Restaurantpro.com was founded by restaurant owners who understand firsthand the difficulties of managing the bottom line in the margin-constrained, highly fragmented foodservice business. Foodservice industry research indicates that $14.3 billion is lost each year due to inefficiencies in the supply chain. This is due, in part, to the fact that the $376 billion foodservice industry still does most of its purchasing by phoning in orders that are transcribed by hand.Restaurantpro.com plans to significantly reduce these inefficiencies with a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace that is customized for the needs of foodservice operators. Restaurantpro.com connects restaurants with their suppliers in a secure extranet online marketplace that allows them to work together more efficiently and enhance existing relationships. Many people think the restaurant business is one big party, night after night. What goes on in the "front of the house" may give that impression, but what happens in the "back of the house" can make or break the business.With an acute understanding of the time and money constraints under which restaurant operators work, the companyÕs founders established Restaurantpro.com as a service organization. Restaurantpro.comÕs fundamental ground rules to success are:1. Direct Sales Force: The restaurant business is built on relationships. We have a team of sales representatives dedicated to delivering our service to the customer and forming a long-term e-business relationship.2. Complete, Tailored Solution: The Restaurantpro.com service is customized for each user. We provide each user with a password-protected account on our secure, extranet marketplace. In that account are the restaurantÕs preferred supplier lists, pre-populated online order forms and updated negotiated pricing. All current and past purchasing data resides in one place, making it easier to monitor and control costs.3. A Free Restaurant Service: Restaurantpro.com provides a PC, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Internet access and its e-procurement service completely free of charge to targeted, full-service independent restaurants. The company also manages system installation, offers on-site user training and provides 24/7 customer and technical support Š all for free.Because we view foodservice suppliers as our partners, we connect them to our B2B marketplace at no set-up costs, including a free PC, DSL Internet access and a customized online storefront.Restaurantpro.com will give restaurant professionals the tools and time they need to perfect the business of running a restaurant. We have the management team, strategic partners and business plan to create the dominant B2B marketplace in the foodservice industry.
- Industries: restaurant supply industry, food service industry, restaurant, food
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
RewardsPlus is a benefits communication, administration and billing company providing turnkey, voluntary benefits programs. Convenience, value, and customer-friendly service are achieved using state-of-the-art payroll interface and Internet technologies. Voluntary benefits pick up where traditional company benefits fall short, including conveniences and necessities most employees must purchase independently. The RewardsPlus network pools the buying power of employees across the country, giving them group rate savings of up to 20% over independently purchased services. RewardsPlus+ unprecedented use of technology to facilitate benefit management has made it a leading voluntary benefits network, gaining national media recognition for its automated payroll deduction system as well as its variety of industry-leading providers.RewardsPlus is based in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Industries: business services,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: workflow collaboration,
- Region: World
RightFreight.com is the leading internet-based airfreight services exchange for freight forwarders, shippers and carriers. What we do:We reduce costs, accelerate logistics decision-making and improve communication among all parties in a supply chain. What we offer:The full Rightfreight.com services offering includes everything needed to manage a shipment from origin to destination: a shippers exchange, yield management exchange, request-for-proposal wizard, document center, export/import compliance check and transportation provider database.
- Industries: air freight shipping, freight handling, freight transportation, freight transportation air, freight transportation land, freight transportation ocean, freight transportation land truck, freight transportation land rail
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: request for proposal, exchange, business directory
- Region: World
Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Cargill and DuPont have signed a letter of intent to create Rooster.com, a comprehensive Web-based marketplace to include local farm retailers, cooperatives and manufacturers. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Rooster.com is designed to make it easier for farmers to do business on the Internet. It will be a two-way virtual electronic mall for the agricultural industry with three initial anchor tenants and scores of other retailers that will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Here, farmers will be able to market their crops and buy fertilizer, crop protection products, other farm supplies and equipment - all through the same businesses they work with now. The site is scheduled to be launched by May 1. A management team is being formed and will be announced soon.
- Industries: farming, agriculture, farm equipment
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
Based on the latest Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Internet technology, RoweCom makes the ordering, payment, control and management of knowledge-based products easy, fast, controllable and cost-effective. Offering access to millions of books from barnesandnoble.com and over 240,000 titles from more than 20,000 publishers, RoweCom is helping over 20,000 organizations get access to and control their knowledge resources.
- Industries: business services,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: product catalog, business directory,
- Region: World
RubberNetwork.com - an independent company - will host a global exchange, which will include Continental, Cooper, Goodyear, Michelin, Pirelli and Sumitomo Rubber. Total purchases for the tire and rubber industry represent more than $50 billion a year spent on raw materials, equipment, machinery, goods and services. The exchange will enable members to increase the efficiency of their operations and to achieve substantial savings in the cost of doing business. Each transaction will be protected by appropriate firewalls to ensure the confidentiality of each company's individual business activities.The exchange will be open to all manufacturers and suppliers within the industry and is expected to be operating before the end of the year.
- Industries: automotive, auto parts, rubber
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: exchange
- Region: World
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