New Release of i2 Factory Planner Offers Improved User Experience, Increased Planner Productivity

• Press Release
• Source: i2 Technologies, Inc.
• On 9:00 am EDT, Wednesday October 21, 2009

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--i2 Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITWO - News) today announced the release of version 6.3.4 of i2 Factory Planner, the world’s most widely deployed factory planning solution for maximizing schedule adherence, reducing lead times, lowering inventory, and reducing overtime and premium shipments.

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This latest release focuses on improving the user experience and increasing planner productivity. New features include:

• A plan performance dashboard, enabling planners to quickly review and understand key capacity, material and order-related metrics
• A master planning dashboard providing time-phased integrated views of demand, capacity, and materials, allowing for rapid planner correlations between the three variable streams
• A workflow-oriented user experience for problem identification, plan comparison, and problem resolution, reducing analysis and resolution time
• A new planning algorithm for enhanced synchronization of capacity, improved material assignment and reduction of work-in-process inventory, allowing for improved plan quality and optimization turnaround time

“This release of i2 Factory Planner focuses on significant improvements in usability, closed-loop workflows and quick availability of information to make feasible material, capacity and order-performance related decisions,” said Aamer Rehman, vice president of Manufacturing Solutions, i2. “Each of these enhancements represents an opportunity to reduce non-value added planning activities in factory operations. The key theme of this and our ongoing enhancements is to enable ease-of-use, improved decision-making, visibility of key metrics and closed-loop planning using a plan-do-check-act paradigm.”

About i2

Throughout its more than 20-year history of innovation and value delivery, i2 has dedicated itself to building successful customer partnerships. As a full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of consulting, technology, and managed services. i2 solutions are pervasive in a wide cross-section of industries. Learn more at www.i2.com.

i2 Cautionary Language

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including forward-looking statements regarding i2’s management team and its ability to deliver results to i2’s customers worldwide. 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 Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2009 and the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008. i2 expressly disclaims any current intention to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.

i2 Corporate Communications
Beth Elkin, 469-357-4225
beth_elkin@i2.com