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China's leading steelmaker Baosteel selects ILOG CPLEX for its supply chain planning solution

New Solution Built By FirstTech Reduced Order Delivery Time From Three Weeks To One Week

SHANGHAI, China, March 8, 2006 – ILOG® (NASDAQ: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364) and Shanghai FirstTech Co. Ltd. (FirstTech) today announced that top China steelmaker Baosteel has deployed an Enterprise Master Planning (EMP) solution based on ILOG CPLEX® to help the company with enterprise-wide supply chain planning. Designed and d eveloped by FirstTech , the new planning solution helps Baosteel to shorten order-to-delivery cycle time significantly and decrease the order confirmation time from days to mere seconds. Additionally, the planning cycle time has been reduced from three weeks to one week.

To maintain customer loyalty and stay ahead of the competition, Baosteel began looking for a supply chain solution that could fulfill customer orders faster in a complex environment. Baosteel’s EMP supply chain solution handles more than 10,000 products, which it provides to more than 1,000 customers over a 90-day planning horizon. Previously, the planning method was manual and used Microsoft Excel spreadsheets – an approach that was no longer workable given Baosteel’s rapid business growth and changing customer demands. FirstTech’s new supply chain solution based on ILOG CPLEX allow s Baosteel to perform demand planning, enterprise master planning, order promising and capacity allocation, while considering multiple parameters, such as profit goals, customer tiers, product lines and different factory capacities.

With this planning system, Baosteel can improve the efficiency of its processes can make reliable customer delivery promises, utilize key assets optimally, and reduce the order-to-delivery time. Since the system provides a unified platform, sales distribution and production departments of Baosteel can collaborate more easily to better fulfill the customer demands. With an efficient centralized system in place, Baosteel is looking forward to further expanding its supply chain management capabilites, reaching out to new customers, and setting up new facilities and plants in China and the rest of the world.

FirstTech, a key ILOG partner in China for more than two years, provided development and consulting services for the project . ILOG is well-known for its expertise in supply chain management for more than a decade, and has an established sales, service and support infrastructure worldwide. The Baosteel implementation began in September 2003, went live in November 2004, and began delivering positive results for Baosteel by the first quarter in 2005.

ILOG Optimization Products

More than 1,000 commercial customers, including 160 members of the Global 500, use ILOG optimization tools, engines and applications to solve the world's most challenging planning and scheduling problems. These customers include APL, BNSF, JR East, Logistics, Maersk, Schneider, SNCF, United Airlines, the United States Postal Service and UPS in transportation and logistics; and Airbus, Coors, Dell, Hansol Paper, Michelin, Mitsubishi Chemicals, Nippon Steel, Nissan, Porsche, Saint-Gobain, Thyssen Krupp, and Toyota; and in manufacturing. ILOG optimization products are also used by a majority of leading Supply Chain Management software vendors, including Infor, Manhattan Associates, Manugistics, Oracle, Red Prairie, SAP and SSA Global, as well as in research programs at over 1,000 universities around the world, making the products the “gold standard” for performance and solution quality in the Operations Research community. For more information, please see theILOG Optimization Suite.

About FirstTech

Founded in March 2003, Shanghai FirstTech Co. Ltd. is a joint venture between Baosight Software and First Technologies (Cayman). FirstTech provides professional consulting services and IT solutions to empower our customers’ business operations. FirstTech’s competencies are in those aspects, including Banking, Insurance, Semiconducto r/LCD and Metal. FirstTech has partnered with several world-wide leading companies such as ILOG, Prima Solution, SUN, HP and Bea System. FirstTech has provided the state-of-art rule-based insurance underwriting/claim/billing solution, supply chain management solution, and Semiconductor TCTM ( Total Cycle Time Management ) solution to industry-leading customers including TaiPing Life , BAOSTEEL, Baosteel-NSC/Arcelor Automotive Steel Sheets and HeJian Semiconductor . For more information, please visit www.firsttech-soft.com.

About ILOG

ILOG delivers software and services that empower customers to make better decisions faster and manage change and complexity. Over 2,500 global corporations and more than 465 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's market-leading business rule management system (BRMS), optimization and visualization software components, to achieve dramatic returns on investment, create market-defining products and services, and sharpen their competitive edge. The BRMS market leader, ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 700 people worldwide. For more information, please visit www.ilog.com.



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