COCA-COLA AMATIL GETS "THE REAL THING" WITH CA-PRMS; Saves Subsidiaries 20 Percent In Operational Costs By Signing Global License For CA's Manufacturing And Distribution Software.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 1996--Coca-Cola Amatil, the Sydney-based international bottler of Coca-Cola products, is saving its subsidiaries 20 percent in operational costs by signing a global license for CA-PRMS, CA's manufacturing and distribution software for the IBM AS/400 platform.

Coca-Cola Amatil has already installed CA-PRMS in five countries, and may roll out the product in the 11 other countries where it has offices. "We need it immediately for sites in Europe, and we are now implementing CA-PRMS in Indonesia, where we are looking forward to strong growth over the next five years," said Ron Chambers, chief information officer at Coca-Cola Amatil.

The global license, which gives Coca-Cola Amatil unlimited flexibility to implement CA-PRMS across its operations, will allow the company to better manage its inventory and improve its forecasting. Management will be able to compare at a glance how its various subsidiaries are performing.

Coca-Cola Amatil does business in 165 countries across 3 continents with a consumer population of some 365 million people. It is the second largest bottler of Coca-Cola trademarked products in the world, with sales of 3.3 billion litres in 1995. In Australia, where it has a 60 percent share of the soft drink market, Coca-Cola Amatil has eight manufacturing and more than 70 distribution sites, each with different products and distribution requirements.

Coca-Cola Amatil selected CA-PRMS after extensively evaluating manufacturing software solutions for the AS/400. It found that CA-PRMS performed superbly against an extensive selection criteria that included stability, reliability and global availability and support, including the ability to perform in national languages as diverse as Bahasa-Indonesian and Hungarian. Coca-Cola Amatil is currently running CA-PRMS on nine AS/400 computers.

"Our manufacturing and distribution efficiencies are significantly enhanced by the effective application of tools such as CA-PRMS," said Chambers. "We need just the right amount of raw material and finished goods to meet the market demand, and we use forecasting and Distribution Requirements Planning to achieve this. Our operations are so large that we are very dependent upon software like CA-PRMS."

Coca-Cola Amatil also chose CA-PRMS to implement a world class metrics system. The company's Towards World Class program looks at production, distribution and logistics to set constant measurement at both the micro and macro level within the Coca-Cola infrastructure. This provides multi-faceted benchmarks for all aspects of its business, such as production line efficiency and truck utilization. "The control and knowledge which CA-PRMS provides is key to this process," said Chambers.

Coca-Cola Amatil is rapidly implementing CA-PRMS to meet worldwide demand for Coca-Cola products. "We know that CA-PRMS will be an extremely important element of our demand management process," said Chambers.

Australian-based and managed Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd. is one of the world's largest manufacturers and marketers of cold, non-alcoholic beverages, and is the market leader in most of the countries in which it does business. The company is one of the largest licensees of The Coca-Cola Company, and is the world's most geographically diverse "Coca-Cola" bottling company, operating in 16 countries on three continents, serving a population of some 365 million people.

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include systems and database management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has 9,000 people in 130 offices in 36 countries and had revenue of $3.2 billion in calendar year 1995. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web or emailing [e-mail]. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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