"Linking distributors with suppliers was the next logical step for eSkye.com, a company that has already proven its ability to successfully link retailers and distributors electronically through the Internet, making ordering faster, easier and less expensive for everyone in the beverage supply chain," said J. Smoke Wallin, eSkye.com's founder and CEO. "After more than a year of planning and development, the introduction of eBOTS-sl expands our network to the entire beverage industry. We have adopted a truly 'Enterprise Application Integration' approach to the order process and have overcome the inefficiencies, wasted time and extra expense that have plagued the industry for a generation under the current system."
eSkye.com's eBOTS-sl not only allows EDI partners to leverage their existing infrastructure, but also enables distributors and suppliers who have been unable to participate in EDI transactions due to their technical or budgetary limitations to begin processing orders electronically. With a single integration between each distributor and supplier, eBOTS-sl is capable of managing multiple relationships with buyers and sellers over one network, simplifying the electronic exchange of information while providing a secure and cost-effective alternative to EDI. Additionally, the system provides a platform for enhanced supply chain functions such as logistics planning, automated billing and receiving, inventory management, collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment.
"Until today's announcement of eBOTS-sl, the traditional EDI solutions available to our industry, requiring individual links between each distributor and supplier, have been cost prohibitive and require ongoing support associated with the dedicated technology. eBOTS-sl now offers a cost effective solution that is available to suppliers and distributors of all sizes," said David Stringfellow, Executive Vice President of Sales for eSkye.com.
eBOTS-sl employs the same technology infrastructure eSkye.com is already providing to a growing number of both on- and off-premise retailers of beverage products. It is an intuitive, fully customizable ordering solution that frees users from the bounds of the conventional phone or faxed-based ordering process.
eSkye.com's eBOTS-sl technology will be available in early 2001.
About eSkye.com
eSkye.com ( www.eskye.com ) has created the definitive online global beverage network for the drinks vertical market. As a leading e-supply chain solutions provider for the beverage industry, eSkye.com's technologies allow manufacturers and suppliers, as well as their distributors and retailers, to share demand forecasts, inventory levels and production schedules in real-time. eSkye.com continues to develop innovative enabling technologies and solutions that promote efficiency, increase profitability and save time. The eBOTS solution and platform is a web-based technology infrastructure, seamlessly linking, end-to-end, all of the industry's tiers -- retailers, distributors, states and suppliers.
As an industry leader, the Company provides the beverage technology infrastructure for leading exchanges in the hospitality and procurement market including PurchasePro, Alliantlink, RestaurantPro, and Tibersoft Corporation, forming the world's largest and most powerful online procurement solution for businesses that sell beverages. eSkye.com has formed an alliance with IBM to provide low cost state of the art solutions to wire the beverage industry. The Company is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana with international operations based in London.