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

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (Nov. 13)

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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 13, 2003
        7:30-11:00 A.M.

WHERE:  IBM San Francisco - Room One
        425 Market Street
        San Francisco, CA

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].