EDS PLM Solutions to Incorporate i2 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Into Teamcenter(TM)

Solution to Enhance Collaboration With Suppliers to Drive Down Costs And Accelerate Time-to-Market

PLANO, Texas, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS (NYSE:EDS) today announced that its EDS PLM Solutions line of business will couple the i2 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions into its Teamcenter(TM) product lifecycle management (PLM) software suite.

This new web-centric capability from the i2 SRM solution will enhance Teamcenter's ability to enable companies to collaborate with suppliers, more effectively bridging the part selection process in product development with product sourcing. This process will help companies to quickly find, evaluate and select the best new parts and suppliers, and strategically re-use existing parts to help drive down costs and accelerate time-to-market.

"By combining the best-in-class content management and product sourcing capabilities from the i2 Supplier Relationship Management suite from i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITWO) with our market-leading product data management capabilities in Teamcenter, we will offer a solution that integrates product development and design-for-supply requirements," said Bill Carrelli, president, business strategy and marketing, EDS PLM Solut ions. "This new Teamcenter functionality will enable manufacturers to deploy a collaborative product development process that leverages both technical and business decision-making as it integrates engineering, procurement and supply base management."

The Product

- - By incorporating i2 Content, Teamcenter can provide the information necessary for optimal part selection and full product sourcing evaluation. The i2 Reference Content integrates market data into a tailored industry classification scheme and cross-references the data to customer commodity and supplier relationship knowledge.

- - Using the intelligent catalog and advanced Approved Vendor List (AVL) management facilities, Teamcenter will offer an integrated, normalized view of supplier component data to company standards, rather than expecting users to simply link to and make sense of raw supplier data on the web.

- - With i2 Content, part and product information in Teamcenter can be consistently represented and can be viewed in the context of a company's individual supply and commodity strategies. Part sourcing decisions can be made early and correctly during development, reducing
manufacturing changes that occur as a result of part supply and referencing conflicts.

- - Advanced collaboration capabilities within the EDS-i2 PLM solution will allow OEM and outsourced partner component preferences to be merged into one AVL, ensuring least cost supply and minimum production issues.

- - The new Teamcenter functionality will synchronize i2 Product Sourcing information with product definition data and integrate it onto the engineer's desktop CAD tool environment to provide search, find, add-to-CAD capabilities. Current and planned support of leading products includes: Unigraphics(R), I-deas(R), Catia, Pro/ENGINEER, CADENCE and Mentor Graphics.

- - By allowing users to compare alternate part options and view extensive bill-of-material (BOM) profiles, Teamcenter can enable cross-functional product teams to quickly determine optimal product design approaches and provide an extended enterprise with visibility into planned product launches and negotiation opportunities.

- - Customers can tap the operational knowledge in their i2 supply chain
installations to gain demand and inventory data that drives direct materials procurement, spare parts provisioning, configure-to-order pricing and end-user fulfillment or extend their Teamcenter solution with additional i2 Supplier Relationship Management or Supply Chain Management applications.

"Global corporations recognize that their success requires a balance of differentiated product innovation, and operational excellence in product launch and delivery," said Dave Horne, executive vice president, i2. "Best practice development means the ability to leverage preferred suppliers and accurately evaluate commodity management strategies, obsolescence contingencies and in-product cost factors -- early and often throughout the development process. The i2 SRM/Teamcenter combination will be designed to significantly enhance 'best practice development' for leading manufacturing companies worldwide."

About EDS

EDS, the leading global services company, provides strategy, implementation, business transformation and operational solutions for clients managing the business and technology complexities of the digital economy. EDS brings together the world's best technologies to address critical client business imperatives. It helps clients eliminate boundaries, collaborate in new ways, establish their customers' trust and continuously seek improvement. EDS, with its management consulting subsidiary, A.T. Kearney, serves the world's leading companies and governments in 60 countries. EDS reported revenues of $21.5 billion in 2001. The company's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange. 

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