Caterpillar and i2 Launch Strategic e-Business Alliance
Caterpillar Creates e-marketplace Linking Suppliers and Dealers
Caterillar Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc. announced a comprehensive strategic alliance to help transform Caterpillar's supply chain, logistics, planning, and customer management business processes. Caterpillar will create an e-marketplace using the i2 TradeMatrixT platform to link Caterpillar with its supplier and dealer base, create a high velocity, optimized, built-to-order environment.
They announced the alliance at Planet 2000, San Diego, CA, the world's largest B2B e-business conference.