CDC Software to Acquire Provider of On-demand Supply Chain Planning Solutions

Purchasing JRG advanced planning and scheduling apps as a managed service over the Internet for food, beverage and consumer goods companies

Atlanta January 23, 2006 CDC Software, a provider of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management applications, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase substantially all of the business assets of JRG Software Inc., which offers on-demand supply chain planning solutions delivered as software as a service (SaaS).

CDC Software's products include Ross Systems' ERP, Pivotal's CRM and IMI's supply chain solutions. With the acquisition of JRG, CDC Software is expected to expand its footprint in enterprise software and provide another on-demand solution that streamlines adoption for a broad variety of companies on a global scale.

JRG's One Plan is an on-demand solution for factory planning and scheduling that combines an interactive graphical planning environment with integrated business intelligence to enable the real-time creation, sharing and monitoring of production plans across a manufacturing organization. The key capabilities and benefits of the JRG One Plan solution include dynamic planning and scheduling, visibility and collaboration, and monitoring and messaging.