Apexon Releases Enhanced Solution for Active Supply Management

Supplier Performance Dashboards, Alerting Added to On-Demand Suite

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 11, 2006 – Apexon, a leading provider of active supply management solutions for manufacturing, today released Apexon SPM 2.5, the latest version of the company’s on-demand Supply Performance Management (SPM) suite.

Apexon SPM 2.5 automates and streamlines direct materials supply management, including supplier scorecarding and performance analytics. The subscription software service allows manufacturing companies to analyze and act on critical supplier cost, quality and delivery data. New features allow users and teams to generate personalized supplier performance scorecards and dashboards, set proactive performance alerts across multiple data dimensions, and instantly analyze millions of supplier, part, plant, and supply team combinations and relationships.

New features in Apexon SPM 2.5 include:

• Dashboard -- a new add-on module that provides graphical trends of aggregate supplier performance and simplifies the process for monitoring key performance indicators (KPI).

• Supply Team Dimension -- an enhancement to the core data model that allows rapid monitoring and analysis of team or department-specific information to proactively manage a key subset of suppliers.

"With supply disruptions and cost pressures on the rise, many manufacturing companies are looking for ways to become more proactive with their supply base,” said Kevin Brooks, vice president of marketing, Apexon. “Apexon SPM 2.5 enables that proactive relationship by streamlining the traditional, labor-intensive supplier scorecarding process and by quickly aligning key stakeholders across the supply chain.”

About Apexon

Apexon, recently named one of “10 Companies to Watch in 2007” by Managing Automation Magazine, provides Active Supply Management solutions that go beyond supplier scorecards to bring manufacturers supply performance information, supply chain alignment, and the ability to act quickly and decisively at all levels of the organization. Apexon’s on-demand software is secure, reliable, and rapidly scalable across companies of all sizes. Apexon is headquartered in San Jose, California. More information is available at www.apexon.com.