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August 04, 2005
New Business
Hewitt Associates will provide HR business process outsourcing (BPO) services to Wachovia Corporation, one of the nation’s largest financial services providers. Under the new seven-year agreement, Hewitt will provide HR BPO services, including contact center, payroll, learning and benefits outsourcing to more than 90,000 Wachovia employees. As part of the deal, Hewitt will hire approximately 165 Wachovia employees. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Whirlpool Corporation has selected Convergys as its human resource business process outsourcing provider. With annual sales of over $13 billion and nearly 50 manufacturing and technology research centers around the globe, Whirlpool markets its brands to consumers in more than 170 countries.
Computer Sciences Corporation and Telkom South Africa have been awarded a five-year, $275 million network outsourcing contract with Old Mutual, the largest financial services group in South Africa, and Nedbank, one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa. CSC estimates its share of the revenue to be approximately $125 million.
Land O’Lakes, a national farmer-owned food and agricultural cooperative with annual sales of more than $7 billion, will further modernize its supply chain using SPS Commerce’s hosted EDI services with its independent warehouses by this fall. Currently, Land O’Lakes is teaming with select proprietary and third party warehouses to transition from the existing solution to SPS Commerce’s WebForms service.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded EDS a contract to continue providing user and production support, systems maintenance and management services for the computer application system used to process Medicare Part B claims. The contract contains a one-year base period with four options years and is valued at $99 million if all options are exercised.
Posted by jbowles at August 4, 2005 10:56 AM
