Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Selects PeopleSoft /Commerce One eProcurement Solution Submitted by: Metia LTD (formally Write Image Ltd) Wednesday, 1 September 1999 Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Expects Dramatic Savings From Electronic Procurement NEW ORLEANS, PeopleSoft 1999 Conference Americas - Sept. 1, 1999 - PeopleSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ; PSFT) and Commerce One, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMRC) a leading provider of e-commerce solutions, today announced that Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers Inc., a Whitman Corporation, has selected the PeopleSoft eProcurement solution and Commerce One BuySite 5.0 to streamline the purchasing of goods and services. As a result, Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers expects to realise dramatic improvements in its procurement process, including reductions in the cost of materials and services, shorter transaction and fulfillment cycles, lower administrative costs, and improved control over off-contract purchases. 'We expect the eProcurement solution to provide us with a competitive advantage by driving costs out of our supply chain,' said Bob Bramski, vice president of information technology at Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers. 'This project has an expected ROI that exceeds that of any other current IT project.' The PeopleSoft eProcurement solution includes a procurement application that extends authorised purchasing capabilities to all employees and connects them to Commerce One MarketSite.net, an open business-to-business marketplace portal providing comprehensive electronic commerce services and real-time access to a large community of suppliers. The system will standardise all purchasing, eliminating off-contract buying, and will leverage Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers’ buying power for optimised supplier discounts. 'We are very excited about Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers’ decision to purchase the PeopleSoft eProcurement solution,' said Phil Wilmington, senior vice president North American operations, PeopleSoft. 'This is one of the many joint PeopleSoft/Commerce One customers who will be able to leverage their existing investment in Peoplesoft and take advantage of the tight integration between PeopleSoft eProcurement and the PeopleSoft eBusiness Backbone.' 'Commerce One’s position as a leading provider of e-commerce solutions is further strengthened by our joint solution with PeopleSoft,' said Mark Biestman, vice president of worldwide sales for Commerce One. 'The selection by Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers validates our vision and positions us to further extend our current success in the electronic commerce market.' Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers is an anchor bottler in the Pepsi system. It represents 17% of Pepsi-Cola Company's domestic business. It has operations primarily in the Midwestern states of the U.S. and Eastern Europe. Sales for the company total $2.5 billion. Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers will begin implementation immediately, and plans to roll out the solution to its employee population later this year. Page 1 About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft (NASDAQ: PSFT) is a world leader in enterprise application software. PeopleSoft provides eBusiness and analytic applications for human resource management, financials, distribution, manufacturing, and supply chain, along with a range of industry-specific solutions. For more than 3,000 customers, PeopleSoft applications offer greater flexibility, rapid implementation, scalability across multiple databases and operating systems, and lower cost of ownership. Customers include some of the largest multi-national organisations in the world, as well as small and medium-size businesses. All PeopleSoft software products are backed by PeopleSoft Customer Service Advantage, a comprehensive consulting, education, and technical support program. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, PeopleSoft (www.peoplesoft.com) employs more than 6,000 people and had 1998 revenues of $1.3 billion. About Commerce One Commerce One, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMRC) is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions that dynamically link buying and supplying organisations into real-time trading communities. The Commerce Chain Solution by Commerce One, comprising Commerce One BuySite and Commerce One MarketSite, enables companies to significantly reduce operational costs and increase efficiency by automating the entire indirect goods and services supply chain. As a result, enterprise organisations are able to realise a strategic competitive advantage as well as a rapid return on investment. Commerce One is located in Walnut Creek, Calif., and can be reached by phone at (800) 308-3838 or (925) 941-6000 or via the Internet at < http://www.commerceone.com/> or <http://www.marketsite.net/>. PeopleSoft, the PeopleSoft logo, PeopleTools, PS/nVision, PeopleCode, PeopleBooks, and Red Pepper are registered trademarks, PeopleTalk and "We work in your world." are trademarks of PeopleSoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 1999 PeopleSoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Commerce One, Commerce Chain, BuySite, BuySite Enterprise Edition, BuySite Hosted Edition and MarketSite are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Commerce One. Other product and company names mentioned herein might be the trademarks of their respective owners. # # # Contacts: Jeanette Valentine PeopleSoft, Inc. 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