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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Utilities Industry Benchmarking Metric Report 2011

(TEMPE, Arizona) August 2, 2011— The CAPS Research Utilities Industry Benchmarking Metric Report updated in May 2011 includes key supply management performance measures that focus on organizational structure, and fully burdened salary rates by area of operation and function. Other key metrics include managed spend, cost savings reported, and numbers of suppliers. Although survey data shows that 32 percent of the participants reported their total numbers of suppliers is increasing, it is important to note that more than one-half (53 percent) of the participants reported they are increasing their numbers of diversity-owned suppliers. New to the 2011 report are metrics that take a detailed look at inventory turn rates with breakouts for material that is specific to electric transmission, distribution, and generation. This year's report also looks at the average dollar value of procurement transactions that were manually released vs. automated.

The CAPS Research Utilities Industry Benchmarking Metric Report 2011 is available on the CAPS Research public website www.capsresearch.org. First time visitors will be prompted to register to access the benchmarking reports. For more information about the Utilities Industry report, or other benchmarking reports, contact CAPS Research at research@capsresearch.org.

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Celebrating our 25th Anniversary, CAPS Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 to provide leading research to our strategic-minded corporate sponsors and to the public. Our mission is to work in partnership with a global network of executives and academics for the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. CAPS Research is jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, the Institute for Supply Management™, and Global 1000/Fortune 500-size organizations.

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