Intentia Unveils Movex MRO, Next-Generation e-collaboration Solution for Equipment Maintenance and Repair Service Providers.

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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. & STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Sept. 5, 2001

Vertical Industry Enterprise Application Suite Integrates Data

Warehousing, Web Portal, Supply Chain and CRM Functionality to Generate New Revenue Streams, Increase Customer Service and Retention

Through Predictive MRO Programs

Intentia International AB (publ) (XSSE: INT B) announces the availability of Movex MRO, a fully-integrated e-collaboration software suite designed to enable maintenance, repair and overhaul service providers to offer innovative new service and maintenance options to customers who choose to outsource MRO operations.

The vertical industry solution is also well suited to companies that provide aftermarket service, as well as internal maintenance departments operating as profit centers.

Movex MRO is configured specifically to meet the quality and regulatory requirements of maintenance and repair shops serving the aviation, automotive, rail, transportation, and other heavy equipment industries. The application is built on Intentia's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) backbone and enhances it with powerful, scalable database and data warehouse functionality, Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Management applications, and a Web portal that enables information flow and e-collaboration between MRO service providers and their customers and suppliers. Movex MRO is available in 24 languages, handles multi-currency transactions, and can be configured to run on IBM iSeries Server, Microsoft Windows NT with SQL Server or DB/2 database, and Sun Solaris platforms.

MRO: The Next Generation

In the aviation industry, MRO has long been a top priority, with airlines' maintenance activities being heavily regulated by stringent industry standards and the FAA. However, global expansion, consolidation and tighter profit margins have resulted in increased outsourcing of airline MRO operations. In the rail, truck and other transportation industries, faced with similar business challenges, a purely tactical approach to MRO is no longer cost-effective. As new technologies, such as onboard computers, continue to emerge, the trend is less towards routine preventive maintenance and more towards monitoring and on-condition maintenance.

In some cases, these companies are moving towards strategic collaborative partnerships, contracting with qualified MRO shops to assume complete responsibility for their equipment, including preventive maintenance, equipment monitoring, spare parts logistics, component exchange, repairs and overhaul.

According to Hakan Rosvall, Industry Manager, MRO & Aviation, "Progressive companies today are taking a more strategic view of capital equipment maintenance. They have come to regard MRO less as an unwelcome cost and more as an asset management investment that results in better customer service and higher equipment availability. In today's global economic climate, especially, the true cost of maintenance is not the expense of the maintenance itself, but the cost of loss of availability of the equipment. Maximum uptime is critical to remaining competitive, and that's what Movex MRO was developed to facilitate."

Karl Sheffer, Intentia Americas' business consultant for MRO markets, adds: "With the help of advanced MRO technology solutions, MRO service providers now have an opportunity to enter new markets and expand their service offerings to generate new revenue streams and build long-term customer relationships. What capital-intensive businesses require from outsourcing partners is high quality maintenance and repair services, simplicity of tracking equipment maintenance records, and most of all, maximum availability of their equipment. Movex MRO provides the collaborative environment and Web-enabled applications to make that possible."

Among the collaborative applications in Movex MRO are:

- Movex Business Performance Warehouse, a data warehouse-based "executive
dashboard" application that enables measurement of key performance indicators
such as service quality, delivery performance, service profitability and
equipment reliability and availability.

- Movex Corporate Portal, a Web-enabled application that provides real-time
sharing of knowledge and information in a secure, controlled environment,
between MRO service providers and their customers and suppliers. Movex MCP
supports maintenance work order details, serialized equipment history, document
management, engineering order status and more.

- Movex Human Resources & Skill Management, a highly strategic management tool
that creates, records and tracks vital information regarding: service
technician skills, licensing and qualifications; task descriptions;
availability and allocation of properly skilled or certified personnel to
specific production tasks. This application strengthens a service provider's
quality assurance program by ensuring that every department and job is
optimally staffed with employees having the appropriate level of skill,
education and training.

- Movex Advance Production Planning, a flexible application that provides
strategic maintenance sequencing and scheduling designed to optimize asset
management and equipment availability. By tightly integrating two key business
processes - maintenance and the core operation - within the Enterprise Resource
Planning solution, Movex APP enables users to create flexible and realistic
schedules that result in maximum resource utilization with minimal disruption
to operations.

- Movex Resource and Material Planning, a powerful tool for ensuring that the
service provider has all the necessary components and materials, equipment and
personnel to schedule, complete and deliver an order by the promised due date.
This synchronization of materials and resources helps to maximize productivity,
avoid scheduling overload, eliminate or reduce excess inventories and
work-in-process, and improve customer service.

About Intentia

Over the past few years, Intentia International AB has concentrated on positioning itself to meet the demands it anticipated would arise from the new e-economy and which are already surfacing. Intentia has developed its Movex product from a traditional ERP system to a complete e-collaboration solution that can manage all the demands of the new economy. Movex offers Intentia's customers the key to success, with its applications for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Planning and Execution (SCPE), Partner Relationship Management (PRM), Business Performance Management (BPM) and e-business.

Intentia is well positioned to respond to market needs when the e- (electronic) evolves into c- (collaboration), and is working hard to satisfy customers through its organization of more than 3,800 professionals serving in excess of 3,500 customers in over 40 countries around the world. Intentia is a public company traded at the Stockholm Stock Exchange (XSSE) under the symbol INT B.

For more information about Intentia and Movex MRO in North America, please call 1.800.SW.MOVEX or 847.762.0900. Or write to Intentia Americas, 1700 East Golf Road, 9th Floor, Schaumburg, IL 60173. Or, visit Intentia's Website at www.intentia.com.