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For Immediate
Release
UMC Allies with i2 to Enhance "MY UMC" Customer
Supply Chain Solution
DALLAS and SUNNYVALE,
CA — October 23, 2000 — i2 Technologies, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ITWO), the leading provider of intelligent e-business
and marketplace solutions, and UMC (NYSE: UMC), a global leader
in semiconductor foundry services, announced today the live
implementation of i2 TradeMatrix Demand Planner™, Supply
Chain Planner™ and Demand Fulfillment™ in
the UMC foundry's newly released My UMC customer portal (my.umc.com).
With this fully integrated
planning and execution system, UMC is able to improve customer
service significantly while reducing supply chain costs.
UMC has implemented i2 TradeMatrix™ Solutions to accomplish
several of its most critical e-business objectives. The resulting
system is designed to allow visibility across multiple fabs
and assembly/test facilities, corporate-wide demand allocation
and resource rationalization, intelligent planning that enables
optimal usage of capacities and automated multiple-fab sourcing
decisions, and rapid response to order inquiry and promising
processes to improve customer services.
"We are now able to match customer order requirements in
real-time to available capacity across multiple fabs, providing
an optimal sourcing solution. This is far superior to
the capabilities of the conventional decision support tools
used in the industry," said Chris Bettis, vice president of
UMC USA who leads Central Planning and Customer Service for
the USA sales office. "We are able to create competitive
advantages by incorporating i2's industry-leading semiconductor
supply chain solutions with UMC's unique foundry knowledge
and expertise."
With the integrated planning environment powered by i2, UMC's
critical demand management supply planning and order fulfillment
business processes are designed to operate on an event-driven
basis. This enables UMC planners to identify chain-wide
problems that impact customer orders immediately, and resolve
these issues quickly and effectively. As a result, it
is anticipated that order confirmation lead-time will be reduced
from days to hours or minutes.
"We are excited that leading semiconductor foundry UMC, has
adopted i2's solutions as the backbone for its build-to-order
fulfillment capability. The rapid deployment and value creation
across UMC's global operations will enhance its world-class
foundry services," said Bruce Jacquemard, i2 senior vice president,
High Tech Business Unit. "With these systems in place, UMC
has now built the foundation to meet its e-business objectives."
About i2
i2 is creating real value for its global e-business
customers through its i2 TradeMatrix solutions, content and
marketplace platform. i2 TradeMatrix allows businesses to
create both private and public marketplaces, while improving
the efficiencies of all participants. i2 provides a wide variety
of collaborative e-business services for both the early stages
and the next generation of e-business adoption, with each
service supported by decision optimization, transaction management
and content management solutions. Founded in 1988, i2's mission
is to deliver $75 billion in value to its customers by 2005.
i2 is headquartered in Dallas, has more than 5,000 employees
and maintains offices worldwide. Visit i2 at www.i2.com.
i2 and the i2 logo
design are registered trademarks of i2 Technologies, Inc.
i2 TradeMatrix, Trade Matrix, i2 TradeMatrix Demand Planner™, i2 TradeMatrix Supply
Chain Planner™ and i2 TradeMatrix Demand Fulfillment™
are trademarks
of i2 Technologies, Inc.
i2
Cautionary Language
This press release may contain forward-looking
statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including
the customer's ability to implement i2 solutions successfully
or to achieve benefits attributable to i2 products.
For a discussion of factors which could impact i2's financial
results and cause actual results to differ materially from
those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's
recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K filed
March 22, 2000 and Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2000.
Note From UMC Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in the foregoing announcement
are forward looking within the meaning of the U.S. Federal
Securities laws, including statements about future outsourcing,
wafer capacity, technologies, business relationships and market
conditions. Investors are cautioned that actual events
and results could differ materially from these statements
as a result of a variety of factors, including conditions
in the overall semiconductor market and economy; acceptance
and demand for products from UMC; and technological and development
risks.
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