Advanced Fibre Communications, Aspect Communications and Juniper Networks Choose Valdero for Optimal Supply Chain Control.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2002

New Customers Validate Growing Demand for Increased Visibility

Into Outsourced Manufacturing Operations 

Valdero(c) Corporation, the leader in Intelligent Supply Chain Control, today announced that three leading technology companies have selected Valdero's solutions for providing visibility into and control of outsourced supply chains. Commitments by Advanced Fibre Communications (Nasdaq:AFCI), Aspect Communications (Nasdaq:ASPT) and Juniper Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:JNPR) to using Valdero software offers compelling evidence of the need among companies to improve their ability to monitor, understand and respond to changes across their extended supply chains.

In keeping with its history of continuous innovation, Petaluma, Calif.-based AFC, the country's number two supplier of Integrated Multiservice Access Platforms (IMAPs) for the telecommunications industry, is implementing Valdero in order to improve collaboration and communication with its contract manufacturers and suppliers.

"AFC selected Valdero's solution because it allows the company to strengthen the performance of its existing investment in enterprise supply chain technology by eliminating any gaps between planning and execution," said Jeffrey Rosen, Vice president of operations. "At the end of the day, it all comes down to total customer satisfaction. Valdero's solutions help ensure that core value."

Aspect Communications, the undisputed leader of the contact center industry for over 16 years, is working on a program to enable it to refine its manufacturing and continue to provide the highest levels of service to its customers.

"Aspect believes in making business operations as efficient as possible and our products do that for companies. We are always seeking ways to refine our own operations as well," said Kathy Tyra, Aspect's vice president of operations. "Valdero's solution helps us gain further insight into our supply chain operations, making them more efficient and thereby allowing us to further increase our focus on customers."

A leading supplier of IP infrastructure systems, Juniper Networks has implemented Valdero software to give it a comprehensive view of its supply chain operations.

"Valdero takes Juniper Networks' supply chain excellence to the next level through continuous awareness, analysis and action," said Michael Dodd, vice president of Operations for Juniper Networks. "With Valdero, we have the concise and complete, real time information we need to maintain our high standards for operational performance and customer service across the entire supply chain."

"By offering real-time performance management for the extended supply chain, Valdero is closing the functionality gap created by inadequate integration across supply chain systems and participants," said Bruce Richardson, senior vice president of Research with AMR Research. "The upshot is that companies now have the opportunity to recapture millions of dollars in latent cost savings and revenue potential from the supply chain. In a broader context, Valdero is one of a handful of next-generation companies demonstrating a more sophisticated understanding of customers' problems through its focus on deriving greater ROI and long-term value from core business processes, rather than interchangeable applications."

Supply Chain Control is an emerging industry that delivers dramatic inventory-related cost reductions and performance improvements across outsourced or "extended" manufacturing supply chains, such as those typically used by high-tech manufacturers. Valdero's Intelligent Supply Chain Control platform allows companies to realize significant ROI in a matter of weeks by making it easy for them to continuously monitor and analyze activities and changes across all participants in the extended supply chain, and by recommending the best course of action.

About Valdero

Valdero Corporation (www.valdero.com) is the leading provider of enterprise-class software solutions for Intelligent Supply Chain Control. Valdero gives companies the visibility and control to address daily changes in the extended supply chain, allowing them to minimize inventories, manage shortages and fulfill customer orders. Valdero supply chain control solutions proactively and continuously identify day-to-day changes in the supply chain, analyze their impact and guide businesses to action. Founded in 2000, Valdero has corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

Valdero is a trademark of Valdero Corporation. All other brand, product, and company names used herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.