Datalliance Adds Key Account Manager in Europe

CINCINNATI, OH--(Marketwired - Jun 5, 2013) -  Datalliance today announced that Sam Temara has joined Datalliance as European Key Account Manager. He will be located at Datalliance European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. In this newly established role, Mr. Temara will be responsible for business development with current and future Datalliance customers throughout Europe. 

A Belgian native, Mr. Temara brings to Datalliance over 16 years of sales, management and IT experience in European markets. He joins Datalliance from eSpheres, a Solvay spin-out and provider of cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions utilizing SAP® applications for Health, Safety, Environment (HSE) and Corporate Sustainability where he was Sales and Marketing Director. Prior to eSpheres, Mr. Temara held management, business development and consulting positions at TRASYS and Siemens Business Services. 

"We are excited to add Sam as the newest member of our growing European team," said Carl Hall, Datalliance CEO & President. "He has considerable experience with SaaS-based service offerings and has had consultative relationships with many of Europe's leading companies. He is well-qualified to help our customers build or expand their Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) strategies and deploy successful VMI programs using the Datalliance platform." 

Datalliance has been steadily growing the company's capabilities and customer base in Europe. Over the past year and a half, Datalliance has added multi-language support to its VMI platform, expanded its Customer Care group to support major European languages, and opened its European headquarters in Brussels. Datalliance VMI is in use by European manufacturers in both industrial and consumer markets to provide VMI services across 15 European countries. Globally, Datalliance has experienced a 26% growth rate per year over the past seven years and today supports over 13,000 customer sites, 17 million SKUs, and $14 billion in VMI transactions.

Overall, Datalliance is being used to manage thousands of inventory locations in 41 countries world-wide, including hundreds of locations in South America, Asia, and Australia in addition to North America and Europe. Many Datalliance customers are global leaders within their industries, including the US operations of a number of European headquartered companies such as Philips, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and SKF.

About Datalliance
Datalliance is a leading provider of collaborative commerce services, and the world's largest independent VMI service provider. Delivered via the Internet using the 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) model, Datalliance solutions make it easy for suppliers and their customers to establish sales and inventory management relationships that fully align business objectives, improve collaboration, and streamline supply chain operations. Datalliance manages billions of dollars in orders, millions of SKUs, and thousands of locations for leading Fortune 1000 companies in a number of industries. For more information about Datalliance, visit www.datalliance.com.