Showa Aluminum Corporation of America Purchases BRAIN's SupplyWEB(R) Enterprise SCM Solution and ACmanager(TM) CRM Solution

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 14 -- BRAIN North America, an Agilisys Company, announces Showa Aluminum Corporation of America has chosen key Automotive Solutions to drive its supply chain. Showa purchased BRAIN's supply chain management (SCM) tool, SupplyWEB Enterprise and customer relationship management (CRM) tool, ACmanager.

With ACmanager, Showa can manage front-end communications with their customers including EDI, order processing and shipping. With SupplyWEB, Showa has the electronic communications with 100% of their suppliers, making release and inventory information available to suppliers around the clock.

SupplyWEB Enterprise is an automotive, web-enabled supply chain management solution designed to reduce supply chain costs, reduce inventory and increase operational efficiencies. It delivers significant ROI by increasing supplier visibility, enabling inter-enterprise communication, and providing a high level of systems integration. SupplyWEB presents One Face to Your Suppliers(TM) -- it combines the information from multiple versions of disparate ERP systems into a single, universal view for your suppliers and internal users.

ACmanager is a comprehensive Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution created for automotive suppliers. It delivers automated front-end communications, EDI, bar code capabilities, order processing and shipping solution, designed to be comprehensive and user-friendly. ACmanager's integrated approach enables fast and accurate communication with minimum effort. Now more than ever, managing automotive customer's requirements is mission critical for a manufacturing enterprise. A non-integrated approach can be crippling for any operation, requiring manual intervention, rip-read-and-re- enter, and other error-inviting tasks. ACmanager assists with meeting customers' aggressive timelines and avoiding non-compliance expenses. Its platform independence and ERP independence allow it to be implemented anywhere and integrated with any system. It centers on the release and shipping requirements of OEMs and Tier 1s in the automotive supply chain and offers over 100 trading partners. It manages your customer mandates, so you don't have to.

Agilisys provides global business solutions to select manufacturing industries. What sets Agilisys apart is our deep vertical focus, which translates directly into value and competitive advantage for our customers. BRAIN Automotive, an Agilisys company, provides automotive-specific global business solutions with worldwide support. We are experts in serving the business needs of the automotive supplier, including enterprise business and e-commerce solutions like SupplyWEB(R) (Supply Chain Execution and Management), ACmanager(TM) (Automotive Customer Manager), BRAIN-eX(TM) (TCP/IP Message Broker), and Lean Manufacturing Systems (TRANS4M(TM) and Xpert(TM)). We implement and support our solutions to keep automotive suppliers current, compliant, and on the leading edge. With over 1,600 referenceable automotive suppliers around the world, BRAIN's single source, best-of-breed solutions make our customers better suppliers.

Showa Aluminum Corporation of America is dedicated to providing the highest quality aluminum products available while maintaining total customer satisfaction. We ensure quality through the control of our process. We encourage innovation from our associates to improve our products and manufacturing process. Through the design and manufacturing process, we are committed to developing efficient and environmentally sound products.