SAN FRANCISCO, CA, December 7, 2009 – Aravo today announced a free educational webinar that will explore how global enterprises can realize the significant economic benefits of working with emerging market suppliers while simultaneously managing the inherent supply chain risks. "Managing Suppliers in Emerging Markets: Achieving 360 Degree Visibility" will feature Pierre Mitchell, Senior Director and Head of Procurement Research, The Hackett Group; Sig Lackner, Vice President, Global Services, Aravo Solutions; and Doug Lockwood, Senior Consultant, WSP Environment & Energy.

The webinar will be held this Wednesday, December 9th, at 11am PST, and will be hosted by a team of industry experts who will define the opportunities and challenges presented by large and untapped emerging markets, discuss how best to organize supplier strategies for these areas, and showcase best practices for successful supplier collaborations in emerging markets. Registration can be found here.

This webinar is the second in a three-part Aravo webinar series focused on Supply Chain Risk. The first webinar, entitled "Managing Supplier Financial Risk: Critical Changes and Best Practices for 2010," discussed strategies for managing supplier financial risk. The replay of the webinar can be seen here (short registration required). The third webinar, planned for January 27, 2010, will focus on performance, quality and compliance risk, and registration will begin in mid-December on www.aravo.com.

Over the last several years, Aravo has pioneered a new market segment focused on collaborative SIM. While traditional supply chain technologies have focused on sourcing (RFx, auctions), transactions (purchases, payments) or logistics (inventory, transportation), Aravo SIM takes an "information-centric" approach by enabling the world's largest companies to collaborate with their suppliers to transform how information is created, validated, maintained and integrated across global enterprises. Aravo SIM powers more productive, profitable business relationships and drives significant cost savings for both large enterprises and their suppliers. Aravo SIM is 100% Software-as-a-Service/Cloud-based, and includes specific business solutions in areas such as risk management, diversity, compliance, and sustainability.

About Aravo
Aravo was founded in 2000 to help simplify the complex, chaotic world of enterprise supplier information management (SIM). Aravo's flagship product, Aravo SIM, transforms enterprise supplier collaboration from tactical headache to strategic asset -- delivering cost savings, increased productivity, decreased risk, and rapid ROI. According to leading analyst firms, Aravo reduces the cost of managing supplier information by up to 72%. Aravo is based in San Francisco with offices in New York, Portland, Boston, and Ahmedabad, India. Aravo's investors include Cisco Systems, the Charles Schwab family, and senior executives from the world's leading investment banks, hedge funds and private equity firms. For more information, visit www.aravo.com.

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