On February 16, 1999, EDS and A.T. Kearney announced a consortium of industry-leading

companies cooperating to provide supply chain management solutions to client companies.24

A.T. Kearney provides the consulting, EDS provides systems and technology, Enterprise

Solutions provides system maintenance and support, Sun Microsystems provides Javabased

web security, Paragon Management Systems provides Java-based supply chain management

solutions, and Selectica provides an Internet-selling system. The team of companies

can deliver full utilization of the Web to redefine supply chain relationships for its customers.

The solutions provided allow the groups' clients to take advantage of web-based

services to seamlessly connect with both suppliers and customers. It allows each company

in the chain to actively and easily participate, sharing the same information and application

functionality. To make the service affordable to even the smallest supplier, the team has

developed a pricing mechanism allowing them to pay on a per-transaction basis.

Required:

Diagram the value chain relationship for providing this e-commerce supplier-management service to clients