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Top 10 ERP Supply Chain
Management Vendors – 2009
Profles of the Leading ERP Vendors
Find the best supply chain management software
for your company.
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About Supply Chain Management Software
An effcient and agile supply chain is critical to success. Companies must be able to
quickly respond to the rapidly changing needs of customers, while keeping the cost
of goods produced down to increase proft margins and ensure maximum proftability.
Supply chain management (SCM) software can help businesses achieve this by
enabling them to better predict demand trends, negotiate the best possible deals with
suppliers, optimize inventory levels, and better coordinate distribution channels.
The need for SCM solutions is so great that the market continues to grow at a rapid
pace. The worldwide market for supply chain management (SCM) software topped
an estimated $6 billion in 2006, and is expected to reach or exceed $8 billion by 2010,
according to the most current estimates from AMR Research
What is Supply Chain Management?
SCM is a combination of science and software that encompasses all operations within
the supply chain, including the sourcing, acquisition, and storage of raw materials; the
scheduling and management of work-in process; and the warehousing and distribution
of fnished products. With SCM solutions, businesses can streamline and automate the
planning, execution, and control of these key activities.
Additionally, since there are often many third-parties involved throughout the end-to-
end supply chain, SCM software is designed to enhance communication, collaboration,
and coordination with vendors and suppliers, transportation and shipping companies,
intermediaries, and other partners by enabling faster bi-directional information sharing.
AMR’s research found that the typical U.S. manufacturer is managing on average more
than 30 contract relationships. Supply chain management solutions allow enterprises to
handle that complexity while still responding to increasingly demanding customers.
Key Benefts for Your Company
With a supply chain management solution in place, a business can:
More effectively manage its entire network by overseeing all activities across all
suppliers, production plants, and storage and distribution facilities.
Streamline and centralize their distribution strategy, to eliminate the logistical errors
and lack of coordination that can lead to delays.
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About Supply Chain Management Software
Increase visibility and enhance collaboration across the entire supply chain by
sharing valuable information such as demand trend reports, forecasts, inventory
levels, and transportation plans with suppliers and other partners.
Minimize storage costs and improve cash fow by better managing inventory levels.
Improve logistics tracking, to correct break-downs, ineffciencies, or problems in the
supply chain before they become unmanageable.
A recent benchmarking study by AMR Research demonstrates that companies with
better demand forecasting accuracy (something that can be easily achieved with SCM
software), can reduce unneeded inventory by as much as 15%, improve perfect order
ratings, and shorten cash-to-cash cycles by 35%.
Does My Company Need Supply Chain Management?
Supply chains are becoming more and more complex, and as a result, companies
are fnding them increasingly challenging to manage. Any manufacturer with a multi-
faceted supply chain can realize dramatic benefts from SCM software, which facilitates
smoother, more effcient, and more timely execution of supply chain activities by
connecting all vendors and other partners into one cohesive, cooperative network.
But, SCM isn’t just for factories and production plants anymore. Retailers across the
globe are also putting SCM applications to good use, boosting supply chain effciency
and gaining greater visibility into their distribution networks and inventory levels
across stores and outlets. Additionally, many types of service providers today maintain
sophisticated delivery channels that include numerous partners. Businesses like these
can also achieve signifcant return on investment from the use of SCM software.
Common Supply Chain Management Features
SCM solutions offer a comprehensive suite of modules and features to support end-to-
end supply chain processes, including:
Inventory management to ensure optimum stock levels of components for production
plants, fnished goods for customers, and spare parts for feld service technicians (if
applicable), while minimizing related storage costs.
Order management including automated order entry, dynamic supplier scheduling,
and pricing and product confguration to accelerate the order-to-delivery cycle.
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About Supply Chain Management Software
Procurement to streamline all sourcing, purchasing, and payables across the entire
supplier network.
Logistics to enhance the way warehouses are managed and transportation channels
are coordinated, so on-time delivery performance can be dramatically improved
Supply chain planning to improve all related operations by enabling accurate demand
forecasting, improving order promising, and eliminating manufacturing over-runs.
Return management to accelerate the inspection and handling of defected goods,
and automate the processing of claims with suppliers and insurance companies.
Incentive management to help companies better manage vendor negotiations,
discounts, incentive plans, and commissions.
Some SCM offerings on the market today also include capabilities for contract
management, product lifecycle management, and asset management.
What to Look for When Choosing a Supply Chain Management Solution
Because truly effective supply chain management requires rapid, unhindered
information sharing both inside and outside a company, integration is the most important
feature of any SCM software package. Choose a solution with an open data model, so
data can be dynamically shared with other back-end systems across the business, as
well as with the systems of suppliers, manufacturers, and customers across multiple
sites and locations.
Additionally, there are many emerging technologies that will have a signifcant impact on
supply chain management in the near futures. These advanced solutions, such as, radio
frequency identifcation (RFID), are poised to transform the way supply chains across
the globe are managed. Ask each vendor what their plans are for incorporating these
technologies into their solutions as their use becomes more prevalent.
Top Supply Chain Management Software Vendors
You have many options when choosing a supply chain management software vendor. To
make it a bit easier, we’ve featured some of the leading ERP supply chain management
solutions in this paper. Review these vendors, and you’ll be well on the way to fnding
the right supply chain management software for your business.
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www.consona.com | [email protected] | 877-549-2149
HIGHLIGHTS
Software for general, custom and project-based manufacturing, and industry-
specifc products and expertise for metals and printed circuit boards.
Satisfying customers through customer-focus, commitment, and professionalism.
ERP, BI, CRM, APS, MES and confguration from one supplier.
Active product support and enhancement deliver the capabilities and technologies
that customers want and need in their specifc industries.
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Indianapolis, IN
OWNERSHIP:
Private
FOUNDED:
Individual products: 1980s, 1990s
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
All Flex, Inc. (Cimnet Systems); Andersen Power Products (Intuitive); Advanced Scientifcs,
Inc (Made2Manage); ATI Industrial Automation (Intuitive); B&K Corporation (Encompix);
Coretec, Inc. (Cimnet Systems);Haynes Wire Company (AXIS); Johnstown Wire
Technologies (AXIS); Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc. (Encompix); Smeal Fire Aparatus Co.
(Made2Manage)
supplY Chain solutions:
Intuitive ERP
Made2Manage ERP
Encompix ERP
AXIS AXIOM ERP
Cimnet Systems ERP and
Engineering
Confguration Solutions
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Consona Products
With comprehensive functionality and top-notch support, Consona products support the
needs of a wide range of manufacturing companies.
Intuitive offers rich functionality for a broad range of manufacturing environments,
including electronics, medical devices, aviation and others, and makes
implementation easy for small to midsized companies.
Made2Manage provides full ERP capabilities for custom manufacturers centered on
a “casual” bill-of-material for making complex products, while continuing with design
and engineering activity.
Encompix goes beyond standard ERP to offer project scheduling and management
for engineer-to-order projects that involve complex manufacturing and close tracking
of projects, costs and schedules.
AXIS is the premiere solution for manufacturers of metals, wire and cable, as well as
metals service centers.
Cimnet Systems offers comprehensive support for printed circuit board engineering
and fabrication, including design, fabrication, and certifcation. Professional services
and outsourced engineering services are also available.
Confguration solutions’ rules-based confgurator integrates with Consona’s ERP
offerings and others.
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About Consona
Consona software and services are matched closely with specifc customer needs,
incorporating deep industry knowledge and experience. Plus, they are continually
enhanced to meet evolving customer requests and suggestions. Notable for ease-of-
use, fast navigation, tailored views and tight security, Consona applications deliver the
functionality without the fuss – solid applications that make users’ jobs easier, not more
cumbersome.
Consona software products are designed to bring the entire company together by
offering broad application coverage that allows all departments to use the system
effectively, including management, sales, engineering, purchasing, operations,
manufacturing, quality, customer service, fnance, accounting, and human resources.
Backed by an experienced management team and deep fnancial resources, Consona
combines an aggressive acquisition program, strong balance sheet, solid customer
relationships, and high-ft solutions into a value proposition unmatched by other vendors.
Consona Key Strengths
By integrating data across the enterprise, Consona’s family of ERP solutions help
manufacturers see all areas of their business more clearly—from the top foor to the
plant foor.
Manufacturing applications provide insight into production, inventory, scheduling,
and costs, making it easy to pinpoint problems before they happen and identify
opportunities for performance improvements and cost savings.
Integrated customer service, supplier management, planning, accounting, engineering,
e-commerce and confguration provide the broadest range of coverage in the industry.
Industry-specifc solutions deliver unmatched capabilities tailored to the exact needs of
specifc users, based on longstanding experience and knowledge in metals, wire and
cable, printed circuit board, complex engineering-driven, project-based, and small and
midsize-company manufacturing segments.

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About Consona
Consona applications are designed to support businesses that operate locally
and globally. With multi-language and multi-currency capabilities built-in, Consona
customers can deal easily with corporate parents and siblings, customers and
suppliers, wherever they might be.
Consona ERP Module Capabilities
Consona enterprise systems integrate a broad array of functionality across the
enterprise, including:
Business Intelligence
Planning and Scheduling
Engineering
Product Confguration
Estimating and Quoting
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Inventory, Production Control, Manufacturing
Procurement, Supplier Management
Quality
Costing, Accounting and Finance
E-commerce
Human Resources, Time-and-Attendance, Payroll
Consona Technology
Manufacturers want to focus on building their business and satisfying their customers,
not running IT operations. Consona insulates manufacturers from technology worries by
making use of the latest proven technologies to support evolving needs and emerging
innovations. Microsoft technology forms the backbone of Consona’s applications with
wide use of the latest service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles to provide fexibility,
adaptability, connectivity, and ease-of-use.

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About Consona
Consona Professional Services
Consona strives to achieve the highest level of customer intimacy. We provide services
that focus on our customers’ needs, and then take responsibility for the ongoing results.
Consona does not move on after implementation. Instead, we remain actively aligned
with our customers’ business through ongoing communication and collaboration.
Our software solutions are each augmented with a broad range of both traditional and
non-traditional services delivered by industry, product and process experts.
Education: Whether online or in a classroom, live or pre-recorded, customers have
access to educational resources that assist in training employees on their software
solution.
Consulting: Technology experts in your industry are available to help your company
achieve maximum business process improvements and effciencies.
Implementation: Consona’s unique philosophy for implementation ensures that you
have the people, tools, and resources you need to implement your software solution
and begin achieving return on your IT investment.
Support: Ongoing support of your Consona solution is available online, via our award-
winning Expert.com support websites, with live support technicians, and through your
customer account manager.
Other services, such as customizations and engineering, are unique to each product
that Consona offers. More information on the services available for each Consona
solution can be found at Consona.com.
Consona ERP - Manufacturing Solutions for Today
Consona is ready to provide the information management solutions and support you
need to keep your business lean, productive, and ahead of the competition in today’s
rapidly changing market environment. Give Consona a call today to learn more.

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www.epicor.com | [email protected] | 1-800-999-6995
HIGHLIGHTS
Offers comprehensive end-to-end ERP, CRM, SCM, and PSA solutions for
mid-market companies.
Innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Flexible and scalable software is used by more than 20,000 customers in over
140 countries.
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Irvine, California
OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ:EPIC)
FOUNDED:
1984, California
CUSTOMER FOCUS:
Epicor’s ERP solutions are helping midmarket organizations and divisions and
subsidiaries of the Global 1000 maximize their most important resources for proftable
growth, and are available for a number of industry sectors including manufacturing,
distribution, services, hospitality and retail.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Aspen Square Management, Barry-Wehmiller Design Group Professional & Embedded
Services, ClinPhone Pharmaceutical, INCODE, Bertuccis Corp Hospitality, Elegant
Hotels, The Anderson-Tully Company, Chicago White Sox, TruServ Corporation,
Visioneer, Inc.

supplY Chain solutions:
Epicor SCM
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About Epicor
Epicor is a global leader dedicated to providing integrated enterprise resource planning
(ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and
professional service automation (PSA) software solutions to midmarket companies and
divisions of the Global 1000.
Founded in 1984, Epicor serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries,
providing solutions in over 30 languages. Employing innovative service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and Web services technology, Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-
specifc solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services that
enable companies to drive increased effciency, improve performance and build
competitive advantage. Epicor solutions provide the scalability and fexibility to meet
today’s business challenges, while empowering enterprises for even greater success
tomorrow. Epicor offers a comprehensive range of services with its solutions, providing a
single point of accountability to promote rapid return on investment and low total cost of
ownership.
Epicor provides a solution that enables the manufacturing process, from planning and
procurement to job costing, scheduling, production, fnancials and more. The company’s
solution goes beyond traditional ERP, encompassing customer relationship management,
business intelligence and e-commerce. Most important, Epicor fnancial management
solutions are designed to automate and streamline fnancial processes with tools and
controls to support complex legislative requirements and create value through timely
fnancial monitoring.
Widely recognized with numerous awards and honors for its innovative software
products, Epicor’s most recent accolade came when Accounting Today included the
company’s ERP Financial solution suite in its Top 100 Products for 2008.
Epicor Key Strengths
Epicor offers an extensive range of SCM software as part of its comprehensive, end-
to-end ERP solutions. Based on an industry leading service oriented architecture
(SOA), Epicor SCM is complemented by an array of enterprise capabilities, including
customer relationship management (CRM), supplier relationship management (SRM),
and supply chain execution (SCE).
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For distributors that produce or assemble their items, Epicor SCM goes beyond
traditional kitting functionality by offering comprehensive production management.
Epicor solutions are designed to simultaneously handle make-to-order, make-to-stock
and engineer-to-order processing, giving customers the fexibility to review and update
plans as demand changes.
Whether a company needs to track a few transactions using barcodes and RFID tags
or needs to manage a set of warehouses globally, Epicor SCM can help it achieve
its goals, including automated route scheduling systems that integrate GPS, digital
mapping data, mileage, and driving directions to support a customer’s distribution
needs worldwide.
ERP systems automate and optimize business operations by integrating all or the
majority of the data and processes of an organization into a single unifed solution in
order to maximize proftable growth. Epicor ERP delivers exactly that – a single end-
to-end software solution for business.
Epicor remains a global leader dedicated to providing business software solutions to
companies around the globe. With comprehensive solutions, service and support, the
company helps more than 20,000 of the world’s best companies run their business
more effciently and effectively.
Epicor Technology
Epicor hosting services provide the frst step towards the end-to-end management of the
mission-critical IT environment so that companies can focus on strategic growth. Epicor
managed services offers a unique value-add to Epicor customers, providing total peace
of mind by ensuring that its customer’s business systems and processes stay up and
running and operating at peak levels at all times.
Epicor Supply Chain Management Solutions Highlights
Epicor SCM
For distributors that produce or assemble their items, Epicor SCM goes beyond
traditional kitting functionality by offering comprehensive production management.
Epicor solutions are designed to simultaneously handle make-to-order, make-to-stock
and engineer-to-order processing, giving customers the fexibility to review and update
plans as demand changes.
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As an integral part of the Epicor SCM solution suite, the Total Warehouse
Management System delivers inventory control, fnite bin and package defnitions,
task and load management and inter-active, real-time management of activities and
consumption.
Epicor Procurement software streamlines the entire purchasing process, delivering
the convenience and effciency of employee self-service, automated workfow for
accelerating approvals, seamless integration with back offce applications, and total
control of catalog management and policy enforcement.
The Supplier Relationship Management component of the Epicor SCM solution
delivers reach, speed, and control — all in one solution. Customers get better control
over who buys what and when with less work on everyone’s part.
Epicor Supply Chain Management Modules
Epicor SCM
Production Management System
Warehouse Management System (WMS)
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
Procurement Management
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HIGHLIGHTS
95% customer retention rate.
Young company, with a long history. Tenth largest software company in the world.
Solution set is built on the Infor Open SOA (service-oriented architecture).
Serves mid-market companies.
Infor Supply Chain Management is a global solution with implementations at over
1,600 customer sites in 40 countries.
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Alpharetta, Georgia
OWNERSHIP:
Private
FOUNDED:
2002, Georgia
CUSTOMER FOCUS:
Infor’s customer base is comprised of mid-market and larger enterprises predominately
in the aerospace, chemical, automotive, high-tech, metal and plastic fabrication, and
industrial equipment sectors.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Hallmark Cards, Hankyu Cargo, Hitachi, American Airlines, Sypris Electronics, Grady
Memorial Hospital, Hartford Hospital, Rodgers Instruments, LLC, City of San Jose,
London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority.
supplY Chain solutions:
Infor SCM
Infor SRM
Infor SRM Supply Web
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About Infor
Infor is one of the world’s largest providers of business software, with approximately
$2.1 billion in revenue, and the 10th largest software company in the world. A company
unparalleled in application breadth, market experience, open technology and global
reach, Infor has 9,200+ employees, direct offces and implementation and support
capabilities in 100 countries, and over 70,000 customers worldwide.
The thought leaders at Infor understand that their customers want to reduce the number
of vendors they work with and Infor strives to continue as their trusted “vendor of choice.”
Infor has a consistent 95% customer retention rate — one of the highest in the industry
— and 72% of its license revenues are generated by its current customers. Additionally,
over 1,000 new customers chose Infor last year for its unparalleled application breadth,
open technology, and global reach. The company is committed to continuing its growth
by broadening its best-in-class focus, and by providing the most innovative solutions and
services globally.
Customers can expect Infor to continue adding solutions based on market need and
customer demand. Infor is a unique software company — four years old with more than
thirty years experience. It has the stability, the agility, and the resources to meet the
business demands of a rapidly changing world.
Infor Key Strengths
Backed by domain experts who understand the supplier collaboration requirements of
manufacturers, Infor SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) enables rapid demand
fulfllment and performance evaluation by presenting a single face to suppliers based
on information combined from disparate enterprise resource planning systems.
Infor SRM creates a real-time supplier collaboration environment. This advanced
electronic data interchange (EDI) and web-enabled solution delivers faster, more
accurate insight into an organization’s supply chain.
The company’s solution suite complements a customer’s ERP software system
with electronic communication of demand to all suppliers and helps deploy lean
replenishment methods with its electronic Kanban and supplier-managed inventory
capabilities. Businesses run more effcient supply operations, reduce inventory levels,
increase order accuracy, and gain the fexibility to respond immediately to changes in
customer demand.
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Infor Technology
Infor’s enterprise SaaS platform is anchored on Infor’s “enrich, extend, and evolve”
product strategy and Infor Open SOA (service-oriented architecture).
Infor Supply Chain Management Solutions
Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management)
Infor SCM’s supply chain logistics and inventory management software solutions help
companies reduce supply chain operational costs for increased proftability, improve
customer service to enhance competitiveness, and manage growth and expansion to
improve revenues and market share.
Infor Supply Chain Management is a global solution with implementations at over
1,600 customer sites in 40 countries
Infor SCM delivers a smart solution suite that comprises Strategic Network Design,
Demand Planning, Distribution Planning, Manufacturing Planning, .Production
Scheduling, Transportation and Logistics Planning, Warehouse Management, and
Event Management.
RFID—Infor SCM provides a comprehensive RFID-enablement framework delivering
business value through process optimization for manufacturers and other companies,
as well as compliance solutions for retail, pharmaceuticals, the US Department of
Defense, and others.
Infor SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
This advanced electronic data interchange (EDI) and web-enabled solution delivers
faster, more accurate insight into the supply chain—insight that enables customers
to save millions of dollars by replacing fax and value-added network (VAN)
communications, minimizing premium freight charges, improving supplier performance,
and lowering administrative expenses.
Infor’s SRM solution helps companies achieve technology-enabled business process
excellence, increase productivity and cash fow, improve operational effciency and
quality, and increase supplier visibility.
The company’s solutions suite allows organizations to respond faster to change and
opportunity, enable innovation, and proft from a strong, fexible, lean supply chain.
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About Infor
Infor SCM complements an existing ERP software system with electronic
communication of demand to all suppliers and helps deploy lean replenishment
methods with its electronic Kanban and supplier-managed inventory capabilities.
With Infor SCM, businesses run more effcient supply operations, reduce inventory
levels, increase order accuracy, and gain the fexibility to respond immediately to
changes in customer demand.
Infor SRM SupplyWeb
Infor SRM SupplyWeb is the leading supplier relationship management (SRM) solution
in the automotive industry. Infor SRM SupplyWeb version 10 includes new features to
improve collaboration between customers and suppliers, providing new tools designed
to enhance data accuracy, and demand and order management.
SupplyWeb offers manufacturers the benefts of a proven SRM solution that is
easily integrated into their existing ERP system. For customers, this new version
of SupplyWeb demonstrates Infor’s commitment to enrich the value of their current
investments, extend their core ERP applications with new business-specifc solutions
and evolve the Infor product line to produce next-generation solutions.
SupplyWeb signifcantly strengthens the relationship between suppliers in the supply
chain with the addition of new modules, Production Invoicing and Purchase Order
Collaboration, which automate specifc business functions related to order processing
Production Invoicing improves data accuracy between customers and suppliers,
eliminates discrepancies in pricing and payables and allows for more timely payments
from the customer.
Purchase Order Collaboration facilitates a purchase order negotiation process,
allowing customers and suppliers to set terms before committing to an order.


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Infor Supply Chain Management Modules
Infor SCM (Supply Chain Management)
Strategic Network Design
Demand Planning
Distribution Planning
Manufacturing Planning
Production Scheduling
Transportation and Logistics Planning
Warehouse Management System
RFID
Event Management
Infor SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
Demand Fulfllment and Performance Evaluation
Electronic Kanban and Supplier-Managed Inventory Capabilities
Advanced Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Web-Enabled Solution
Infor SRM SupplyWeb
Production Invoicing
Purchase Order Collaboration
Supplier Cumulative Quality Management
Flex Fields
Receipt Reconciliation
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www.logility.com | 1-800-762-5207
HIGHLIGHTS
Focus on best-of-breed supply chain management solutions.
Faster deployment and ROI times; components are easy to implement, easy
to integrate and easy to justify.
Easy maintenance = lower total cost of ownership.
Industry recognition: Start-IT Top 50 for 2008; Software Magazine Software
500 for 2007; Inbound Logistics Top 100 for 2007
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OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ:LGTY)
FOUNDED:
1996, Georgia
supplY Chain solutions:
Logility Voyager Solutions
CUSTOMER FOCUS:
Logility Voyager Solutions is a suite of collaborative, best-of-breed supply chain
solutions that help small, medium, large and Fortune 1000 companies realize
substantial bottom-line results in record time.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Cambrex Karlskoga, Henry A. Petter Supply, Pernod Ricard, Pfzer, Rand McNally,
Pernod Ricard, Sony Electronics, SCM Priorities, A. O. Smith, Associated Grocers.
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About Logility
Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Logility, Inc. is a subsidiary of
American Software, Inc.
Logility provides supply chain management solutions to streamline the market planning,
management, production, and distribution of products worldwide. It offers Logility
Voyager Solutions, an integrated software suite that provides supply chain management,
including collaborative planning, strategic network design, optimized supply sourcing,
production management, warehouse management, and collaborative logistics services.
This suite also interfaces with various enterprise applications deployed on Internet and
client/server operating environments and platforms.
The company also offers Demand Solutions, a multi-tiered planning and replenishment
system for vendor managed inventory. These solutions enable manufacturers,
wholesalers, and distributors to exchange information for inventory. Logility offers its
products and services primarily to businesses in distribution-intensive markets, such as
consumer products, apparel, food and beverage, durable goods, aftermarket service
parts, wholesale distribution, life sciences, and manufacturing.
With an expanding, global client base, Logility’s mission is to help companies in
distribution-intensive industries use collaborative solutions to optimize their supply
chains. Leveraging insights gained from hundreds of customer implementations, Logility’s
award-winning supply chain solutions are designed to provide innovative demand
management, optimized supply chain planning, synchronized production, streamlined
warehouse and improved transportation management.
Pioneering collaborative technology, Logility introduced its frst internet-based solution
to the market in 1996. Since that time, and more than 1,250 customers later, Logility has
continually enhanced technology that enables supply chain effectiveness.
Logility’s overall methodology includes award-winning development strategies, sound
industry alliances, market-leading innovation, implementation services and training, and
24-hour support.
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Logility Key Strengths
Logility provides the real-time operational measurements and control that enable
companies to become performance-driven enterprises. A performance-based
architecture measures, monitors, and notifes users when key supply chain issues
occur. Customers can manage by exception and focus attention where it matters the
most.
Through increased supply chain visibility, Logility customers achieve a competitive
advantage. They realize dramatic improvements in revenue, cycle time, forecast
accuracy, inventory optimization, production, reduced transportation costs and
improved customer satisfaction.
Logility’s SCM solution delivers impressive deployment and ROI times; components
are easy to implement, easy to integrate and easy to justify. Typical implementation
times are much quicker than industry averages. Customers have realized bottom-line
results in record time.
What’s more, the company’s application suite of SCM functionality provides the
industry’s best total cost of ownership; Logility’s solution suite is simple to maintain,
even for companies with limited IT staffs. As a result, total cost of ownership is very
low compared to that of other providers in the supply chain and ERP solutions arenas.
Companies looking for long-term support and continued product innovation turn
to Logility to stay ahead of the technology curve, leveraging proven platforms
such as Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Collaborative Planning, Forecasting &
Replenishment (CPFR®) and Collaborative Transportation Management (CTM).
Logility’s SCM solutions provide the visibility and automation customers need to
proactively plan, source, schedule, produce, store, transport and trace supply chain
activities, in industries with distribution-intensive supply networks.
Logility Technology
The entire Logility solution suite is architected on a performance-based internet platform.
It allows businesses to leverage fexible what-if analyses and dynamic feedback to best
synchronize activities throughout their extended supply chain. As a result companies can
increase revenue, reduce cycle times, improve forecast accuracy, optimize inventory,
leverage production effciencies, reap transportation savings and improve customer
satisfaction.
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Logility Key Features for Supply Chain Management
Logility Voyager Supply Chain Planning
With Logility’s Voyager Supply Chain Planning solution suite, customers can:
More proftably satisfy market demand.
Reduce costs by optimally sourcing and deploying supply chain network resources to
maximize service and proftability.
Leverage simultaneous sourcing and multi-sourcing capabilities.
Optimize loads and employ the lowest-cost, most effcient freight and transportation
strategies.
Support multi-tiered distribution and manufacturing planning.
Identify orders that are not proftable or cannot be met based on current constraints.
Logility Supply Chain Management Modules
Logility Voyager Supply Chain Planning
Performance Management
Value Chain Collaboration
Demand Chain Planning
Global Sourcing Management
Supply Chain Planning
Transportation & Logistics Management

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HIGHLIGHTS
Deep experience - JDA has been serving the supply and demand chain for nearly
30 years.
Offers several hosting and on-demand managed services.
Focus on the retail industry.
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Scottsdale, Arizona
OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ:JDAS)
FOUNDED:
1978, Alberta, Canada
supplY Chain solutions:
JDA Supply & Demand
Optimization
CUSTOMER FOCUS:
As a partner to the world’s leading retailers, wholesaler-distributors and manufacturers,
JDA has helped more than 5,500 mid-tier and larger enterprise customers in more
than 60 countries streamline operations, cut costs, increase proftability and improve
customer service. Industries served by JDA solutions include retail, grocery, wholesale
distribution, and manufacturing.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries, Edgars Consolidated Stores Ltd, Northern Tool &
Equipment Company, Pharmavite LLC, The Co-operative Group, Essar Group, World
Duty Free, Foschini Limited, Cadbury Schweppes, VF Corporation.
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About JDA
JDA Software Group, Inc. is a global leader in delivering integrated software and
professional services for the retail demand chain. By capitalizing on its substantial
market position and fnancial strength, JDA commits signifcant resources to advancing
its best-of-class collection of solutions that address a wide array of critical business
functions including merchandise and inventory management, store operations and point-
of-sale, supply chain collaboration, and business analysis.
Across the global ERP landscape, JDA Software Group supplies the links in the
supply chain. The company’s supply and demand optimization (SDO) software helps
retailers and other businesses manage supply and demand chains, as well as business
processes ranging from planning and forecasting to e-commerce and store operations.
The company also offers point-of-sale applications to handle back-offce functions,
including inventory management, receipts, and returns. Other products include analytic
applications for decision support and collaborative tools for maintaining product and
catalog information with partners, distributors, and suppliers. JDA boasts more than
5,400 customers worldwide.
With North American operations established in 1985, JDA is headquartered in
Scottsdale, Arizona and employs more than 1,200 associates operating from 32 offces
in major cities throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
JDA Key Strengths
JDA has been serving the supply and demand chain for nearly 30 years.
The company’s Supply & Demand Optimization solution set is powered by a collection
of best-in-class products designed to enable retailers, manufacturers and wholesale-
distributors to more proftably anticipate, create and satisfy customer demand.
This comprehensive solution integrates JDA’s proven planning, analysis, optimization
and execution capabilities with collaborative workfow, for seamless integration and
interoperation spanning a wide range of processes across the Customer-Driven Value
Chain.
With Supply & Demand Optimization, decision makers can work together to reduce
operational costs and increase top line revenues across the enterprise, and down to
the store level.
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JDA customers represent more than 65% of software license sales each quarter, a
testament to the real demand chain results that JDA repeatedly delivers.
JDA acquired Manugistics in July 2006. This provider of demand and supply chain
solutions enabled JDA to grow its product line with supply management, demand
management and pricing, and transportation and logistics applications.
JDA is uniquely positioned to support an optimized Customer-Driven Value Chain. It
can help its customers to optimally plan various aspects of their business – from raw
materials acquisition, through manufacturing and replenishment, to the shelf.
JDA Technology
JDA offers several hosting and on-demand managed services to ensure a ft tailored
specifcally to the needs of its customers. Whether an organization’s needs are as
simple as hardware hosting or as substantial as complete application management, JDA
provides a full-spectrum technology platform and support.
JDA Supply Chain Management Solutions
JDA Supply & Demand Optimization
Enterprise Planning
A collaborative and confgurable, workfow-driven planning solution that synchronizes
all planning metrics, including sales, margins or turns, across functional organizations
and reconciles them up and down the enterprise hierarchies.
Enterprise Planning ensures that strategic goals and objectives are met by providing
all participants with visibility to corporate goals so that they can align their plans
accordingly.
Enables rapid response to changing market conditions leveraging a proactive, event-
driven environment so that customers can improve productivity.
Supports and optimizes the strategic, fnancial and operational planning activities
across the Customer-Driven Value Chain so that customers are better equipped to
meet sales and revenue targets.
Provides a single, integrated solution for fnancial, merchandise, channel and key item
planning so that customers can better manage their inventory.
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Space & Category Management
Enables retailers and manufacturers to plan and execute category and merchandise
plans designed to achieve demand-based precision merchandising.
Tailors assortments including product launches and group-specifc go-to-market
strategies, so that customers can improve cluster results and meet true local demand.
Increases movement at full retail value while lowering carrying costs and decreasing
out-of-stocks and excess inventory, so that customers can enhance their overall
proftability.
Price & Promotion Management
Optimizes pricing (taking a competitors’ pricing into account) and promotions planning
and execution to generate maximum sales and margin dollars – to better shape
demand and match supply, ultimately taking the guesswork out of price setting and
promotions planning, delivery and measurement.
Improves fnancial predictability, responsiveness and accuracy, so that customers can
determine the best mix of price and promotion to help them drive revenues and better
understand impact on the forecasts.
Improves utilization of promotional dollars at all levels of the organization, so that
customers can maximize their return on promotional spend.
Generates maximum value from end-of-life, end-of-season and excess inventory, so
that customers can drive up overall margins.
JDA Supply Chain Modules
JDA Supply & Demand Optimization
Enterprise Planning
Space & Category Management
Price & Promotion Management
Demand Planning
Allocation & Replenishment
Supply & Manufacturing Management
Network & Inventory Optimization
Collaboration
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www.redprairie.com | [email protected] | 1-877-733-7724
HIGHLIGHTS
Advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
20+ global service sites and standard service.
A global leader in supply chain technology solutions - 30 years of experience.
“Green” commitment. Solutions and strategies to create more cost-effcient
– and environmentally sustainable – supply chains and store operations.
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Waukesha, Wisconsin

OWNERSHIP:
Private
FOUNDED:
1975, Wisconsin
supplY Chain solutions:
RedPrairie’s E2e™ suite of
Supply Chain Management
CUSTOMER FOCUS:
RedPrairie delivers measurable results for customers in many markets, including high
tech and electronics, consumer goods, food and beverage, third party logistics, retail
and wholesale, service parts, and make-to-order manufacturing.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Foster’s Group, TNT Logistics, Sony, Access Business Group, The Finish Line, The
Carphone Warehouse, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Cummins Filtration, Logiwiz, Accel,
Farmacia Guadalajara.
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About RedPrairie
RedPrairie provides supply chain execution, store management, logistics, and
warehouse management software that companies use to manage their supply chains.
Its applications monitor and control all phases of the supply chain, from inbound logistics
and inventory management to order fulfllment and transportation. It also provides
collaboration tools to help companies interact with trading partners. Founded in 1975,
RedPrairie was acquired by private equity frm Francisco Partners Management for
approximately $240 million in 2005.
RedPrairie is a world leading consumer-driven optimization company. Built on an
advanced Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) developed over the past 15 years, the
RedPrairie integrated E2e™ solutions offer on-demand capabilities to over 32,000 sites
worldwide for many of the world’s largest companies.
RedPrairie’s E2e solutions synchronize people and products throughout the customer
buying cycle to ensure goods reach the right place at the right time. At the point of sale,
this means consumers have access to desired products and that the store is staffed with
the right people to help them make their purchases. In the production cycle, it means
suppliers and manufacturers time and synchronize shipments and production based on
demand signals from the retailer. And in the back room of the store, it means having the
least amount of inventory, solving the “last yard” problem of the retail supply chain.
With 20+ global service sites and standard service methods that have been validated
over the last 30 years, RedPrairie provides unparalleled service and support.
RedPrairie Key Strengths
RedPrairie is a global leader in supply chain technology solutions that help customers
achieve measurable logistics results, end-to-end across their extended supply chains,
driving out costs, improving customer service and creating competitive advantage.
RedPrairie delivers superior logistics results by driving out more logistics costs than
anyone in the industry, and enabling customers to consistently achieve their supply
chain objectives. This is accomplished through an integrated suite of DigitaLogistix
solutions that provide the industry’s leading transportation, productivity, and
distribution management capabilities, enhanced with action-oriented components for
real-time control and performance measurement.
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These solutions are deployed through an end-to-end value delivery system (the
RedPrairie Approach) that ensures results achievement.
The effectiveness of the RedPrairie solution suite of applications is enhanced through
an industry-exclusive tactical optimization layer that enables lowest cost, streamlined
operations.
RedPrairie also provides applications for international trade logistics, mobile resource
management, supply chain security and inventory optimization to address the broader
needs for global supply chain management and security.
RedPrairie Technology
RedPrairie’s RFID-enabled suite of supply chain execution solutions provide the
industry’s leading transportation, productivity, and distribution management capabilities,
integrated with process management components for real-time visibility, event
management and resolution, quality control, supplier collaboration and performance
measurement.
RedPrairie Supply Chain Management Solutions
RedPrairie’s E2e™ Supply Chain Management & Supply Chain Execution
Manages multiple fows of goods and information across complex networks of
suppliers, co-packers, carriers, freight forwarders, logistics service providers and
many other players.
Optimizes every node in these extended networks, and synchronizes the fow of
products and information all the way to the retail shelf - supply chain management
solutions reduce inventory levels at each stage, improve on-shelf and just-in-time
performance, and improve top line growth and proftability.
Delivers the robust functionality to optimize each and every node, and the workfow,
visibility and control capabilities needed to synchronize the entire supply chain
network.
RedPrairie breaks down the Supply Chain Management suite into functional groupings
based on the movement, storage, people and process components common to supply
networks.
Modules include: Transportation Management, Warehouse Management, Workforce
Management, Labor Management, Business Process Integration
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HIGHLIGHTS
Backed by the strength of Microsoft.
Complete business management software: e-commerce, supply chain,
manufacturing, CRM, HR, project accounting.
Comprehensive supply chain management solutions for mid-market companies.
Uses familiar Microsoft interface.
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OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ: MSFT)
FOUNDED:
1975, New Mexico
supplY Chain solutions:
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Microsoft Dynamics GP
Microsoft Dynamics SL
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Microsoft distributes its products primarily through the following channels: OEM;
distributors and resellers; and online services. Its Supply Chain Management products
are an integral part of its Dynamic ERP solution suite, which is used by small and
medium-sized organizations, enterprises, governmental institutions, educational
institutions, Internet Service Providers, application developers, and OEMs.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Allchem Industries, Aspen Marketing, Giant Bicycle, CMC Motors, Festool, Bestseller,
Pebblestone Fashion International, Kwik Fit Netherlands, Tanner Companies, Rich
Foods Corporation.
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About Microsoft Dynamics
Founded in 1981, Microsoft Business Solutions, Inc. is a global provider of enterprise
business solutions for the midmarket. Microsoft Business Solutions offers e-business
applications for fnancials, distribution, project accounting, electronic commerce, human
resource management, manufacturing, sales and marketing management, and customer
service and support.
Named for the third time to the “Top 100 Companies to Work for in America” list,
Microsoft Business Solutions employs more than 3,800 employees worldwide. The
company’s products and services automate essential business functions and enhance
the strategic value of fnancial and operational information. Microsoft Business Solutions
products are sold and implemented by a unique worldwide network of independent
partner organizations that share the company’s commitment to lasting customer
relationships.
Microsoft’s research and development facilities are located primarily in Redmond,
Washington with smaller facilities located in Mountain View, California; Fargo,
North Dakota; Beijing, China; Dublin etc. As of June 30, 2005, Microsoft employed
approximately 61,000 people.
Like its size, Microsoft’s ambitions are anything but small. The world’s number one
software company provides a variety of products and services, including its Windows
operating systems and Offce software suite. The company has expanded into markets
such as video game consoles, servers and storage software, and digital music players.
In early 2008 the company made an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo! for about $44.6
billion.
Success includes the fexibility to respond to emerging markets, such as today’s
growth opportunities in China and Eastern Europe, and to the ever changing needs of
customers.
In response to these global challenges, Microsoft offers Microsoft Dynamics, a suite of
integrated, adaptable business applications for small and medium-sized organizations
and divisions of large enterprises. These integrated solutions—delivered through
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a worldwide network of experienced Microsoft Certifed Partners—work like and
with familiar Microsoft software and help automate and improve fnancial, customer
relationship, and supply chain management.
Microsoft Dynamics Key Strengths
With Microsoft Dynamics, an organization can connect its entire supply chain in a
productive, fast-moving fow. The business value of vendors and business partner
relationships is enhanced signifcantly. And these increased effciencies in distribution
translate to improved customer satisfaction and reduced cost of doing business.
Microsoft Dynamics solutions provides employees with a multitude of ways to plan,
coordinate, and executive delivery of goods and services productively. Companies
realize a strong return on investment as a result of better individual and team
productivity, streamlined operations, and more effective collaboration.
Using Microsoft Dynamics, people can effectively improve supply chain effciency,
with minimal time spent on product training and learning. The user interface is familiar,
consistent, and comfortable—just like that of other Microsoft programs people work
with.
Microsoft Dynamics gives people across the supply chain visibility into customer
demand and the delivery of goods—helping them make faster, better business
decisions and take the best course of action when adjustments are necessary.
With features such as automatic notifcation, a team can easily can keep tabs on
inventory, helping sustain optimal item levels without tying up funds in the warehouse.
They can plan purchasing at favorable terms and in a timely manner, controlling costs
and ensuring that the organization meets its customer commitments. And they can
connect closely with operations to make sure manufacturing has the materials it needs
to deliver products on time.
Microsoft Dynamics’ supply chain strengths can help the team fulfll customer
commitments with greater reliability and accountability, and deliver the products and
services customers want, when they need them.
Microsoft Dynamics Technology
The Microsoft Dynamics licensed suite of software products and applications, built on
familiar and widely used Microsoft technologies, offers a wide array of full-spectrum ERP
solutions for Supply Chain Management.
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Microsoft Dynamics Supply Chain Management Solutions
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Automates sales and purchasing and streamlines intercompany operations.
Enables Web access so that the sales team to exchange accurate and up-to-
date information with vendors, sell products and services, exchange information
with consultants, and confgure complex products company information--anytime,
anywhere.
Helps manage a broad range of other business areas, minimizing the need for multiple
systems.
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Delivers the tools a business needs to respond quickly to customers, rapidly pursue
new market opportunities, and improve proftability by working effciently with trade
partners.
Tightens the distribution processes and improves inventory management for single- or
multi-site warehouses, and handles order processing and demand planning.
Helps manage a broad range of other business areas according to the particular
needs of the organization.
Microsoft Dynamics GP
As an ERP software solution, Microsoft Dynamics for distributors manages inventory
and goods to keep distribution moving smoothly.
Maintains tight control over distribution and streamlines the pick/pack/ship cycle to
gain competitive advantage.
From forecasting to delivery, Microsoft Dynamics GP can help accelerate sales order
processes and reduce costs per transaction. Integrated applications help manage
inventory more effectively, fll orders faster, and improve customer service with e-
commerce.
Enables a company to meet customer demand effciently, with inventory and order
management that reduces cost, improves accuracy, and speeds fulfllment.
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Microsoft Dynamics SL
Microsoft Dynamics SL (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions–Solomon) offers
systems for the distribution industry. Integrated applications help effciently manage
inventory, order, and purchasing management; sales forecasting; e-commerce; and
warehouse management.
These applications connect directly with dozens of other business management
systems to help organizations meet the diverse needs of their business, including
accounting, CRM, human resources and payroll, supply chain management,
manufacturing, and more.
Microsoft Dynamics Supply Chain Modules
Microsoft Dynamics AX
Commerce Gateway
Enterprise Portal
Logistics
Master Planning
Product Builder
Production
Supply Chain Visibility
Trade
Warehouse Management (WMS)
Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Inventory Management
Warehouse Management
Supply Planning
Business Notifcations
Sales and Purchase Document Workfow Approvals


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Distribution II
Microsoft Dynamics SL
Advanced Shipping Manager
Bill of Materials
Inventory Management & Replenishment
Landed Cost
Order Management
Order to Purchase
Purchasing
Work Order
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www.oracle.com | 1-800-633-0738
HIGHLIGHTS
Backed by the strength of one of the world’s largest software application frms.
Broad range of supply chain management applications ft the needs of companies
of all sizes, in all industries.
Winner of several awards: Best Supply Chain Management System,’ Intelligent
Enterprise 2007 Readers’ Choice Award, ‘The Supply Chain Software Award,’
Supply Chain Excellence Awards organized by SCMLogistics World 2006.
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Redwood Shores, CA

OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ: ORCL)
FOUNDED:
1977, California
supplY Chain solutions:
Oracle E-Business Suite
Supply Chain Management
Oracle Service Optimization
Suite
PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply
Chain Management
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Supply Chain Management
Oracle Transportation
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Thousands of small to mid-size companies and larger enterprises across a broad
range of public and private sector industries use Oracle’s enterprise-class business
products and solutions to reduce cost and improve performance.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Schneider National, Pella Corporation, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, Doskocil, New
York City Housing Authority, Panasonic Factory Solutions, Intersil.
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About Oracle
After 30 years of providing leading-edge solutions to a vast and growing base of
customers, Oracle remains the gold standard for database technology and applications
in enterprises throughout the world: The company is the world’s leading supplier of
software for information management, and the world’s second largest independent
software company. Oracle technology can be found in nearly every industry, and in the
data centers of 98 of the Fortune 100 companies. Oracle is the frst software company
to develop and deploy 100 percent internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire
product line: database, business applications, and application development and decision
support tools.
It is innovation that drives Oracle’s success. With the release of Oracle Fusion
Middleware, Oracle has begun debuting new products and functionality that refect the
company’s goal: connecting all levels of enterprise technology to help customers access
the knowledge they need to respond to market conditions with speed and agility. Today,
Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Grid Computing,
support for enterprise Linux, and Oracle Fusion all fuel a commitment to innovation and
results that has defned Oracle for thirty years.
Looking ahead, Oracle will strive to become number one in middleware and number
one in software applications, just as the company has done in database applications.
The organization’s goal is to continue to innovate and to lead the industry—while always
making sure that it stays focused on solving the problems of the customers who rely on
its software.
The company’s success speaks for itself. Oracle applications run in more than 1,500
public sector organizations, 10 of the world’s top 10 banks, 20 of the world’s top 20
telecom companies, and 10 of the top 10 academic universities worldwide.
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Oracle Key Strengths
Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the complete, integrated solution that
powers information-driven supply chains. With Oracle SCM, companies can predict
market requirements, innovate in response to volatile market conditions, and align
operations across global networks.
Oracle SCM provides industry-specifc solutions based on best-in-class applications
that span product development, demand management, sales and operations planning,
transportation management, and supply management.
Oracle provides best-in-class global transportation management and supply
management, and integrated manufacturing execution systems (MES).
Oracle delivers best in class capabilities including demand management, product
design, analytics, and optimization via strategic acquisitions including Demantra, Agile,
and 360Commerce.
Among the honors and awards bestowed on Oracle for its world-class enterprise
solutions include ‘Best Supply Chain Management System,’ Intelligent Enterprise
2007 Readers’ Choice Award, ‘The Supply Chain Software Award,’ Winner of Supply
Chain Asia Logistics Awards 2007, ‘Best Supply Chain Software Solution Provider,’
and winner of the Supply Chain Excellence Awards organized by SCMLogistics World
2006.
Oracle Technology
Oracle Application Integration Architecture is a comprehensive set of products that
deliver sustainable business process based integrations across Oracle, third party and
custom applications. With its open, standards-based foundation, Oracle Application
Integration Architecture enables you to create streamlined business processes that
span application boundaries, while greatly shortening time to value.
Oracle Fusion Middleware for Applications applies Oracle’s market-leading middleware
portfolio to the leading business applications. Extend the business value of your
applications across user communities, lines of business, and organizations. The only
comprehensive and integrated middleware foundation certifed with Oracle HCM,
CRM, fnancial management, and other business applications.
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Oracle Supply Chain Management Solutions
Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management
Integrates and automates all key supply chain processes, from design, planning and
procurement to manufacturing and fulfllment, providing a complete solution set to
enable companies to power information-driven value chains.
Companies can anticipate market requirements and risks, adapt and innovate to
respond to volatile market conditions, and align operations across global networks.
A unifed data model provides a single, accurate view of a customer’s entire supply
chain. Companies can implement lean, demand driven principles and manage their
increasingly complex, global supply chains.
Oracle Service Optimization Suite
The Oracle Service Optimization Suite (OSO) features a best-of-breed, modular,
confgurable design that allows customers to choose the right components that meet
their unique business requirements.
The highly confgurable nature of OSO enables it to be deployed in a broad range
of supply chain sectors such as Home Delivery, Field Service and Facilities
Management.
From capacity planning, through vehicle, technician and customer scheduling, to
dispatch management and mobile operations, Oracle Service Optimization Suite can
help customers take their service delivery business to the next level of operational
effciency and customer satisfaction.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management
Provides a cohesive yet fexible solution for the synchronized supply chain, driving
effciencies in cost savings over the entire supply chain—including plan-to-produce
and order-to-cash business processes.
PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management is a family of applications in
Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise product suite.
Extends a company’s supply chain in real time by connecting suppliers and customers
with company business processes.
Provides integrated spend management for all categories of goods and services.
Delivers embedded analytics to monitor supply chain performance and adjust as
conditions and business goals shift.

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Management
These software modules promote revenue growth and cost reduction by improving
fulfllment rates, allowing better asset and capacity utilization and expanding market
dominance while reducing inventory, shrinking lead times, and achieving overall cost-
of-goods improvements.
JD Edwards Supply Chain Management is part of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
family of applications.
Oracle Transportation Management
Delivers robust transportation planning and execution capabilities to shippers and third
party logistics providers.
Integrates and streamlines transportation planning, execution, freight payment,
and business process automation on a single application across all modes of
transportation, from full truckload to complex multi-leg air, ocean, and rail shipments.
Lowers transportation costs, improves customer service and asset utilization, and
provides fexible, global fulfllment options.
Oracle Supply Chain Modules
Oracle Supply Chain Management Suite
Advanced Procurement
Logistics & Transportation
Product Lifecycle Management
Asset Lifecycle Management
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Planning
Order Fulfllment
Order Management
Oracle Service Optimization Suite
Oracle Real-Time Appointment Scheduler
Oracle Real-Time Dispatch Manager
Oracle Real-Time Resource Manager
Oracle Real-Time Resource Scheduler
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About Oracle
PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management
Customer Order Management
Supply Chain Planning
Inventory and Fulfllment Management
Manufacturing Solution
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supply Chain Management
Food and Beverage Producers
Manufacturing
Supply Chain Execution (Logistics)
Supply Chain Planning (SCP)
Supply Management (Procurement)
ORACLE Transportation Management
Forwarding and Brokerage Operations
Freight Payment, Billing, and Claims
Fusion Transportation Intelligence
Logistics Inventory Visibility
Transportation Operational Planning
Transportation Sourcing
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www.sap.com/usa | 1-800-872-1727
HIGHLIGHTS
Backed by the strength of SAP, the largest business software
company in the world.
Recognized by Gartner Group as the world’s leading SCM vendor with total market
share of 19.7%.
Highly customizable.
Licensed and on-demand solutions.
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HEADQUARTERS:
Walldorf, Germany
Newtown Square, PA (U.S.
headquarters)

OWNERSHIP:
Public (NYSE: SAP)
FOUNDED:
1972, Walldorf, Germany
supplY Chain solutions:
SAP SCM
SAP Business One
SAP Business ByDesign
SAP Business All-in-One
SAP SRM
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CUSTOMER FOCUS:
SAP Solutions are global software applications delivered for small businesses, midsize
companies, and large enterprises predominately in the retail, manufacturing, service,
and pharmaceutical sectors.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Cat Logistics, LSI Logic, Airbus Spares Support and Services, Porsche AG, BASF
AG, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co. Inc., Kraft Foods International, Conair, Siemens
Medical Solutions, Sony Marketing Asia Pacifc.
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About SAP
SAP Americas is a subsidiary of SAP AG, the world’s largest business software
company and the third-largest software supplier overall. SAP Americas’ corporate
headquarters is located in Newtown Square, PA, a suburb of Philadelphia. The
company’s offcers and executives lead a team of professionals dedicated to delivering
high-level customer support and services.
Founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP has a
rich history of innovation and growth that has made it the recognized leader in providing
collaborative business solutions for all types of industries – in every major market. The
company, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, employs more than 46,100 people in
more than 50 countries, and serves more than 43,400 customers worldwide.
With a mission statement that emphasizes experience, knowledge, and technology for
maximizing business, SAP has successfully leveraged its extensive experience to deliver
a comprehensive range of solutions to empower every aspect of business operations.
Organizations of all sizes can use SAP solutions – including small business solutions
and solutions for midsize companies – to reduce costs, improve performance, and gain
the agility to respond to changing business needs.
By deploying the best technology, services, and development resources, SAP has
delivered a business platform that unlocks valuable information resources, improves
supply chain effciencies, and builds strong customer relationships. And through the
Global Solution Center, SAP Americas identifes customer needs and develops solutions
to meet these needs.
SAP is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the
New York Stock Exchange, under the symbol “SAP.”
SAP Key Strengths
The SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) application can help an organization
transform a linear supply chain into an adaptive supply chain network, in which
communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies share knowledge,
intelligently adapt to changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter,
less predictable life cycles.
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About SAP
The SAP solution synchronizes supply to demand – robust, confgurable components
allow customers to balance push and pull network planning processes, replenish
inventory quickly, and execute production based on actual demand.
Customers can sense and respond to changing environments with an adaptive supply
chain network – and drive distribution, transportation, and logistics processes that are
integrated with real-time planning processes.
SAP’s SCM solution suite provides network wide visibility, collaboration, and analytics
– as well as full capability to monitor and analyze the extended supply chain.
More than 25,000 small and midsize companies have selected SAP to drive
operational effciency and proftable growth.
SAP Technology
The SAP solutions suite comprises licensed and on-demand applications and services.
The company’s Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (Enterprise SOA) is a blueprint
for an adaptable, fexible, and open IT architecture for developing services-based,
enterprise-scale business solutions. With SAP NetWeaver as a technical foundation,
enterprise SOA moves IT architectures to higher levels of adaptability – and moves
companies closer to the vision of real-time enterprises by elevating Web services to an
enterprise level.
SAP Supply Chain Management Solutions
SAP Business One
An affordable, easy-to-use business management software designed specifcally for
small and midsize businesses.
Enables customers to manage their critical business functions across sales,
distribution, and fnancials, all in a single integrated system.
With SAP Business One, companies can instantaneously access a complete and up-
to-the-minute view of the business, so they can respond to customers faster and grow
the business more proftably.
SAP Business ByDesign
Streamlines processes and eliminates departmental silos.
Improves the effciency and effectiveness of employees.
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About SAP
Helps customers make better, more proactive decisions.
Adapts to changing market requirements-quicker than competitors.
Lets customers gain control and visibility over their entire business.
Simplifes IT by allowing SAP to manage software-as-a-service.
SAP Business All-in-One
Confgurable and extensible business solution for midsize companies.
Fast-Start Program provides innovations that let customers confgure their SCM
solution online and receive an immediate cost estimate for a cost-effective
deployment.
Delivers rapid time to value and the fexibility to adapt as an organization’s needs
change. Best of all, SAP Business All-in-One is an affordable and safe long-term
investment.
SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM)
Provides strategic value through sustainable cost savings, contract compliance, and
quick time-to-value.
Equips customers with tools to optimize procurement operations and drive superior
results through an end-to-end source-to-pay process.
Activities such as spend analysis, category management, requisitioning, sourcing,
operational contracts, invoicing, and supplier management are part of an integrated
platform.
SAP Supply Chain Modules
SAP Supply Chain Management
SAP Business One (SAP Small Business Solution)
Sales opportunity management
Business partner management
Inventory
Production
Material requirements planning (MRP)
Service management
Reporting
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About SAP
SAP Business ByDesign (SAP Midsize Business solution)
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Setup Management
-Supply Chain Design
-Production Modeling
-Resource Planning and Allocation
Supply Chain Planning and Control
-Demand Planning
- Demand Management and Order Confrmation
- Exception Monitoring and Control
- Supply Planning
-Supply and Logistics Control
Manufacturing, Warehousing, and Logistics
-Inbound and Outbound Logistics
-Internal Logistics
-Inventory Management
-Production
-Quality Assurance
-Tracking, Tracing, and Identifcation
-Task Management and Automation
Supplier Relationship Management
SAP E-Sourcing application
SAP E-Sourcing on-demand solution
SAP Spend Analytics
SAP Contract Lifecycle Management
SAP Cost and Quotation Management
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www.manh.com | [email protected] | 1-877-596-9208
HIGHLIGHTS
Focus on supply chain management software. Deep commitment to offering
the best and deepest supply chain solutions to its customers.
Deep investments in supply chain research and development—in excess of $45
million in 2007.
Focus on small to mid-sized companies - 1,200 clients.
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HEADQUARTERS:
Atlanta, GA

OWNERSHIP:
Public (NASDAQ:MANH)
FOUNDED:
1990, California
supplY Chain solutions:
SCOPE Platform Applications
Supply Chain Intelligence
Supply Chain Visibility
Supply Chain Event
Management
X-Suite Solutions
Supply Chain Process
Platform
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CUSTOMER FOCUS:
Manhattan Associates successfully draws on its extensive experience with small to mid-
sized companies in a broad range of industries, including the retail, consumer goods,
food, government, high tech, industrial, and life sciences sectors.
SELECT CUSTOMERS:
Meteor Electrical, Kenco, Vera Bradley, Crocs Inc., Dalepak, Cabela, Global Shipping &
Logistics, The Co-op, Weetabix, Woolworths, MOL Logistics.
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About Manhattan Associates
Manhattan Associates is a leading supply chain solutions provider. The company’s
supply chain planning, supply chain execution, business intelligence and business
process platform capabilities enable its more than 1,200 customers worldwide to
enhance proftability, performance and competitive advantage.
From fexible, intuitive planning, to advanced forecasting and replenishment, to integrated
supply chain execution -- Manhattan Associates provides a comprehensive range
of easy-to-use solutions. These solutions are designed to help customers run their
businesses more effciently, grow profts, delight customers -- and beat competitors. The
company’s team of experts offers years of real-world experience and is committed to
helping companies solve the everyday problems they face.
By combining planning and execution expertise with the highest level of customer
service, Manhattan Associates helps companies manage their entire supply chain more
effciently than ever before. Their customers have the opportunity to leverage a single
solution provider for all their supply chain needs to make their jobs easier and serve their
customers better.
Globally, since 1990, Manhattan Associates has helped customers use technology
to identify the weak links in their supply chains, reconfgure their processes and
optimize their performance. Shortly after its inception in 1990 in Manhattan Beach,
California, Manhattan Associates gained a reputation for providing world-class
warehouse management solutions. Since that time, the company has continually
expanded its products and added capabilities to better serve its customers. Today
Manhattan Associates offers a holistic approach to supply chain with SCOPE: Supply
Chain Optimization—Planning through Execution, which brings together all the tools
businesses need to integrate, upgrade and optimize their supply chain.
Looking to the future, Manhattan Associates is aggressively pursuing the dynamic level
of growth it must achieve to meet the needs of its global customers. In 2006 alone,
Manhattan Associates added 400 employees to help it initiate 260 implementations.
The company’s investment in research and development continues to exceed any other
company’s, and has increased 250% in the last fve years, to a 2007 total of $45 million.
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About Manhattan Associates
Manhattan Associates Key Strengths
The company’s software portfolio includes fve key Supply Chain Solution Suites:
Planning and Forecasting, Inventory Optimization, Order Lifecycle Management,
Transportation Lifecycle Management and Distribution Management. These solution
suites are enhanced by Platform Applications -- including Supply Chain Intelligence,
Supply Chain Visibility and Supply Chain Event Management -- that organize and
deliver the information and processes needed to optimize supply chains across
functions and locations within and outside an enterprise.
For 17 years, Manhattan Associates has concentrated exclusively on helping
companies streamline their supply chains to achieve lower costs, higher profts and
happier customers. Virtually all of the company’s 2,300 employees focus on supply
chain optimization. They work directly to bring value to 1,200 customers through
research and development, training, implementation and ongoing support.
Manhattan Associates builds its knowledge of supply chain optimization every day so
that it can bring its customers the best possible solutions for their needs. Each year
Manhattan Associates invests more in supply chain research and development than
any other company in the world—in excess of $45 million in 2007.
In addition to its many PhDs and other experts, the Manhattan Science Advisory
Board brings together thought leaders and international researchers from outstanding
academic institutions such as MIT, Columbia University and Georgia Tech to discuss
advances in the underlying science, address new economic developments and identify
fruitful areas of research.
Manhattan Associates is committed to offering the best and deepest supply chain
solutions to its customers.
Manhattan Associates Technology
Manhattan Associates’ Supply Chain Process Platform provides a unifying architecture
that fosters agility and scalability while minimizing solution implementation, evolution
and support costs. More than 1,200 customers worldwide use Manhattan Associates’
global, on-demand and licensed supply chain solutions to enhance proftability and build
sustainable competitive advantage.
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About Manhattan Associates
Manhattan Associates Supply Chain Management Solutions
Manhattan’s SCOPE: Supply Chain Optimization
Planning through Execution optimizes all the links in the supply chain from order
placement to delivery.
Planning and Forecasting provides the crucial front end to an organization’s supply
chain that takes a customer’s business to a higher level.
Demand Forecasting lets decision makers predict demand at any combination of
product and location nodes. Demand Forecasting is designed and synchronized to
produce the optimal forecast input for Inventory Optimization, fnancial or assortment
planning.
Multi-Channel Planning integrates planning for the organization’s web, catalog and
store channels to reduce redundancy and increase effciency, while still respecting the
unique characteristics of each channel.
Financial Planning delivers top-down or bottom-up planning with an easy to use, but
powerful solution that manages multiple versions of plans across categories, channels
and time periods.
Assortment Planning customizes assortments by channel. Lets customers see buyers’
changes immediately so they can reach their business goals with the right mix of
products.
Item Planning synchronizes with assortment planning to support time-phased planning
and tracking for multiple key performance indicators.
Promotion Planning coordinates all aspects of promotions from one solution.
Manhattan Associates Supply Chain Modules
Manhattan’s SCOPE: Supply Chain Optimization
Planning and Forecasting
- Demand Forecasting
- Multi-Channel Planning
- Assortment Planning
- Item Planning
- Promotion Planning
- Store Clustering
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Inventory Optimization
- Replenishment
- Multi-Echelon
- Vendor Managed Inventory
- Collaboration Gateway
Order Lifecycle Management
- Distribution Order Management
- Reverse Logistics Management
- Collaboration Gateway
Transportation Lifecycle Management
- Transportation Procurement
- Transportation Planning & Execution
- Logistics Gateway
- Fleet Management
- Appointment Scheduling
- Yard Management
Distribution Management
- Warehouse Management
- Slotting Optimization
- Labor Management
- Billing Management
- Supplier Enablement
- Hub Management
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