i2 Named Finalist for Prestigious Automotive News PACE Awards; i2 Optimal Scheduler Recognized in the Information Technology and Services Category

DALLAS--Oct. 2, 20041, 2004--i2 Technologies, Inc. (OTC:ITWO), a leading provider of closed-loop supply chain management solutions, has been named a finalist in the prestigious Automotive News PACE Awards for 2004. Established in 1994 and jointly presented by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Transportation Research Center Inc. (TRC Inc.) and Automotive News, the awards program honors innovation by automotive suppliers in four categories: Product, Product - Europe, Manufacturing Process and Capital Equipment, and Information Technology and Services.

PACE stands for Premier Automotive Suppliers' Contributions to Excellence. Winners of the 2004 awards will be chosen by an independent panel of judges and announced April 11, 2005 in Detroit. i2 Service and Parts Management was a 2003 awards finalist.

i2 Optimal Scheduler has been selected as a finalist in the Information Technology and Services category. Optimal Scheduler is the core solution architecture underlying three key i2 solutions: i2 Sequencer, i2 Master Scheduler and i2 Configuration Order Promising. This solution suite is designed to help companies to optimize schedules and sequences for automotive vehicle assembly lines and to provide order matching, swapping, substitution and promising directly against the scheduled and sequenced orders. These solutions can enable the creation of a detailed model of the vehicle assembly environment, accept inputs such as production constraints and customer orders and then create schedules and sequences based on optimization techniques while adhering to key business constraints. The i2 Optimal Scheduler solution architecture can also be used to deliver solutions to business challenges such as planning production of tires, scheduling of job shops, and enterprise level project and resource planning.

"It is an honor for i2 solutions to be selected once again as a finalist for this prestigious award," said Tom Meredith, i2 senior vice president, Automotive and Industrial. "This solution is a key enabler of our customers' strategic efforts to reduce order-to-delivery lead-times, create a more customer-focused supply chain and move more towards build-to-order fulfillment. We share this honor with the leading auto makers around the world that have found success leveraging this solution."

i2 is a leading provider of supply chain management solutions to the automotive industry. Five of the top six global automotive companies are i2 customers.

About i2

A leading provider of closed-loop supply chain management solutions, i2 designs and delivers software that helps customers optimize and synchronize activities involved in successfully managing supply and demand. i2's global customer base consists of some of the world's market leaders -- including seven of the Fortune global top 10. Founded in 1988 with a commitment to customer success, i2 remains focused on delivering value by implementing solutions designed to provide a rapid return on investment. Learn more at www.i2.com.

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