FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Infosys Technologies Limited (Nasdaq: INFY) today announced it has signed a contract with Georgia-Pacific LLC (Georgia-Pacific), a forest and consumer products company, to implement its Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Suite.

The project will involve deploying an Enterprise Procurement Data Warehouse that will provide standard and ad-hoc reporting, dashboard and scorecard capabilities to aid procurement professionals with a focus on contract adherence, faster time to market, and lower cost of ownership. The aim of deploying the Procurement Solution from Infosys' Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Suite is to reduce Georgia-Pacific's sourcing cycle time and leakages in procurement spend through better monitoring, compliance and governance mechanisms.

"We chose Infosys to assist in the implementation of the Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Suite because we viewed their solution as the best fit to help solve both our business and technical reporting needs," said Steve Bakalar, Vice President - IT, Georgia-Pacific.

The Procurement Solution is built on top of a core platform built with Microsoft technologies and leverages the latest in performance management, analytics, collaboration and event-based management. The solution empowers procurement professionals to manage the organization's direct and indirect spend by providing visibility to performance metrics data, enabling superior decision making capabilities, and improving associated processes.

"As a company with large strategic sourcing and procurement operations, Georgia-Pacific is looking to Infosys to provide an enterprise-level solution for spend analysis," said Sandeep Dadlani, Vice President Retail-CPG, Infosys Technologies. "The Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Suite is designed to do just that -- provide procurement officers with greater visibility into spending, improve collaboration and enhance performance."

More information can be found at Infosys' Supply Chain Visibility & Collaboration Suite website: http://www.infosys.com/supply-chain/offerings/supply-chain-visibility.asp and the Infosys-Microsoft online Supply Chain Center of Excellence: http://www.nextgenerationsupplychains.com/

About Infosys Technologies Limited

Infosys (Nasdaq: INFY) defines, designs and delivers IT-enabled business solutions that help Global 2000 companies win in a Flat World. These solutions focus on providing strategic differentiation and operational superiority to clients. With Infosys, clients are assured of a transparent business partner, world-class processes, speed of execution and the power to stretch their IT budget by leveraging the Global Delivery Model that Infosys pioneered. Infosys has over 105,000 employees in over 50 offices worldwide. Infosys is part of the NASDAQ-100 Index and The Global Dow. For more information, visit www.infosys.com.

About Georgia-Pacific

Headquartered at Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific is one of the world's leading manufacturers and marketers of building products, tissue, packaging, paper, cellulose and related chemicals. The company employs more than 45,000 people at approximately 300 locations in North America, South America and Europe. The familiar consumer tissue brands of Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP include Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft®, Brawny®, Sparkle®, Soft 'n Gentle®, Mardi Gras®, So-Dri® and Vanity Fair®. Dixie Consumer Products LLC, a Georgia-Pacific company, manufactures the Dixie® brand of tabletop products. Georgia-Pacific has long been among the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers, with brands such as Plytanium® plywood, DryPly® water repellent plywood, Ply-Bead® panels and Wood I Beam(TM) joists offered by Georgia-Pacific Wood Products LLC and DensArmor Plus® interior drywall, DensGlass® Sheathing and ToughRock® wallboard offered by Georgia-Pacific Gypsum LLC. For more information, visit www.gp.com.

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    For further information please contact:
    The Americas
    Peter McLaughlin
    Infosys Technologies Ltd, US
    Phone: +1 213 622 4949, Ext 206
    Peter_McLaughlin@infosys.com

    Australia
    Cristin Balog
    Infosys Technologies Ltd, Australia
    Phone: +61 3 9860 2277
    Cristin_Balog@infosys.com

    Asia Pacific
    Sarah Vanita Gideon
    Infosys Technologies Ltd, India
    Phone: +91 80 4156 4998
    Sarah_Gideon@infosys.com

    EMEA
    Antonia Maneta
    Infosys Technologies Ltd, UK
    Phone: +44 0 207 715 3499
    Antonia_Maneta@infosys.com

SOURCE Infosys Technologies Limited

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