ADVISORY/Covansys, IBM, and Frontline Co-Host Supply Chain Remediation Seminar in New York.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (November 5, 2003)

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Experts to Address Improving Supply Chain Efficiency to Offset Cost of Complying with New Homeland Security Regulations

WHO:      Operations management executives (chief operating officers,
          operations directors, supply chain and logistics managers),
          CIOs, security officers, media, analysts and others
          interested in learning more about recent regulatory
          compliance issues and maximizing supply chain efficiency.

WHEN:     November 5, 2003
          7:30-11:00 A.M.

WHERE:    Grand Hyatt
          Park Avenue at Grand Central Station
          New York, NY

WHAT: Gordon Fuller, Practice Lead of Secure Logistics for Covansys Corporation, will address how compliance with recent Homeland Security regulations alters the definition of an effective supply chain. Improved asset tracking, through electronic reporting and RFID technology, can meet the regulatory mandates and deliver efficiency gains to offset the costs of compliance.

This seminar will explain the effect of changing regulations and technology on supply chains, highlight real-world problems, illustrate the areas where management oversight can most effectively control the events and interfaces, and provide a successful approach to business and system remediation.

Gordon Fuller Background Information

Gordon Fuller serves as practice lead for Covansys' Secure Logistics practice, where he assists clients with managing Homeland Security compliance, Sunrise remediation, and RFID adoption to achieve better asset tracking and improved operational efficiency. Fuller has more than 15 years of experience in technology, logistics, finance, marketing and strategy planning.

Prior to joining Covansys, Fuller worked for more than a decade as manager of e-commerce at Sea-Land Service, the ocean transportation company. He assisted retailers such as Wal-Mart and Nordstrom in improving their transportation and logistic systems and processes, and introduced barcode technology to several West Coast ports to improve the flow and tracking of automobiles and other high-value cargo.

WHY: The Container Security Initiative regulations, recent Homeland Security regulations, are intended to improve U.S. security by tightening and expanding cargo-reporting requirements. All modes of import and export (road, rail, air and marine) are now required to electronically transmit cargo manifests to the U.S. Customs Service before departure.

Attendees will learn how their companies can comply with these regulations, and how compliance can improve supply chain efficiency for the company's own benefit.

Register online at: http://events.covansys.com/csiforum.asp. For more information, please call 1-888-661-4843. For more information on CSI or RFID, please visit http://www.csiinstitute.com/. Please direct media inquiries for Covansys Corporation to Megan Page, Morrissey & Company, at 617-523-4141, [e-mail].