FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 28, 2007

CINCINNATI, OH, U.S.A. – Supply Dynamics, LLC, a leading supply chain professional services firm, announces a complete redesign of features in its flagship OASIS software. OASIS provides critical decision support information to Original Equipment Manufacturers by aggregating data from the OEM’s supply chain partners, and then generates actionable reports of raw material demand and availability throughout the supply chain using sophisticated forecasting and inventory planning algorithms.

“Our OASIS product, now in its fifth generation, has been designed from the ground-up to restore visibility and control into an OEM’s extended supply chain,” said Geoffrey Wu, Manager of Development at Supply Dynamics. “Because OEMs generally outsource the vast majority of their finished parts, and because up to 60 percent of the costs of a finished part are in the raw material inputs, it is imperative that those OEMs have visibility into, and control of, that crucial aspect of their business. Through OASIS, Supply Dynamics can provide visibility down to the actual alloys and elements in the supply chain. And that is information that is essential to timely, effective business decisions in today’s highly volatile market.”

The system generates reports that show not only what the aggregate demand for a particular alloy and size is across the supply chain, but also when and if that material has been purchased by a supplier to meet an OEM’s schedule. It accounts for the lead times in material acquisition, manufacturing and transportation, and immediately lets the OEM know that there is a potential problem with a sub-tier’s inventory level that could prevent on-time delivery of parts. “That’s actionable data that OEMs have been missing for years,” said Travor Stansbury, President of Supply Dynamics.

The latest version of OASIS adds to this core functionality by providing user customizable dashboards that aggregate and display data from not just the OASIS system  but from other industry sources. “The dashboards show program KPIs as well as industry news feeds, element pricing graphs, element versus alloy trends, and other valuable information,” Stansbury said. “It becomes a true portal of information about raw material, both for your specific supply chain, and for the industry in general.”

OASIS is offered in a Software-as-a-Service licensing model. It is hosted by Supply Dynamics and there is no software or hardware for the customer to install or manage. In addition to OASIS, Supply Dynamics offers several other value-added services, such as part coding, transition process consulting, material demand aggregation solutions, training, and custom software development.

About Supply Dynamics: Supply Dynamics is the leading provider of material consolidation solutions know as “Material Demand Aggregation.” Located in Cincinnati Ohio, Supply Dynamics utilizes proprietary processes and IT solutions to provide OEM customers with real time visibility and control over the materials that go into their finished parts – especially the materials that go into the parts made by their Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. Provided in a hosted “software as a service” model, the Supply Dynamics multi-enterprise platform exchanges critical to quality data with virtually any number of legacy MRP/ERP systems, providing customers with a single, unified view of how finished part materials are impacting their business. Our suite of web based tools and reports allow customers to instantly forecast and negotiate common materials and monitor the timely order and supply of materials across their extended supply chain. This enables an OEM and its supply partners to know that materials being produced, ordered and delivered are synchronized with actual finished part demand. It also allows the OEM to measure on-time delivery of raw materials to production sites and sub-tier suppliers, to standardize materials and to identify users for surplus, excess and obsolete materials. Material Demand Aggregation is applicable to numerous industries providing a means for OEMs to coordinate the actions of each link in the supply chain and dramatically improving efficiency and predictability of supply. (www.supplydynamics.com)

For more information, please contact Trevor Stansbury at (513) 965-2000..