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Managing End-to-End Collaboration Will Enable Leading Third-Party Logistics Provider to Reduce Costs and Deliver New Services Sterling Commerce, the multi-enterprise collaboration company, announced today that OIA Global Logistics, an international third-party logistics provider and supply chain management company, has selected the company's Yantra Supply Chain suite. The Yantra Supply Chain suite will enable OIA Global Logistics to manage its clients' extended supply chains, rapidly bring on new clients, and expand its offerings of outsourced logistics services. Third-party logistics (3PL) companies, such as OIA Global Logistics, function as multi-enterprise communities and need to collaborate with a variety of other organizations in order to succeed. The Yantra Supply Chain suite is business process-centric, highly flexible and built to be deployed in a rapidly changing, multi-client environment. It enables OIA Global Logistics to coordinate, execute and monitor orders and inventory for multiple clients and products across multiple locations and trading partners. By leveraging this rich application functionality and Sterling Commerce's multi-enterprise collaboration strategy, OIA Global Logistics gains real-time visibility into its complex trading community, enabling better decision-making through automating business processes and driving increased revenues through effective collaboration. OIA Global Logistics is experiencing tremendous growth, and for this reason, the company is interested in enhancing their capabilities for on-boarding new customers, as well as broadening their capabilities to meet their customer's evolving business needs. OIA Global Logistics is taking a leadership role in delivering new fourth-party logistics (4PL) services integrated within the business process as added-value offerings. Among others, these services incorporate the management of remote support processes for its clients, including in-line supply procurement, coordination and distribution to manufacturers. In this environment, OIA Global Logistics must collaborate with suppliers, distributors and manufacturers that are located in different countries - a true end-to-end fulfillment process. "Our transportation clients need visibility over transactional shipments and our supply-chain clients depend on OIA to manage sophisticated multi-country, multi-currency and multi-product supply lines," said Daniel McMorris, Director of Marketing and Sales at OIA Global Logistics. "Given this range of logistics requirements and our current growth, OIA wanted to find a way to expand scale and scope while actually increasing control and visibility over our logistics processes. As an addition to OIA's existing infrastructure, Sterling Commerce's Yantra Supply Chain suite enables exactly that." Founded in 1988 and based in Portland, Oregon, OIA Global Logistics has successfully expanded from a traditional freight forwarder into a full service international logistics and supply chain management provider. Its portfolio of services and solutions encompasses everything from one-time shipments to fully integrated and managed supply chain networks. OIA currently provides customized logistics solutions that drive bottom line value for companies with a wide range of logistical complexity. The Yantra Supply Chain suite offers OIA Global Logistics an enhanced service-oriented, multi-client architecture to enable the company to effectively manage existing and new customers' business processes, integration and reporting needs while rapidly adapting to changes. "3PLs are aggressively leveraging technology to provide integration and expanded service offerings. While these services drive growth, they also add cost and complexity to the supply chain network," said Scott Pulsipher, vice president of product management, applications, for Sterling Commerce. "Working with industry leaders such as OIA Global Logistics will continue to strengthen Sterling Commerce's leadership in delivering advanced solutions to lessen the complexity and cost of multi-enterprise collaboration." The Yantra Supply Chain Suite includes advanced capabilities such as multi-enterprise order, inventory, delivery and warehouse management; inter-enterprise collaboration; real-time supply chain event management; and fully-integrated analytics. It offers Networked WMS, a process-centric and highly configurable Warehouse Management System organically designed for deployment across multiple sites and customers, and Supply Chain Management and Visibility, which enables global management and visibility of shipments, POs, customer orders and inventory across the supply chain. About OIA Global Logistics OIA Global Logistics is a 17-year-old international transportation, third-party logistics provider and supply chain management company. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, OIA is part of the Yoshida Group, a conglomerate of 18 diverse companies that was recently inducted into the U.S. Small Business Administration's 50th Anniversary Hall of Fame in recognition of their tremendous growth. Domestic OIA branches include Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, and San Francisco. International branches include Bangladesh, Beijing, Brussels, Busan, Dalian, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Inchon, Penang, Philippines, Qingdao, Seoul, Shanghai, Shenyang, Shenzhen, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taipei, Tianjin, Weihai, Xuchang, Yantai, Yingkou and Yiwu. For more information, visit www.oiaglobal.com and www.yoshidagroup.com. About Sterling Commerce The year 2005 marks 30 years of Sterling Commerce leadership and expertise in extending processes beyond the edge of the enterprise to enable visible business with suppliers, customers, partners and employees. A wholly owned subsidiary of SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC), the company is one of the world's largest providers of multi-enterprise collaboration solutions. With more than 29,000 customers worldwide, Sterling Commerce builds collaborative, multi-enterprise communities for customers in the retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and telecommunications industries. For detailed, up-to-date information about Sterling Commerce and its solutions, visit www.sterlingcommerce.com.