Dimension Data to Present at Supply Chain Management Summit

Managing Director Michael Brown to Discuss B2B Collaboration for Global Supply Chains and Dimension Data’s Successful eProcurement Implementation

NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire/ — Dimension Data, a $4.5 billion IT solutions and services provider, today announced that Michael Brown, managing director of Global B2B and Supply Chain Solutions, will be presenting at Aberdeen Group’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) Summit, April 2-3, at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco. The annual SCM Summit provides a forum for leading-edge thinking on the key challenges that supply chain management professionals face today.

Brown will lead a breakout session titled “B2B Collaboration for Multi-Enterprise Global Supply Chains” on April 2 from 4 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. He will discuss challenges that a multi-national organization like Dimension Data faced in trying to leverage strategic sourcing and centralized procurement across a distributed set of countries, and showcase how Dimension Data has overcome these hurdles and built a successful global B2B supply chain model.

Dimension Data’s global eProcurement solution, Dimension Data Direct, enables users to create quotes for clients in one country while delivering in another country, and streamlines and automates the following global supply chain elements:

• The client’s purchase-to-pay process
• Dimension Data’s internal quote-to-cash process
• Dimension Data’s purchase-to-pay process
• The supplier/vendor’s quote-to-cash process
• The physical supply chain/fulfillment model

Brown will be among renowned supply chain executives and leaders from large, global organizations such as Coca-Cola, Intel, Bayer Healthcare and Cisco Systems, who are speaking at this year’s summit about topics related to the theme of “Gain Competitive Advantage from SCM: Harnessing Multi-Enterprise Supply Chains.”

For additional information or to register for the event, please visit http://summits.aberdeen.com/index.php/SCM.html.

About Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen Group (www.aberdeen.com) is the leading provider of fact-based research helping organizations and individuals make better business decisions. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen has earned the reputation as being the “voice that matters” when it comes to understanding the implications and results of process innovation, methodology advancements, technology deployments, and business re-engineering.

About Dimension Data

Dimension Data (LSE: DDT), a specialist IT services and solutions provider, helps clients plan, build, support and manage their network and IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its expertise in networking, security, operating environments, storage and contact center technologies and its unique skills in consulting, integration and managed services to create customized client services. For more information: Call 866-DIDATA-US or visit www.dimensiondata.com/na.

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