Adexa Introduces Enterprise Global Planning System -- eGPS --; Industry's First and Only Solution Joining Strategy and Planning with Execution and Measurement.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2002

Adexa Inc., a leading provider of enterprise business planning solutions, today announced the availability of its Enterprise Global Planning System (eGPS). Adexa eGPS(TM) is a comprehensive suite of 11 solutions that address an emerging space AMR Research refers to as enterprise performance management.

According to an article by John Hagerty and Simon Pollard in The AMR Research Report, August 2002, "Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is an emerging superset of applications and processes that cross the traditional department boundaries to manage the full lifecycle of business decision-making. It combines strategic goal-setting and alignment with planning, forecasting, and modeling capabilities."

The 11 solutions comprising Adexa eGPS are:

-- Corporate Planning: identifies financial opportunities and links them to key value-driving business strategies in order to set overall corporate objectives for capital utilization in the areas of capital-intensive equipment, direct and indirect inventory and materials, and people

-- Event Management and Analytics: monitors a cross-departmental and cross-functional catalog of more than 600 key performance indicators (KPIs), delivers real-time results to corporate decision-makers, and alerts responsible individuals of unexpected changes and trends

-- Sales, Operations and Inventory Planning (SOIP): coordinates internal stakeholders such as Sales, Marketing, and Operations with a single plan of record, balances supply and demand across the supply chain in order to optimize inventory allocation in accordance with service-level requirements and avoid capacity bottlenecks

-- Product Lifecycle Management: accelerates the introduction of new products, considering all stages of the product lifecycle including design, engineering, sales and marketing, manufacturing, distribution and product end-of-life

-- Supply Chain Planning: generates an enterprise-wide supply chain model to synchronize supply with demand, optimizing the entire network of supply chain resources by using forecasts and customer orders at product family or end-item level to improve constraint-based production planning, rough-cut capacity planning, and master scheduling

-- Factory Planning and Scheduling: creates plant-level production plans, optimizing resource utilization, manufacturing cycle time and other production processes

-- Collaborative Demand Planning: maintains an up-to-date, real-time view of demand, allocations and consensus forecast based on data from customers, marketing and sales organizations in order to allocate supply to demand based on user-defined rules

-- Collaborative Supply Planning: maintains an up-to-date, real-time view of constrained and unconstrained supply plans, producing aggregated plans across business units to negotiate better contracts and support sourcing across multiple vendors based on user-defined rules

-- Order Fulfillment: accelerates the execution of order fulfillment in an environment spanning multiple groups, departments, plants and companies by quickly calculating product availability and quoting accurate delivery dates based on actual supply chain status

-- Supplier Management: manages and accelerates the processing of purchase orders through a multi-tier supplier network by streamlining the procurement process and compressing the time between the generation of requisitions and committed purchase orders

-- Order Lifecycle Management: enables real-time collaboration among several users across a multi-tier supply chain to track individual orders through their lifecycle from inception to delivery, propagating a demand signal through the supply chain based on an order's bill of materials (BOM), sourcing rules and allocation rules at each step

"Our eGPS guides customers to their corporate destinations - profitability, marketshare, sales targets, capitalization, and returns to shareholders - in the same way that a global positioning system guides drivers to their geographic destinations," said Cyrus Hadavi, president and chief executive officer of Adexa. "Our system considers all of the relevant information in order to chart an integrated plan for arriving at a set of goals. Further, Adexa eGPS continually measures progress on this path and identifies the best detour routes as required to ensure success even as unexpected roadblocks appear along the way. This combination of a big-picture strategic view and a detailed tactical plan is unique in the industry and is the key to Adexa's ability to provide our customers with the information and tools they need to win in today's competitive marketplace."

eGPS Architecture

Adexa's eGPS architecture provides a business application framework that combines both planning and execution into a single web-enabled environment. The architecture provides the following capabilities:

-- Support for intelligent, flexible, scalable, fast solvers

-- Collaboration with intelligence at both planning and order

levels

-- Scalable, reliable, transactional computing

-- Open integration with enterprise systems (ERP, OM, MES)

and transactional systems

-- Connectivity with trading partners that includes web-based

services as well as traditional EDI connectivity

This is accomplished using open standards computing that consists of a browser-based client, use of standard web servers (Apache and IIS), J2EE compliant application components, high-performance components in C++ for solving, support for both Unix and Windows, and portability to a variety of hardware platforms (Unix and Wintel) and databases (DB2, ORACLE, Microsoft). Adexa supports web services connectivity in the suite, and connectivity to EAI and B2B tools (IBM Websphere and Vitria). Adexa's is the fastest, most scalable and flexible in its space. The suite is anchored on its single data model, built by Adexa, which provides a high-performance platform at a low total cost of ownership.

Availability

eGPS is currently generally available.

About Adexa

Founded in 1994, Adexa delivers solutions that synchronize corporate planning with operations planning and execution, to ensure assets are utilized to achieve strategic objectives. Adexa helps companies reduce the cost of goods sold, shorten lead-times for orders and reduce inventory costs through improved supply chain collaboration and management. Adexa's Enterprise Global Planning System (eGPS) analyzes and benchmarks enterprise performance, at a fine level of detail, to set attainable objectives that deliver the greatest return on assets. eGPS aggregates supply and demand information, measured against material and capacity constraints, for the rapid development of integrated, accurate and flexible planning and execution scenarios.

Adexa's global customer base includes AMD, Firmenich, General Motors, Hitachi, Johnson & Johnson, Lucent, Maytag, Philips, Pulse, Siemens, Teijin Limited, TSMC, Unilever, and Xerox. For more information visit www.adexa.com