Airborne Logistics Services Deploys webMethods' Integration Solutions to Increase Order Processing Efficiencies.

Business/Technology Editors

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2001

webMethods B2B Provides An Open-Standard Platform that

Enables Airborne Customers to Automate Inventory Order Processes

webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), the leading provider of integration software solutions, today announced that Airborne Logistics Services (ALS), a division of ABX Air, Inc. (Airborne's airline subsidiary) (NYSE: ABF), has implemented webMethods B2B(TM) to allow its customers to rapidly exchange order processing information. webMethods' integration solutions allow ALS customers to instantly send order information directly to the ALS warehousing facilities, enabling ALS to more rapidly fulfill order requests. This delivers significant time savings, enabling ALS to guarantee next-day delivery for orders received late in the evening.

Airborne Logistics Services provides a full spectrum of logistics and outsourcing options throughout the United States and around the world. Strategically located at Airborne's national hub and wholly owned airport in Wilmington, Ohio, ALS warehousing facilities allow customers to stock their inventory, allowing product to be available within hours. To reduce order fulfillment turn-around time, ALS implemented webMethods' integration software, which allows customers to communicate shipping requests directly to the warehouse. In some cases, this reduces turn-around time by as much as four hours over previous methods.

"We selected webMethods' integration solutions to tightly integrate our customers' procurement applications with ALS's back-end, ERP systems in a very short order of time--roughly 2-3 months," said Leo Kosenkranius, ITS Project Manager for Airborne Logistics Services. "webMethods delivered, and as a result, our customers can now benefit from using the Internet to communicate with us in real-time. Thanks to this immediate transfer of information, ALS can process the order, find the product, and get it on the way to its destination much faster than ever before."

webMethods' integration solutions support numerous standards and protocols for exchanging information. This architecture also allows for growth of the network and the adaptation of the solution to other uses.

"The ALS deployment is a clear example of how webMethods' integration solutions enable companies to strengthen relationships with customers and increase bottom-line benefits through fully integrated business processes," said Catherine Brown, vice president, Industry Solutions for webMethods. "By deploying webMethods' integration solutions, ALS is using an open, standards-based platform to automate customer communications, thus more rapidly meeting customer requirements. In addition, ALS is leveraging a scaleable integration platform that can easily adapt or augment the deployment for other initiatives throughout the company, such as connections to other exchanges."

About Airborne Express, Inc.

For more than 50 years, Airborne Express (NYSE:ABF) and its subsidiaries have served the shipping needs of business customers around the world. Today, Airborne offers total distribution solutions by providing time-sensitive delivery of documents, letters, small packages, and freight to virtually every U.S. ZIP code and more than 200 countries. Customers can select from a variety of services including same-day, next-morning, next afternoon or second-day delivery, air express and freight, ocean service, and logistics management.

About webMethods, Inc.

webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEBM) is the leading provider of integration software solutions for Global 2000 corporations, major B2B exchanges and leading software application vendors. The webMethods integration platform allows customers to achieve quantifiable R.O.I. by linking business processes, enterprise and legacy applications, databases and workflows both within and across enterprises. By deploying the webMethods integration platform, customers reduce costs, create new revenue opportunities, strengthen relationships with customers, substantially increase supply chain efficiencies and streamline internal business processes.

Founded in 1996, webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. webMethods has more than 550 customers worldwide--from Global 2000 leaders such as Citibank, Dell, Eastman Chemical, The Ford Motor Company, Grainger, Motorola and Starbucks to major industry-backed exchanges like ForestExpress, eHITEX/Converge and PetroCosm. webMethods' strategic partners include Ariba, Broadvision, Commerce One, Deloitte Consulting, EDS, i2 Technologies, J.D. Edwards, KPMG Consulting, Microsoft, Oracle Corp., SAP AG and Siebel Systems. More information about the company can be found at www.webMethods.com.

webMethods and webMethods B2B are trademarks of webMethods, Inc. All other company and product names are property of their respective owners.

This press release contains various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of webMethods that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The actual results of webMethods may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including those discussed in the Risk Factors section of webMethods' recent Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2000, as amended, which is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.