i2 Presents Web Seminar on Achieving Lean Management across the Extended Supply Chain.

DALLAS -- A complimentary web seminar titled "i2 Multi-Enterprise Interactive: Achieving Lean Management Across the Extended Supply Chain" will be hosted by i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO) on Thursday, June 22 at 11 a.m. EDT. Executives from i2, ViaSat, and AMR Research will address the challenge of achieving multi-enterprise control in industries characterized by multiple and varied trading partner relationships and initiatives.

Michael Levi, i2 director of Solutions Marketing and ViaSat's Ray Barger, director of Procurement will discuss how i2 Multi-Enterprise Interactive has enabled ViaSat to leverage supply chain innovation as a competitive weapon to reduce suppliers, better respond to customers, and focus on metrics-based, demand-driven performance. Bill Swanton, vice president, Research of AMR Research will outline the fundamental differences between enterprise and multi-enterprise management, as well as Demand-Driven Supply Network (DDSN) principles as they relate to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

During this web seminar participants will learn how:

--supply chain innovation can be both a growth strategy and a competitive weapon

--the outsourcing/specialization model has refocused efforts from enterprise management to multi-enterprise coordination and management

--to achieve lean execution across outsourced networks

--achieving a single version of the truth is critical to effective supply chain collaboration

--to build demand-driven supply networks (DDSN)

--to realize business benefits from demand responsiveness

--ViaSat reinvented its supply chain through its rollout of i2 Multi-Enterprise Interactive

--to gain closed-loop control to counteract the bullwhip effect of the demand signal

--to facilitate internal and external cultural change associated with multi-enterprise control

--to understand the performance metrics of global supply chains

This web seminar is part of the i2 series highlighting customers and partners discussing business challenges such as increasing visibility across their supply chains, collaborating with suppliers and buyers on critical supply chain issues, reducing inventories, increasing service level performance and customer satisfaction, and improving asset utilization and inventory turns. To register, please visit: http://events.reflectsystems.com/clients/i2/20060622/.

About i2

i2 helps business leaders make better supply chain decisions. i2's flexible next-generation solutions are designed to synchronize demand and supply across ever-changing global business networks. i2's innovative supply chain management tools and services are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.