Hubwoo Announces a Ten Year Contract With the Groupement de Cooperation Sanitaire Uni.H.A

PARIS, Feb. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hubwoo (Euronext: HBW.NX), a leading global provider of Cloud Procurement solutions powered by SAP® software, today announced the signature of a ten year contract involving 54 university hospitals of France.

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At the end of a public tender managed by Uni.H.A, Hubwoo has been chosen from among 4 competitors as the most complete, most flexible and best solution fit for this group of hospitals. The contract covers the full source-to-pay Hubwoo Procurement suite delivered via the Cloud.

Solution scope

• Hubwoo eSource, based on SAP® Sourcing, via the Cloud
• Hubwoo eContract, based on SAP® CLM, via the Cloud
• Hubwoo eBuy, based on SAP® SRM, via the Cloud
• Hubwoo eContent, for catalog management and consumer-like search across all approved goods, services, and contracts
• The Business Network, Hubwoo's supplier network to electronically enable source-to-pay collaboration with a global supplier base via a single connection

Uni.H.A is composed of 54 centers and other associated hospitals across France, of which 14 are already Hubwoo eProcurement clients. These 14 hospitals will be migrated off the Achatpro solution onto the full source-to-pay Hubwoo Cloud Procurement suite powered by SAP® software, and the Groupement plans to extend the solution to all other centers in the coming months and years. Uni.H.A's objectives are to reduce the cost of goods and services, increase the productivity and efficiency of their source-to-pay process, and support a decentralized purchasing process for hospitals of all sizes.

Gregory Mark, Hubwoo CEO, commented: "Hubwoo is pleased to extend and expand our partnership with Groupement Uni.H.A. We look forward to contributing our experiences gained through working with other best practice procurement organizations to the specific and complex procurement activity throughout the hospitals in France.  We thank the Groupement for their fidelity, and look to extend our relationship to the rest of the group."

Pierre-Jean Domenges, Directeur des Achats du CHU de Montpellier, and coordinator of the Dematerialisation of Purchasing Process, branch, comments "The new contract signed with Hubwoo is very important for us. I believe that in terms of e-procurement and purchasing information systems we are leaving a period of limited usage and practice, in a project carried by few, and are moving into larger scale. This solution will be extended to many other hospital centers in coordination with the logistics organisation, in order to achieve productivity gains. We count on Hubwoo to assist us in this process and support us reaching our goals."  

About Uni.H.A

Uni.H.A is the procurement network for 54 French public hospitals. Created in 2005, this "Groupement de Cooperation Sanitaire" developed very quickly around a common goal: develop purchasing performance and implement best practices. In 2011, Uni.H.A made purchases for EUR 1.52 billion, and generated EUR 141 million savings. Supported by the French Ministry of Health, the action is part of global plans for cost control in public health system. The optimization of purchasing of these 54 hospitals, representing more than EUR 7 billion spend per year, is a direct contribution to the will to offer citizens the best treatment and service available, and ensure equal access to health for all.  

About Hubwoo (www.hubwoo.com)

Hubwoo is the world's leading provider of on-demand procurement solutions for the SAP community.  The Company manages a Business Network with over 200,000 active suppliers and over 150 major international corporations as buyer customers of which 50+ are in the Global 1000.  Significant customers include Honeywell, Shell, Evonik, EDF, Nokia, Monsanto, Michelin, Henkel, Statoil, The Hershey Company, CONSOL Energy, EcoPetrol, Carl Zeiss, Burton's Foods, and The Dow Chemical Company. 

Hubwoo has major operations in France, multiple U.S. centers, Germany, the U.K., Philippines, Belgium, and Eastern Europe.

Listed in Compartment C on the Euronext Paris Eurolist.

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