nMetric Leads Off Exhibitor Presentation Series at National Manufacturing Week; First Presentation, First Day - 10:30 am, March 18

    COSTA MESA, Calif.--March 14, 2002--In a special presentation series to be held during National Manufacturing Week at the Innovation Arena in the South Hall of Chicago's McCormick Place, nMetric CEO Tom Carpenter has been selected as the inaugural speaker. Carpenter's presentation will be at 10:30 am, March 18.
    To the largest annual North American gathering of manufacturing professionals, Carpenter will describe nMetric's breakthrough 4C@site scheduling, monitoring, messaging and analysis software solution.
    "In today's highly competitive market, management must be able to support capable-to-promise with ongoing automatic real-time adjustments to account for emerging conditions," Carpenter emphasizes. "Linking both planning and execution of the present supply chain with live scheduling, monitoring and tracking, messaging updates and analyses eliminates the extensive expediting now required when using loosely connected conventional multiple systems. Responsibility for all data on all execution levels can now be single-sourced and configurable by the client on both macro and micro levels."
    With nMetric 4C, orders are continuously monitored at every moment throughout the production process in real time to assure status and provide notification if delivery expectations are not going to be met. When and if resources or demands change or might change, 4C attempts to resolve any problems that could affect delivery dates and/or proactively notifies all specified parties so they are aware and can plan accordingly. If there are prospective large shifts in plans or resources, users proactively use 4C to manually determine the impact of various "what-ifs" on present order dates in the queue. Management can then anticipate what the effects of each change will be before making them.

    About nMetric

    Founded in 2000, nMetric's 4C system is the only software that provides mid-sized and smaller manufacturers with live scheduling, monitoring and tracking, messaging updates and analyses so that they can completely oversee all steps of their manufacturing process and proactively supervise the dynamics of their supply chain in real time to accurately predict what will happen. Company headquarters are at 3070 South Bristol Avenue, Costa Mesa, Calif. 92626. Phone is 888-561-9700. Website is www.nmetric.com.

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