UNSPSC Resources
The following resources are listed as a service for UNSPSC Members and
Users. UNSPSC and GS1 US do not endorse or recommend these firms, but
provide their contact information as a service.
Firm /
Consultant
5i Solutions
Contact
Contact Information
Jclement
jclement@5isolutions.com
No.3939, 12th Main,
2nd Floor,15th Cross,
Kumaraswamy layout,
IInd Stage,
Bangalore - 560 078
Karnataka, India
consult@5isolutions.com
http://www.5isolutions.com
5i Solutions assists clients in content management, Item Categorization, Data
Standardization (Item, Attribute, Value & Measure), Data Enrichment, Data
Synchronization, Data Cleaning, Documentation Projects, Software application design,
Website design and Maintenance.
AB Data
Analyzers
Karthikeyan.A
AB Data Analyzers
No. 11/28
Chitlapakkam 2nd Main Road
Tambaram Sanatorium & Post
Chennai, India
http://abdataanalyzers.com/
AB Data Analyzers is a Data Service Provider, specifically in Classification. Classification
capabilities include classification by item, commodity, product and services based on
classification schemas and content standards like UNSPSC.
Arpos
Chris Harmsen
Banyan
Solutions
Tharyan Koshi
Arpos Pty Ltd
Advisers & Researches in Policy,
Operations & Strategy
Level 26, The Royal Exchange
56 Pitt Street (GPO Box 2531)
SYDNEY NSW 2000
Tel: +61-2-9252-8884
Mob: +61-2-9252-8885
chrish@arpos.com.au
www.arpos.com.au
ARPOS is a boutique Australian management consulting firm specialising in providing
solutions to strategic, marketing and operational challenges for companies involved in
traditional and new ways of doing business. Our achievements include working with
clients to implement UNSPSC in their operations and helping them realise significant
service and cost improvements.
Banyan Solutions
No. 6, 10th East Cross St
Gandhi Nagar, Vellore-632006,
Tamil Nadu, India
Tel: +91-416-2240959
Mob: +91-94433 43185
tharyan.koshi@banyansolutions.com
www.banyansolutions.com
Banyan specializes in Data Standardization of electronic content with an emphasis on
classification tagging to the UNSPSC for the purpose of procurement, spend analysis,
electronic catalog and line item detail.
Bharathi
Infobuilders
Pvt. Ltd.
Amarnath Gorur
21-A1, Veerasandra Industrial Area
Electronic City Post
Bangalore 560100
India
info@bharathi-info.com
www.bharathi-info.com
Bharathi Infobuilders (BI) is a content services provider. BI provides attribute-enriched,
enhanced and standardized supplier content for buy-side product catalogs and spend
analysis. BI specializes in content creation, cleansing, classification, enrichment,
standardization, integration, conversion, cross-referencing part numbers, etc. We serve
the MRO, Electronics and Automotive industries with our value-added services.
BvW Global
info@bvwglobal.com
BvW Global Pty Ltd
Australia
info@bvwglobal.com
www.bvwglobal.com
BvW Global (BvW) provides solutions for enterprise optimization. and assists clients in
easily implementing UNSPSC and/or GPC classification standards across their products
and services catalog using BvW Intelligent Classifier (which uses artificial intelligence)
to classify products and services from simple generic item descriptions.
BvW assist companies from the daily procurement activities down to spend analysis,
strategic sourcing, and contract management and compliance.
ByteManagers, Joe Walsh
Inc.
ByteManagers, Inc.
800 W. Huron St.
Ste. 4W
Chicago, IL 60622
215.836.9257
jwalsh@bytemanagers.com
www.bytemanagers.com
ByteManagers is a highly experienced provider of content definition, collection, build,
enhancement, and integration services. Our customers include Global 2000 companies
with varied product content needs. With the assistance of ByteManagers, these
companies have been able to produce and deliver their product information to market
more quickly, cost-effectively, and to a higher degree of quality. As a member of the
UNSPSC standards body, ByteManagers is uniquely qualified to address your UNSPSC
and other important product content needs.
Caarpus
Technology
Services
Private
Limited
L.Bharaniraj – Director
No.5/18, II Floor
Valluvar Salai
Ramapuram
Chennai – 600089
Tel: +91-44-2249 2057
Fax: +91-44-2249 2056
l.bharaniraj@caarpus.com
www.caarpus.com
Caarpus Technology Services provides services and solutions in Content management,
Data cleansing, Data Enrichment, Material Cataloguing, Coding Schema Classification ,
Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, EAM/ERP, Maintenance and software
solutions.
Click
Commerce,
Inc
Keith Forshew
Click Commerce, Inc.
233 N. Michigan Ave., 22nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60601
USA
Tel: 312-482-9006
Tel: 1-800-899-2641
Fax: 312-482-8557
click.sales@clickcommerce.com
www.clickcommerce.com
Click Commerce Master Data Managemet (MDM) solutions enable companies to
manage information about any type of item, including finished goods for resale, direct
materials used in manufacturing, and indirect materials used in Maintenance, Repair
and Overhaul (MRO) operations. These solutions also enable companies to create,
collect, align, and enhance data to provide one uniform version of information,
regardless of their catalog needs. Click Commerce's patented search capabilities allow
users to search aggregated information to find relevant results and have access to item
details and images. The company's MDM solutions include classification to UNSPSC and
other schemas including its custom Master Data Schema. Click Commerce provides
MDM solutions to Global 1000 companies in the aerospace and defense, commercial
aviation, consumer goods, contract repair, high-tech, telecom, petrochemical, and
transportation industries.
CNET Channel Scott A. Danish
+1.415.344.2722
Vice President, Global
Scott.danish@cnet.com
Marketing
CNET Channel supports both online catalogs and traditional sales processes with
detailed content (product images, full product names/brands, product marketing
descriptions, main and extended product specifications, related accessory links,
categorization and identification, and searchable attributes) on over 2.4 million
technology products. We provide our customers with the UNSPSC codes for the
products we carry in our IT, consumer electronics, and professional photo/video
catalogs. Multi-version support will be available in Q1-2006.
Commodity
D Steel
info@commoditycoding.co.uk
Coding
Associates
Commodity Coding Associates is a UK-based business which is focused on electronic
catalogue creation and, in particular, commodity coding. We can provide UNSPSC and
other commodity coding services on request.
.COMMUNICAT contact@pscommunicate.com contact@pscommunicate.com
E
www.pscommunicate.com
.COMMUNICATE is the result of a group of French companies formalizing their
international operational strategies. We understand a classification system must be
reliable and complete and reflect the business’ needs and structure in order to
streamline operations. Over the last few years we have worked extensively with
classifications systems for analysis and integration in accordance to the client’s
requirements. .COMMUNICATE has a team of highly skilled consultants with
international experience in order to develop solutions for clients that meet their
business needs.
Convergence Richard Turner
Convergence Data Services,LLC
Data Services rturner@convergencedata.net 91 Point Judith RD #312
Narragansett, RI 02882-3470
Tel: (203)-364-8155
info@convergencedata.net
www.convergencedata.net
CDS provides software that can load a company's data, classify items to existing (e.g.
UNSPSC) or custom classification structures, cleanses and augment the data with
standard attributes, map item data including parts to suppliers/mfgs/documents etc
and analyze item data for duplication at an attribute level. CDS specialized in handling
engineered parts with many attributes. We work with PLM, ERP, 3rd Party content
providers and search vendors.
DRK Research Dr. Kevin McCormack
DRK Research
Tel: 919-762-9322
kmccormack@drkresearch.org
DRK employs advance technology and statistical techniques to cleanse and reclassify
material master data using the global UNSPSC standards. DRK's Hilbert Engine based
classification technology used in intelligence agencies and NASA, automatically
interprets a text description and assigns the appropriate UNSPSC code. Duplicates and
errors are identified and eliminated and "thin" descriptions are enhanced using industry
standard descriptions. Due to the advance technology of the Hilbert Engine, the speed
and accuracy of this process is 10-100x any other technology. The advance statistical
approach enables accuracy levels unmatched by other approaches. Both of these lead
to reduced time and cost compared to any other solution. Customers: Suncor Energy,
PPM Energy, other medium to large companies.
Enventure
Technologies
Business Development
Enventure Technologies Inc.
Pease International Tradeport
One New Hampshire Avenue, Suite 125
Portsmouth, NH 03801
Tel: +1.603.766.4960
info@enventureonline.com
Enventure TechnologiesInc. offers custom content services, enabling customers to
strengthen their supply chain, reduce spend and improve ROI on investments into
SCM/CRM/ERP systems. Enventure offers UNSPSC based classification services, which
is the starting point towards providing customers with data that is accurate,
categorized, enriched and up to date.
As a leading content services provider, Enventure has helped more than 150
corporations, including Fortune 500 companies, efficiently and effectively manage their
data. The company has successfully delivered more than 3,000 projects, across
multiple industry verticals.
To learn more, call us on 603.766.4960 or e-mail us : info@enventureonline.com
Epica
Dennis Allsopp
dennis@epicas.com
Solutions
A provider of data content services through tailored solutions utilizing the UNSPSC and
other classification systems to enable client organizations realize true productivity gains
from their investment in Materials Management Systems.
Global Content Dave Kuketz
Works
Global Content Works
Suite 108, 501 Kings Highway East
Fairfield, CT 06825
Tel: 407-761-9000
dave@globalcontentworks.com
www.globalcontentworks.com
Global Content Works provides a broad range of state-of-the-art content value
improvement services to F100 multi-nationals and small to medium sized enterprises in
the high tech, energy, healthcare, transportation, services, retail & CPG, insurance and
financial, and manufacturing industries. Services include data cleansing, scrubbing,
categorization, classification, normalization, standardization, migration, enrichment,
sourcing, taxonomy, consulting, formatting.
Global eBusiness
Services
Limited (GO-
David Ho
david_cwho@gobusiness.com.hk
Global e-Business Services Limited (GOBusiness)
30/F, Prosperity Millennia Plaza
663 King's Road
Business)
North Point, Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2503 8192
Fax: (852) 2503 8400
www.go-business.com.hk
GO-Business is an e-business solutions provider specializing in e-Procurement, eTendering, e-Trading and e-Logistics. We also provide consultancy and implementation
services for product & service codification and classification of international standards
including UNSPSC.
Global
eProcure
Rob Schmidt
Global eProcure
67 Walnut Avenue, Suite 205
Clark, NJ 07066
Tel: 732-428-1569
Fax: 732-381-8473
robert.schmidt@globaleprocure.com
www.globaleprocure.com
Global eProcure helps clients implement sourcing and procurement best practices using
its experience and state-of-the-art technology. Their focus is to implement best
practices in Spend Management using tools and services for Automated Spend
Analysis, eSourcing, and eProcurement.
HighClassify,
Inc
John Lehman
(408) 480-2592
info@highclassify.com
www.highclassify.com
Coding and classification services for UNSPSC.
HyperionIT
Private
Limited
G.PRASANNA
Executive Director
No,2 (Old No.11), 50th Street
Ashok Nagar, Chennai - 600 083
Tel: +91 44 24891555 / 24890220
g.prasanna@hyperionit.com
Provides Material Management services for Oil & Gas Industry; has done coding and
cataloguing for several large petrochemical firms.
IHS Intermat
Solutions
Stephanie McKinney
1 713 623 4567
stephanie.mckinney@ihs.com
IHS Intermat
5333 Westheimer, Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77056
stephanie.mckinney@ihs.com
parts.ihs.com/products/intermat/solutio
ns-info.htm
IHS Intermat Solutions provides specialized classification and cataloging services, tools
and content to improve the utilization and value of our customers' MRO (Maintenance,
Repair and Operations) inventory databases. Intermat Solutions also provides highlyautomated UNSPSC classification mapping services and software to further expand our
customers’ Supply Chain Management and Procurement capabilities. IHS Intermat
Solutions customers operate in major industry verticals – such as Oil & Gas,
Petrochemical, Power & Utilities, Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Automotive and
Defense. Our software tools and standard data sets are compatible with all major
ERP/EAM systems including SAP, IBM Maximo, Oracle, JDE, AssetPoint Tabware and
DataStream.
Infomeld, Inc Sherrie Clapp
sclapp@infomeld.com
Infomeld is a provider of coding, classification and parametric extraction services for
the UNSPSC and many other classification systems.
Informatics
International
Projects
Division
K S SubbaRao, Director
Informatics India Ltd
337 Karuna Complex
Malleshwaram
Bangalore 560 003
(IIPD),
Informatics
India Ltd. IIL
India
Tel: +91-80-23464878
Fax: +91-80-23344598
kss@informindia.co.in
www.informindia.co.in
IIPD has a core competency in hierarchical classification and has 50 subject specialist
editors from 35 domains. Has experience in coding UNSPSC for products for any sector
of Industry. IIPD can provide UNSPSC commodity coding services on request.
LAPIZ
TECHNICAL
SERVICES
Suriya Narayanan - Senior
Consultant
LAPIZ TECHNICAL SERVICES
3rd Floor, Eastern Wing
S-15, Economist House
Guindy Industrial Estate
Chennai - 600032, Tamil Nadu, India
Tel: +91 44 65724735
suriya.n@lapizdigital.com
www.lapiztechnical.com
Lapiz specializes in providing data cleansing. It employs domain experts who work with
operational teams in order to arrive at right noun-modifier combination, its attributes
and the correctness of attribute values. Services included coding to UNSPC standard
and other standards, Cataloguing and Data Management, Data Preparation for CMMS
and ERP and more.
Leonex
Systems
Private
Limited
Mr. Satheesh Kumar
Chandrasekaran - Regional
Director
Leonex Systems Private Limited
No:1069/40, Munuswamy Salai
West K.K.Nagar
Chennai - 600078, India
Tel: +91 44 42616201
Fax: +91 44 24731281
satheesh@leonex.net
www.leonex.us
Leonex Systems Private Limited is a premier consulting company in the fields of
Materials Management, Maintenance Management and Software having specialization in
Procurement, Inventory Review & Optimization, Material Codification & Catalogue
Management services and Software applications.
LG CNS Global Nathan, Santosh
LG CNS Global
santosh.nathan@lgcnsglobal.co 5th Floor, Tower – B
m
Golf View Homes
Wind Tunnel Road
Bangalore – 560 017, India
Tel - USA : 001-201 535 4755
Tel - India : 91–080–4115 8274
www.lgcnsglobal.com
LG CNS Global is Content Services Provider for the MRO, Retail, Electrical & Electronics,
Automotive Industries for the worlds top Distributors & Manufacturers across USA,
Europe & ASIA-PAC.
 Content Creation
 Classification according to UNSPSC Schema or schema specified by customers
 Competitor Part Information - Cross Referencing
 Datasheet creation & Digital Imaging
 Content Maintenanc
Our clients include Farnell-In-One, Arrow Electronics, Kaman, IDEA, RS Components,
Fastenal, Rapid Electronics, and Hagemeyer.
 SEI CMMI Level - 5 Certified Company
 BS 7799 Certified for Information Security
Ocean
Dr. Donald R Sallot
Software
International,
Inc.
2654 W Horizon Ridge Pkwy.
Suite B5-271
Henderson, Nevada 89052
USA
Tel: 800-979-9566
Tel: 702-492-2534
Fax: 702-492-7462
info@oceansoftware.com
www.oceansoftware.com
We provide a Spend Analysis / Analytical Service to help corporations get accurate,
detailed views of their spend landscape on an on-going basis. Based on Ocean's
proprietary driven spend data management tools and value added services, we can
automate the bottleneck processes associated with spend analysis: multi-currency
considerations, data aggregation, normalization, cleansing and classification to Global
standards like UNSPSC. Our Spend Analysis / Analytical Service makes clean data
available to corporations for analysis using 3rd party analytical tools. With our tools
and services, corporations can consolidate and analyze millions of transaction records
quickly and build the foundation for superior sourcing decisions driven by regular spend
analysis reviews.
Open Range
Iain Howarth, Managing
+44 (0)845 330 0618
Ltd
Director
iain.howarth@open-range.com
The Get-The-Spec™ services from Open Range are the most comprehensive solutions
available to solve your web product data requirements. Based in the UK, we provide a
comprehensive product specification catalogue service which includes Product Image
Processing, Sales Feature Points, Summary and Comprehensive Technical
Specifications, Accessories linked to parent products, Animations, as well as UNSPSC
classification of products. We have been working with the UNSPSC since 1999. Current
services cover IT, Cameras, Office Products and Consumer Electronics.
PeopleForce
Dave Herman
(610) 419-0892 201
dave@peopleforce.com
Prosper
Technology
Solutions
hr@prosperts.com
Prosper Technology Solutions
A/301, Swami Samarth
Koparkhairane
Plot No. 88, Sector 14
Navi Mumbai - 400 709
Maharashtra, India
Tel: +91 22 65153193
hr@prosperts.com
www.prosperts.com
Prosper Technology Solutions is an industry solution provider in Materials, Asset and
Content Management. Prosper specializes in Data Standardization and cleansing of
electronic content with emphasis on classification tagging to the UNSPSC for the
purpose of procurement, spend analysis, electronic catalogue line item details, esourcing, tools and content to improve the utilization and value of our customers MRO
( Maintenance, Repair and Operations) Inventory databases and e-procurement for any
sector of industry. Prosper Provides Material Management Services for oil & Gas
Industry.
Prumatech
Infosystems
Private
Limites
Mr. P. N. Murty Director
No. 18, Lady Madhavan Road
Mahalingapuram, Nungambakkam
Chennai – 600034
Tamil Nadu
India
Tel # +91-44-28170412 / 28179030
Fax# +91-44-28171936
access@prumatech.com
Prumatech Infosystems Private Limited is an industry focused solution provider
delivering Asset and Content Management Solutions to Asset intensive industries
through Materials Management Services, Maintenance Management Services and GUI
driven Engineering application and is managed by a team of professionals with
extensive international experience in their respective fields of specialization.
Quadrem
Max Batinti
27 (0)11 461 7200
mbatinti@quadrem.com
Quadrem offers expertise in the classification (UNSPSC Tagging) and cleansing of
catalogues; its focus is on Maintenance, Repair and Operations materials and
equipment.
Roger Dean
Roger Dean
+44 7785 396 163
and Associates
radean@attglobal.net
(RDA)
RDA specializes in Data Standardization and cleansing of electronic content with an
emphasis on classification tagging to the UNSPSC for the purpose of procurement,
spend analysis, electronic catalogue line item detail, e-Sourcing, and e-Procurement for
any sector of Industry.
RDA supports both online catalogues and traditional sales processes with detailed
content (product images, full product names/brands, product marketing descriptions,
main and extended product specifications, and searchable attributes), RDA is a
founding member of UNSPSC and instrumental in its creation.
Southern
Content Services, Southern
516-874-5003
Offshore
Offshore Solutions
sud_sam@southernoffshore.com
Solutions
Southern Offshore Solutions is a Chennai Metro based content service provider offering
deep expertise with catalog content production services to support deployment of
catalog data into procurement applications, electronic business exchanges, print
catalogs, and e-commerce sites. This includes data conversion, cleansing, mapping,
preparation, transformation, normalization, standardization, extraction and analysis.
Established in 1999, Southern Offshore can integrate disparate data sources, enhance
data, provide missing data, perform de-dupe and spend analysis utilizing UNSPSC.
Taxonomy,
Inc.
Ted Haas
d'Armond Speers
dspeers@taxonomy-inc.com
(480) 947-6763
tedhaas@cox.net
XSB
Dr. David Warren
XSB, Inc.
Dr. David Warren
25 East Loop Road - Suite 217
Stony Brook, NY 11790
Tel: 631-444-6800
info@xsb.com
www.xsb.com
XSB's automated software solutions transform unstructured data into information that
is rich, structured, precise and timely. The XSB Ontology Directed Classifier tool (ODC)
automates the process of data classification to a target taxonomy which greatly
improves data quality across the enterprise. The ODC can classify data to any public or
proprietary taxonomy, including the UNSPSC, NAICS, and other taxonomies. In
addition, users are able to map one taxonomy to another using the ODC.
Zycus, Inc
info@zycus.com
www.zycus.com
Zycus Spend Data Management™ software enables easy adoption of global UNSPSC
standards across business processes within an enterprise. Zycus' AI based classification
technology that has the ability to automatically interpret a line item description and
assign an UNSPSC code to the same. Leading edge global companies (such as GE,
Dupont, 3M, Alcoa amongst multiple others) are turning to Zycus to leverage
technology for adoption of the same.