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RedPrairie WMS Offers Complete Raw Materials Visibility for CPG, Food and Beverage Companies

Solution provides greater Insight into the production of goods, providing traceability and improved consumer confidence

Milwaukee, WI – RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, announced today that its Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) offers complete raw material controls throughout production and through finished goods, resulting in reduced waste and improved customer confidence for consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and beverage companies.

“A recent Food Marketing Institute study found only 66 percent of shoppers are confident that the food they buy at the grocery store is safe compared to 82 percent last year,” said Tom Kozenski, Vice President of Product Strategy for RedPrairie. “We believe improved raw materials control and traceability throughout the Supply Chain will have a positive impact on consumer confidence and our customer’s brands. We’re proud of our 30-plus-year track record improving warehouse and workforce utilization, inventory accuracy, and product traceability to the CPG, Food and Beverage industries.”


ICG Commerce To Deliver Global Indirect Procurement Outsourcing Services To Chiquita Brands International

Agreement Expected To Help Chiquita Reduce Costs While Focusing On Delivering Healthy, Convenient, Fresh Foods To Customers

PHILADELPHIA - Monday, August 27, 2007 - ICG Commerce, the leading procurement
outsourcing specialist, today announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with Chiquita
Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB), one of the world’s leading marketers and distributors
of high-quality fresh and value-added food products, to provide Procurement outsourcing
services. Under the terms of the contract, ICG Commerce will assist Chiquita with managing
indirect spend areas, including transportation, marketing, MRO (maintenance, repair and

Customer News

Leading Beverage Company Reduces “Time to Hire” by 50 Percent with UltiPro Recruitment

Weston, FL, August 15, 2007 — Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI), a leading provider of end-to-end strategic human resources, payroll, and talent management solutions, announced today that its customer Silver Eagle Distributors, L.P., the largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the nation, has cut its “time to hire” in half with Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Recruitment.

Silver Eagle’s HR team had been manually processing 300 to 500 job applications each week before the company went “live” on Ultimate Software’s UltiPro Recruitment in 2005. An Ultimate Software customer since 1997 using core UltiPro to manage its HR, benefits, and Payroll functions, Silver Eagle selected Ultimate Software’s talent acquisition solution because the beverage distributor had years of history with Ultimate Software’s quality product and services. Since going live with UltiPro Recruitment through Intersourcing, Silver Eagle is experiencing business benefits such as:

Customer News

Frozen Food Express Announces New Independent Director and Formation of Nominating Committee

DALLAS, Aug 15, 2007 (PrimeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Frozen Food Express Industries (Nasdaq:FFEX) announced today that Barrett D. Clark of Breckenridge, Texas has been appointed to its Board of directors. As a Class I director, it is expected that Mr. Clark will be a nominee for election by shareholders at the company's 2008 annual meeting for a full three-year term. The appointment brings the number of independent directors on the nine-person Board to six. Mr. Clark will sit on the board's Compensation Committee.
Mr. Clark, age 35, is Managing Partner of Clark Cattle Company which runs about 10,000 cattle on approximately 100,000 acres in North Central Texas. He also manages Trinity Real Estate, a land investment and brokerage company that has been involved in the purchase and/or sale of more than 1 million acres in the United States and the Bahamas. Mr. Clark also sits on the oversight Board of Breck Operating, Inc., a privately-owned oil and gas operating company with properties in 17 states and Canada.

Executive Moves

Pulmuone Goes Live With Adexa’s Demand Xpress

Leading food manufacturer on a mission to enhance Customer Service levels

Los Angeles, CA. - August 14, 2007 - Adexa, Inc., the leading provider of integrated supply chain, demand planning and performance management solutions, announced today that Pulmuone of Korea, one of the world’s leading providers of fresh, close-to-nature, food products has gone “live” with Adexa’s Demand Xpress, a complete Demand Planning solution for the Medium Size Businesses.

Pulmuone management team is on a mission to focus on and greatly enhance the Customer Service levels through accurate sales forecasts and faster delivery. “Our target was to revise the demand plan in minutes and deliver our products to the customer within one day.” Said Hakjae Kim, CBM manager of Pulmuone. “DX [Demand Xpress] is an excellent product and Adexa was the only provider who could do it in less than two months, vs. 5 months proposed by others. Adexa had a unique implementation methodology that was very simple and systematic and we had no time to waste!”

Customer News

Flowers Foods Speeds Perishable Baked Goods Through Supply Chain With HighJump Warehouse, Yard and Transportation Management Sys

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. – July 31, 2007 – HighJump Software, a 3M company, a global provider of Supply Chain execution solutions, today announced Flowers Foods is generating strong results from its recent implementation of HighJump warehouse, transportation and yard management systems. With $1.9 billion in 2006 sales, Flowers Foods is a leading producer and marketer of fresh and frozen bakery goods, including top brands like Nature's Own, Cobblestone Mill, Sunbeam, Blue Bird, and Mrs. Freshley's. The company has leveraged its HighJump solutions to increase order fulfillment accuracy to above 99 percent without adding to its labor force.

Customer News

Intervolve Releases DistributionSuite Enhancements for Beverage Wholesalers

New Capabilities Simplify Visibility into Retail Performance
and Administrative Functions
Raleigh, NC—July 25, 2007—Intervolve, Inc., the pioneer in providing Supply Chain software and
services for the beverage industry that leverage web and mobile technologies, today announced reporting
and system administration enhancements to its DistributionSuite™ sales and distribution solution for
beverage wholesalers. The new capabilities expand on the robust capabilities of DistributionSuite to
further simplify visibility into performance at retail and administrative functions, helping beverage

Product News

Wells’ Dairy Selects Prescient to Power Its Vendor Managed Inventory Program

Ice Cream Manufacturer Expands its Prescient Solution Footprint

WEST CHESTER, PENN. – July 16, 2007 – Prescient Applied Intelligence, Inc. (OTCBB: PPID), a leading provider of Supply Chain and advanced commerce solutions for retailers and suppliers, today announced that Wells’ Dairy, Inc. has selected Prescient to power its vendor managed inventory (VMI) initiative. VMI is a program in which the supplier is responsible for proactively managing the replenishment of its retail partners’ inventory levels.

Wells’ Dairy, based in Le Mars, Iowa, is the largest family-owned and managed dairy processor in the United States. The company manufactures Blue Bunny® ice cream, frozen dairy desserts and novelties.

Customer News

Blue Bell Creameries' Sweet Success: Ice Cream Manufacturer Improves Inventory Visibility & Lot Control with ClearOrbit

- Third Largest U.S. Ice Cream Producer Deploys Gemini Mobile Software to Automate Data Collection in High-Volume Production & Distribution Operations -

Austin, Texas – July 11, 2007 – ClearOrbit (www.clearorbit.com), the leading provider of real-time Supply Chain execution and reverse Logistics solutions, today announced that Blue Bell Creameries, one of the country's oldest and best-selling ice cream manufacturers, has implemented its Gemini® mobile software solution for Oracle® Process Manufacturing (OPM). Gemini for OPM has increased Blue Bell's overall operational efficiency by automating data collection, resulting in improved production lot control and traceability throughout the company's primary high-volume production and distribution center in Texas.

Customer News

Parsec TrakSYS™ selected by One of the World’s Largest Food and Beverage Companies

BREA, California – 26 June 2007 – Parsec Automation Corp. (Parsec), the leading worldwide provider of real-time performance management (RPM) and enterprise manufacturing intelligence (EMI), today announced that one of the world’s favorite food manufacturers with global operations signed an agreement to purchase Parsec TrakSYS™, the leading real-time performance management solutions.

With this agreement the customer selected TrakSYS as their Premier real-time performance management solution for implementation in one of their Midwest US sites.

"It is reassuring to see companies investing in future expansion of their production operations and that Parsec thereby is the natural choice for solutions to help increase performance and time-to-market of their products," said Eddy Azad, President and CEO for Parsec.

Customer News

CDC Software Launches Industry’s First Packaged Manufacturing Operations Management System with Real-Time Scheduling

CDC Factory Designed Specifically for Process Manufacturers in Food and Beverage, Consumer Products and Pharmaceuticals Industries
ATLANTA, HONG KONG, June 25, 2007 — CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA) and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today the launch of CDC Factory, the first packaged manufacturing operations management solution that integrates finite factory scheduling, manufacturing execution systems (MES), real-time performance management, quality, maintenance and analytics processes so all users -- from shop floor operators to executive management -- can make real-time actionable decisions throughout the plant and across the enterprise.

Product News

Industry Survey Highlights Need for Spend Intelligence in the Foodservice Industry

REDWOOD CITY, CA (June 20, 2007) –, Instill® Corporation, the leading provider of spend intelligence solutions for the foodservice industry, today announced the results of an industry-wide survey on Purchasing Best Practices for foodservice operators. The results, based on input from almost eighty quick service, chain casual and group purchasing organizations, highlight the primary challenges these organizations face in managing their system wide spending.

Some notable findings from the research include:

Only 19 percent of total respondents said they are “very confident” that their units are paying the contracted price.


Intervolve and Origlio Beverage Team to Solve 4-Tier Distribution Challenges with New Sales and Distribution Software for Bevera

DistributionSuite Provides Wholesalers with Retail Intelligence
for All Distribution Models
Raleigh, NC—June 19, 2007—Intervolve, Inc., the pioneer in providing on demand Supply Chain software
using web and mobile technologies, today announced that it has teamed with Origlio Beverage to
enhance Intervolve’s DistributionSuite to support a 4-tier distribution model. Intervolve’s new web and
mobile solution enables beverage wholesalers to gain a true picture of their distribution at retail across all
channels. No other beverage and consumer packaged goods distribution software company provides this

Company Deals

Nestlá Indonesia renews warehousing and distribution contract with GAC Samudera Logistics

GAC Samudera Logistics (GSL), a joint venture between GAC and Samudera Indonesia Group, has announced its contract renewal with Nestlé Indonesia to manage the international food and beverage company's warehousing and distribution needs in the country.

Under the continuing arrangement, GSL will manage Nestlé's West Java, South Sumatra and West Kalimantan storage and inventory management requirements. As Nestlé has witnessed substantial volume growth and increasing distribution complexities since the existing agreement started in June 2005, GSL is now preparing for a more extensive scope of work for the global brand.

Customer News

New Contract With Birds Eye

Christian Salvesen Foods has won a major new 10 -year contract with Birds Eye to provide pea processing and dedicated Logistics services for Europe’s largest pea processing factory in Hull.

The £10 million investment with Birds Eye will be operational by May 2008 and the project will see the current Christian Salvesen site in Salvesen Way, on the Brighton Street industrial estate, expanded with the addition of a new factory capable of handling more than 50,000 tonnes of processed peas each year.

This latest project strengthens the existing partnership between Salvesen and Birds Eye and provides cold storage, distribution and processing facilities at the factory to be built by Birds Eye. The company and Christian Salvesen Foods have a strong partnership that currently also provides processing and cold storage facilities in Lowestoft – an operation that has been working successfully for more than seven years.

Customer News

CDC Software Ross Enterprise Customer, Litehouse Foods, is Named to the Managing Automation 2007 Progressive Manufacturing 50

ATLANTA, HONG KONG, June 12, 2007 — CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and business services, announced today that it's customer, Litehouse Foods, was selected as a winner of the third annual Progressive Manufacturing 50 Awards Program, selected by Managing Automation, for achieving operational excellence using its Ross Enterprise suite of applications.

The awards program recognizes manufacturers that are progressive in their businesses, in the management of their operations and in their use of advanced technologies. The Progressive Manufacturing 50 Awards Program recognizes 50 companies that have achieved distinction in at least one of the eight core disciplines defined by Managing Automation as critical to business success in the years ahead. These disciplines include: Business Model Mastery, Customer Mastery, Supply Network Mastery, Data & Integration Mastery, Innovation Mastery, Training & Education Mastery, Leadership, and Operational Excellence.


Danone Improves Manufacturing and Supply Chain Performance with ILOG Plant PowerOps

Danone's Mexico Plant moves to integrated planning of intermediate products and finished goods with efficient scheduling of cleaning activities and changeovers

PARIS – June 5, 2007 – ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext; ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) today announced that Groupe Danone, the world's leading maker of fresh dairy products and bottled water and the second largest provider of biscuits and cereal products, has deployed ILOG Plant PowerOps (PPO) at one of its largest fresh dairy plants in Irapuato, Mexico. Thanks to the use of ILOG PPO, the plant has moved from weekly production planning with mixed scheduling quality to daily planning and high-quality scheduling, improving throughput and Customer Service while reducing waste and maximizing shelf life quality.

Customer News

Haggen's Business Managers Get an Analytic Edge With Manthan's ARC Business Intelligence Suite and Teradata's Data Warehouse

Best-of-breed retail Business Intelligence and enterprise Data Warehouse deployed

BOSTON - Haggen Inc, a leading U.S. food and grocery retailer currently operating 32 supermarkets under the Haggen Food & Pharmacy and TOP Food & Drug banners, today announced the successful enterprise-wide deployment of a retail-centric Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solution. Haggen selected Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), to deploy an enterprise-class Data Warehouse and the ARC retail Business Intelligence solution from Manthan Systems to enable analytics and reporting.

The retail Business Intelligence Data Warehouse (BI-DW) solution has been deployed to all 32 Haggen stores across the states of Washington and Oregon. The BI-DW is a joint offering from Manthan Systems and Teradata, developed exclusively for retailers, and comprises a retail-specific Business Intelligence solution and a comprehensive retail data model deployed on an enterprise data warehouse.

Customer News

Softbrands Partners With Food And Beverage Industry Technology Consultants

MINNEAPOLIS – SoftBrands, Inc. (AMEX: SBN), a global supplier of enterprise application software, has partnered with the Elevation Group, a Technology consulting firm for food and beverage companies. SoftBrands is a global ISV partner of SAP.

The Elevation Group will sell, implement and support SoftBrands FourthShift Edition Food & Beverage for SAP Business One, an ERP software system designed specifically for manufacturers in the food and beverage industry. The Elevation Group’s customers are involved in the creation, storage, distribution, transportation, and sale of food and beverage products from production point to the end consumer. The Elevation Group has built functionality specifically to handle many of the concerns facing food and beverage companies, such as daily route management, order guides, Call Center operations, and earned income. With the addition of FourthShift Edition to the company’s Technology lineup, the Elevation Group now has a dedicated offering for food and beverage manufacturers.

Company Deals

Welch’s Selects Prescient to Manage its VMI Solution

Long-Time Prescient Client Adds Hosting Services

WEST CHESTER, PENN. - Prescient Applied Intelligence, Inc. (OTCBB: PPID), a leading provider of Supply Chain and advanced commerce solutions for retailers and suppliers, today announced that Welch’s, headquartered in Concord, Mass., has selected Prescient to host and maintain its entire vendor managed inventory (VMI) program.

Welch's, the world's leading producer of juices, jams and jellies, has been using Prescient’s VMI software since 1999 to replenish regular turn merchandise and promotional items with eight trading partners. The company services over 100 distribution centers with 65 stock keeping units (SKUs).

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