Teligistics, a telecom financial-management company based in the Houston area, announced that it launched a Web-based Telecom procurement and request-for-pricing (RFP) management application used for purchasing telecom services. David Roberts, CEO of Teligistics says, "This online telecom RFP tool was developed in response to enterprise telecom users who have expressed a pressing need for a Web-based application to create, launch and manage the telecom procurement process. Part of the dilemma faced by telecom managers, IT directors and CIOs is the ability to effectively structure a formal pricing request properly and in a timely manner and then to be able to analyze the responses in a true apples-to-apples comparison for awarding contracts. Additionally, many enterprise users do not allow sufficient time to structure pricing requests before existing term agreements expire. Delays put the enterprise user at a distinct disadvantage from a leveraging standpoint. This RFP Management Suite allows quick deployment in order to leverage the market."

Vykor, a provider of on-demand engineered parts-management solutions, released its EPM 4.5 to capture a broader spectrum of parts. EPM provides systematic tools to analytically develop engineered part-manufacturing strategies to calculate benchmark manufacture costs and map to the most capable supplier(s).

Supply chain software provider Provia Software has developed a warehouse management system (WMS) RFP scoring template to help companies evaluate providers with the most viable WMS solutions to meet their needs from among the hundreds of providers in the market today. The nonbiased RFP scoring template addresses industry-specific topics to help companies determine which providers' solution most closely matches their unique requirements.