Airbus Goes Live with i2 Six; SCM and SRM Solutions Help Airbus Gain Global View of Supplier...

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i2 PLANET 2003

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2003

i2 Technologies, Inc., (OTC: ITWO), a leading provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, today announced that Airbus, one of the world's largest commercial airline manufacturers,

is now live with i2 Supply Chain Management (SCM) and i2 Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions for its Sup@irWorld initiative. By combining i2 SRM and i2 SCM, both implementations are helping Airbus to overcome the complex supply chain challenges inherent in a multinational organization while delivering on its vision of 'one face to the supplier' for all procurement related processes. Airbus is one of the first i2 customers to implement products from i2's latest product release, i2 Six.

The Sup@irWorld Initiative

Sup@irWorld, one of Airbus' top integration projects, aims to provide web-based collaborative tools to enhance working efficiency between Airbus and suppliers. This top-priority project intends to cover all exchanges both for flying and non-flying materials, goods and services and represents the underlying layer behind both the Airbus Supplier Portal and the Procurement channel of the Employee Portal. It will act as both the 'backbone' of the Procurement channel in Airbus people and the Airbus supply chain.

Sup@irWorld is comprised of four domains:

-- Buyside: Automating and simplifying the procurement process

for general procurement (from requisition to payment).

-- Supply Chain: Automating and securing forecast, shipment and

invoicing process along with sharing and event information and

collaboration to reduce risks.

-- Sourcing: RFQ and auction to automate and simplify the

sourcing process and enhance negotiation leverage.

-- Foundation: A single, common Airbus referential for all

supplier related data.

The i2 go-lives took place in two of Sup@irWorld's domains: Foundation and Supply Chain. Foundation is live on i2 SRM Strategic Sourcing while Supply Chain is live on i2 Supply Chain Collaboration.

The Foundation Domain: Gaining A Global View of the Supplier Base

i2 SRM forms a cornerstone of the overall Sup@irworld project and has been able to provide Airbus, for the first time, a consolidated and unique view of its supplier base.

More than 70 percent of Airbus' costs are incurred through external suppliers and the Foundation domain holds the relationship between multiple material masters and the Airbus Harmonized Material Group Structure in addition to consolidating data from multiple ERP systems used by Airbus National Companies in France, Germany, UK and Spain.

Future plans include enabling services and processes across Airbus entities, customers and suppliers providing strong multi-functional integration and powerful decision-making support. The solution is also expected to extend and include all procurement activities associated with quality, customer service and contract related data.

The Supply Chain Domain: Presenting One Face to Suppliers

Through the implementation of i2 SCM, Airbus has developed and deployed a real-time collaborative hub to collaborate along the supply chain with its suppliers spanning multiple national companies in France, Germany and UK. This solution covers the expression of requirements through to the delivery of goods and the subsequent invoicing process and is designed to allow suppliers to collaborate on forecasts, purchase orders, advance shipment invoices and invoices. Additionally the company can monitor the progress of shipments after goods have left the supplier.

The principal motivation is the financial situation of the market and impact on Airbus. There is a need for operations to be more efficient with less administrative cost, organisations to be more integrated and an improved sharing of information. The sharing of risk and cost in the aircraft manufacturing process is also an essential aspect. All the actors involved need to have better visibility in order to take advantage of their ability to anticipate and better manage risk.

"The success of these inaugural projects at Airbus is a tribute to the commitment of their management team to the vision they set forth in their Sup@irWorld Initiative," said Sanjiv Sidhu, i2 chairman and CEO. "Airbus Procurement leadership, Manufacturing management and end users all provided continuous participation and excellent support throughout the project, making the achievement of these milestones something we all can be proud of. We are pleased to have been able to deliver these initial business releases on time, on quality and on budget as planned, and are motivated to deliver additional value as we partner with Airbus through subsequent business releases of this project."

About Airbus

A leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive product line on the market, Airbus is a global company with design and manufacturing facilities in France, Germany, the UK, and Spain, as well as subsidiaries in the US, China and Japan. Headquartered in Toulouse, France, Airbus is an EADS joint company with BAE SYSTEMS.

About i2

The leading provider of end-to-end supply chain management solutions, i2 designs and delivers software that helps customers optimize and synchronize activities involved in successfully managing supply and demand. More than 1,000 of the world's leading companies, including seven of the Fortune global top 10, have selected i2 to help solve their most critical supply chain challenges. Founded in 1988 with a commitment to customer success, i2 remains focused on delivering value by implementing solutions designed to provide a rapid return on investment. Learn more at www.i2.com.

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