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Supply & Demand Chain Executive Announces Its 2005 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100

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Supply & Demand Chain Executive Announces Its
2005 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100

Leading Business Magazine Presents Annual Listing of
Top Supply and Demand Chain Vendors

Birmingham, AL, Phoenix, AZ, New York – July 13, 2005 – Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, the executive's user manual for successful supply chain transformation, this week announced the fourth-annual listing of the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 in its June/July 2005 issue.

Four years ago, Supply & Demand Chain Executive announced its first "100" list of supply chain solution providers and other organizations that were helping lead the way in transforming companies' supply and demand chains.

Now, in 2005, Supply & Demand Chain Executive continues the tradition of providing its readers with information about organizations that are leading the way in providing solutions and services for enabling supply chain transformation.

"The Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 is one way in which our magazine tries to help readers navigate the complex landscape of supply and demand chain solutions and service providers," explained Andrew Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. "The '100' list of companies is designed to showcase providers that have completed successful and innovative real-life supply chain implementations, and give our readers a starting place when looking for solutions to their own supply chain pain points."

Supply & Demand Chain Executive's readers have consistently said in surveys that they use Supply & Demand Chain Executive — both the print magazine and SDCExec.com — to learn about new solutions and best practices for enabling the supply chain, to understand trends in supply chain technology, and to benchmark their own companies' enablement initiatives with those of other enterprises across industry verticals.

For this reason, the criteria for this year's "100" feature focus on the end users of supply chain technology to learn how enterprises are working with top solution providers to enable their supply and demand chains.

Based on submissions to the "100" from end users and solution providers, the judging committee for the "100" identified a list of the top supply and demand chain initiatives at small, midsize and large companies in a variety of industry sectors, highlighting the pain point(s) addressed by the initiatives (The Challenge), the technologies and services used to address those pain points (The Solution), the results of the initiatives (Return on Investment, or ROI), and plans for taking the project forward (Next Steps).

Supply & Demand Chain Executive's goal with this year's "100" was to highlight a broad range of applications of technology and services to the challenges of supply chain improvement and transformation. The judging committee particularly sought innovative solutions that represent supply chain challenges at a variety of different types of companies.

Final recipients are featured in the cover story of the June/July 2005 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, as well as online at www.SDCExec.com.

About Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Supply & Demand Chain Executive is the executive's user manual for successful supply chain transformation, utilizing hard-hitting analysis, viewpoints and unbiased case studies to steer supply and demand chain management professionals through the complicated, yet critical, world of supply and demand chain management as competitive advantage. On the Web at www.SDCExec.com.

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