Enterprise solution industry leaders join together to sell, market, and provide consulting and technical support for i2 Cynamic Value Chain Management solutions
i2 Technologies Japan, Inc., the leading provider of dynamic value chain management solutions, and Toyo Engineering Corporation (TEC), a leading Japanese company specializing in plant engineering and e-business solutions, today announced a strategic business alliance in which TEC intends to resell the entire suite of i2 value chain solutions including Supply Chain Management, Supplier Relationship Management and Customer Relationship Management to the Japanese market.
TEC and i2 also plan to conduct joint marketing, consulting, and support of i2 dynamic value chain management solutions to provide customer-centric service to Japanese companies. With its abundant experience and success in e-business consulting for a variety of Japanese companies, TEC plans to focus its reselling efforts of i2 solutions within industries such as chemical, pharmaceutical, food and beverage, automotive, distribution, manufacturing and others.
"Toyo Engineering Corporation is one of the largest system integrators in Japan and a very high-profile company in the high tech industry," said Sam Nakane, i2 chief operating officer. "We are very pleased to partner with TEC as together we can further strengthen both of our companies' commitment to customer satisfaction."
TEC is a pioneer of Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain Management in the Japanese market, and has been offering supply chain consulting, systems integration, and maintenance and operation services to many established Japanese companies. i2's value chain management solutions enable companies to dynamically manage variability of supply and demand within and across enterprises through increased visibility. Gaining visibility across a value chain facilitates strategic decision-making and the opportunity to act quickly, resulting in inventory and cost reductions.
The combination of TEC's consulting and systems integration experience with i2's market- leading technology helps ensure customer success by providing optimal solutions to power joint customers' decision-making processes and improve business strategies.
"Being competitive, collaboration with others are indispensable," said Yoshitaka Ogata, TEC Managing Director. "We look forward to a strong partnership with i2. I'm sure that i2 dynamic value chain management solutions and TEC's project management skills and its experiences make any kind of business models possible."
About TEC
The mission of Toyo Engineering Corporation is to ensure the satisfaction and success of clients through the provision of effective total solution. It's corporate policy is to play a significant and meaningful role in the global community resulting in the generation of appropriate profit levels allowing the company to make a contribution to all its stakeholders, including shareholders and clients.
The company's operational areas range from the engineering, procurement and construction of various kinds of industrial and manufacturing plants and facilities and their related technical services to the provision of management and business consultation and master plans based on Information Technology and the execution of systems design and development project, e-Solutions.
About i2
For more than a decade, i2 has been a leader in supply chain management. i2 has extended its technology and expertise to Dynamic Value Chain Management-solutions to help companies collaborate on decision-making processes not only across functions within a single company, but across multiple companies. i2 solutions span the value chain interactions, including customer relationship management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Established in 1988, i2 is the only software solutions provider that measures, audits, and reports total value provided to its customers, with a mission to deliver $75 billion in value by 2005. Learn more at www.i2.com. i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
i2 Cautionary Language
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including forward looking statements regarding the customer's ability to implement i2 solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions, and the success of i2's partnership with TEC. For a discussion of factors identified by i2 that could cause actual results to differ materially from those forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K filed April 1, 2002. Additionally, i2 assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statement contained in this news release.
Apr. 22, 2002