BURLINGTON, MA, May 23, 2002—Schneider Logistics, a global provider of supply chain technology and outsourced logistics services, has deployed business intelligence from Cognos to enable its internal teams and customers to turn supply chain information into competitive advantage. Green Bay, Wis.-based Schneider Logistics manages supply chain execution for some of the world's largest companies including General Motors Service Parts Operation and Thomson Multimedia. The company depends on instant access to information to help its customers lower distribution costs, reduce inventory, and improve supply chain performance.

With Cognos business intelligence, Schneider Logistics' teams and its customers are able to turn supply chain event information into cost saving and cost-avoidance strategies, as well as uncover and analyze operational trends and bottlenecks within the underlying supply chain processes. At the heart of the Schneider Logistics business intelligence solution, is a Cognos-based global customer extranet that provides users with 3,500 reports based on 650 gigabytes of data and more than 100,000 pages of information each day.

"Within our customers' complex global supply chains, access to information surrounding movements and events is often more valuable than the underlying parts or inventory, and Cognos business intelligence delivers," said John Hasenzahl, director, Knowledge Services & Data Management, Schneider Logistics. "Cognos performs extremely well in our environment, providing us with the performance, scalability, and Unix^® support that allows us to continue to deliver new business intelligence solutions to manage and grow our customer base."

Cognos Series 7 is at work in some of the most demanding, high-performance customer sites in the world. Using a Sun Microsystems' Solaris™ 8 system and Sun Fire™ 4800 server, equipped with UltraSPARC^® III 750 MHz chips, Cognos proved in performance benchmarking tests to support a minimum of 16,000 named users with a mixed processing response time of less than nine seconds. (See white paper: http://www.cognos.com/products/solaris_scalability.pdf)

"Customers around the world turn to Sun Microsystems because of the proven scalability, availability, and reliability of our architecture in mission-critical environments. Cognos business intelligence solutions, combined with Sun systems, provides joint customers with a superior business solution that drives a competitive advantage," said Shahram Moradpour, senior director of Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc.

"Cognos zero-footprint, Web-optimized solutions ensure that organizations like Schneider Logistics are able to serve up information to their rapidly growing extended enterprise without bottlenecks or performance issues," said Peter Griffiths, senior vice president, products, Cognos.

Importantly for customers, Cognos Series 7 delivers a stateless application specifically designed for Extranets. "Unlike some competitive solutions, Cognos solutions are tested based on real world scalability and performance scenarios focusing on concurrent users—users actually stressing the system by performing actions. Some competitive solutions are impacted by users idling or reading information, while Cognos solutions are not. As a result of our focus on scalability, our solutions allow customers to rapidly scale as their business grows."

About Schneider Logistics

Schneider Logistics is a global leading logistics provider that helps customers extract strategic business value from their supply chains in the form of lower distribution costs, reduced inventory, improved customer service, and increased working capital. The company provides Fortune 1,000 companies with a range of supply chain solutions including supply chain engineering, supply chain management technologies and outsourced logistics services.

Schneider Logistics is a wholly owned subsidiary of Schneider National Inc., North America's leading provider of premium transportation services.

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