London - 15 September 2008 - Gresham Computing and Quadrem International Limited have anounced a partnership to offer banks a suite of white-labeled solutions for ...

Las Vegas – 25 August 2008 – Quadrem International, a leading provider of supply management solutions, will present a two-hour-long seminar at MINExpo® 2008 that will focus on the importance of innovation and risk management to drive growth and improve productivity within the mining industry. The sessions will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday, September 22, 2008. Reservations are required and may be requested online at www.quadrem.com/minexpo/mines under the Educational Opportunities tab.

Amsterdam – August 18, 2008 – Quadrem today announced it has signed a global business process outsourcing (BPO) agreement with SAP AG in order to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of implementing and operating integrated electronic sourcing, procurement, invoicing, and contract management processes. In addition, Quadrem’s BPO services have qualified as “Powered by SAP”.

Dallas – 7 August 2008 – Quadrem Professional Services is offering companies in the Mining and Metals industries a new on-site, two-and-a-half-day class, “Strategic Sourcing: Seven Steps to Sourcing Success.” This workshop helps procurement and sourcing teams identify qualified suppliers, optimally manage RFP events, and negotiate effective contracts.

Dallas and Johannesburg – 7 August 2008 – Anglo Base Metals launched its full e-Procurement functionality at a formal event on 1 August 2008, in partnership with Quadrem Africa, a subsidiary of Quadrem International Ltd, a supply chain solutions company with one of the world’s largest electronically connected supplier networks for private and public sectors.

Amsterdam and Dallas – 30 July 2008 – Today Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine recognizes Quadrem International as a leader in supply chain innovation, listing the Company in the seventh-annual “Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100”. Recipients are featured in the cover story of the June/July 2008 issue, as well as online at www.SDCExec.com/SDCE100.

Crossing the Digital Divide
Multinationals are leveraging Internet technology to build bridges to suppliers in developing economies
By Charles Jackson

For years, large multinational corporations have adopted an effective strategy of offshoring key operations to countries with advantageous labor environments to remain competitive in international markets. In doing this, many of these companies have been forced to "surrender" the world-class supply chain practices they've implemented, or aspire to implement, throughout the rest of their enterprises.

These large multinational companies have gained access to the developing world's labor pool and successfully transitioned and enlarged their supply chain community without sacrificing quality, surety of supply or customer loyalty. But there has been an unintended consequence. They have created a digital divide.

Deon Mocke, Quadrem Africa's regional vice-president, says global standards made sense in an electronic marketplace.
"In an e-marketplace we are in a unique position to bring economies of scale through coding and item description for spend analysis and procurement.  For example, we can apply global standards in coding regimes for catalogues."

Dallas and Amsterdam – 23 April 2008 – Gartner, Inc. has positioned Quadrem International in the Challengers Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Sourcing Application Suites, 2008.

According to the report by Gartner Analyst Debbie Wilson, "These vendors (Challengers) have phenomenal references because they are attentive to their customers and deliver solid products that work. ….the sourcing applications of these vendors are more likely to be adopted as divisional or regional solutions than others, often because of lower prices compared with the competition. Challengers lack the portfolio breadth of vendors in the Leaders and Visionaries quadrants, often following what their customers request to create their road maps."