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Volkswagen Selects Peregrine Systems(R) to Support Automaker's Global e-Procurement

20 November 2000

Volkswagen Selects Peregrine Systems(R) to Support Automaker's Global e-Procurement

               Best-in-Industry e-Catalog Software and Content
                Management Services Drive Procurement Savings

    SAN DIEGO, Nov. 20 Peregrine Systems, Inc. ,
the leading provider of Infrastructure Management software and e-Market
enablement solutions, today announced that it has been selected by Volkswagen
AG, the fourth largest automotive supplier in the world, to provide an
electronic catalog solution for the company's global e-procurement system.
    The Peregrine-powered solution -- which will be implemented for the entire
Volkswagen Group, including Audi, Skoda and Seat -- comprises catalog
software, content management services and search engine capabilities.
    "Peregrine's catalog services will help Volkswagen post catalogs,
aggregate data from its entire trading community and then manage that data for
posting in its global e-procurement system," said Klaus Osterloh, Manager of
the B2B-Project Catalog Purchasing at Volkswagen.  "We are excited about our
new Peregrine-powered catalog solution and content services.  Peregrine will
not only help us move our purchasing to the next level of e-Procurement, but
it will ensure the integrity of our data.  In e-Procurement, if you can't find
precise catalog items within a catalog, you can't close a purchase, nor can
you reap the full benefit from e-trading on the Net."
    Volkswagen suppliers send their data to the Peregrine Get2Connect.net(SM)
e-Commerce portal where the information is transformed, validated and
consolidated.  The converted data is subsequently sent to Volkswagen.  The
Gatekeeper tool provided by Peregrine enables the purchasing department at
Volkswagen to verify and proofread the data sent by the suppliers.  After
individual items are either accepted or rejected, they are sent to the
internal catalog to be used for optimal searches.
    "We are proud to be teaming with Volkswagen to provide the industry's
leading catalog software solution and content management services," said
Gregor Gobel, Peregrine director of Product Management in Europe, Middle East
and Asia.  "As trading communities move towards e-Procurement, we're seeing
greater demand for content management.  This is an important piece of the
e-Procurement puzzle and it takes a proven methodology to get it done.
Catalog content is a fundamental necessity to realizing true e-fficiencies."
    For more information on Peregrine e-procurement solutions and services,
contact a Peregrine sales representative today.

    About Peregrine
    Peregrine Systems, Inc. serves two immense, fast-growth markets of
critical importance to global commerce.  Peregrine's Infrastructure Management
Group (IMG) is the world leader in providing software solutions to manage the
entire life cycle of an organization's assets, from IT equipment and fleets of
cars to a company's intangible knowledge assets.  On a true cradle to grave
basis, Peregrine IMG solutions help to ensure that all forms of assets yield
maximum efficiency and financial optimization -- with employee self-service
solutions empowering employees to manage the process end-to-end.  Peregrine's
E-Markets Group (EMG) delivers best-of-breed e-Commerce connectivity,
real-time data transformation, catalog creation and management, and portal
creation and management.  Peregrine EMG processes more than 1.1 million
e-Commerce transactions every business day and annually transacts in excess of
$250 billion in B2B e-commerce.
    Founded in 1981, Peregrine is headquartered in San Diego, California with
offices throughout the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom,
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia and Singapore.
Peregrine also has alliance partners and distributors located throughout these
regions and in Latin America.  More information on Peregrine is available on
the World Wide Web at http://www.peregrine.com.

    Peregrine Systems is a registered trademark of Peregrine Systems, Inc.
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