garners top honors for analytic applications

CARY, N.C. (June 3, 2003) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, today announced that SAS and Bayer CropScience in the United States have been honored with the DM Review World Class Solution award for packaged analytic applications.

SAS and customer Bayer CropScience were selected by industry experts from a field of five finalists for the award which originated in 1996. According to Ron Powell, publisher and editorial director of DM Review, "We’re pleased to present Bayer CropScience and SAS with our World Class Solution award. Bayer CropScience has demonstrated true business value with their implementation of an industry-leading, analytics-driven solution."

Awards were given to both SAS and Bayer CropScience for its implementation of SAS® Supplier Relationship Management. By using this application, procurement staff and company executives have a complete picture of their spending, supplier behavior and contract compliance, enabling decision makers to match business objectives with supplier performance, identify areas of cost consolidation and rank suppliers based on their importance to the organization.

"By combining SAS SRM with other business programs, we’ve saved $10-15 million dollars," said Burgess Perry, manager of North America supply chain strategy at Bayer CropScience. "We’re excited that our work has been recognized as industry-leading, and we hope to continue to create innovative, IT-based solutions for our business goals."

"We believe we offer industry-leading solutions to our customers’ business needs," said Christine Kelly, director of SRM strategy, SAS. "By being awarded the DM Review World Class Solution award, Bayer CropScience is yet another example of how SAS provides top-notch business intelligence and analytics. Kudos to Bayer CropScience and all those involved with the implementation of this successful supplier relationship management solution."

About SAS® Supplier Relationship Management

Spend management and analysis are significant challenges for organizations. Because procurement data is often spread across disparate purchasing, financial, enterprise resource planning and other systems, it is difficult for companies to understand what they are buying and from whom. Analytic SRM from SAS provides this essential procurement intelligence. Based on the company’s industry-leading data access capabilities, SAS SRM delivers this information, providing companies with a single view of enterprisewide spend. And through its advanced analytics, organizations can identify cost-savings opportunities. For more information, see http://www.sas.com/solutions/srm/index.html.

About SAS

SAS is the market leader in providing a new generation of business intelligence software and services that create true enterprise intelligence. SAS solutions are used at more than 40,000 sites -- including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 -- to develop more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers; to enable better, more accurate and informed decisions; and to drive organizations forward. SAS is the only vendor that completely integrates leading data warehousing, analytics and traditional BI applications to create intelligence from massive amounts of data. For more than 25 years, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know^®.

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