Leading Freight Management Company Creates Real-Time Worldwide Supply Chain Communications Network with Sterling Commerce

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CEVA Logistics Deploys Global Communications System Using Sterling Integrator to Replace B2B Infrastructure and Manage Three Million Messages Per Day

9/28/2010

San Diego – Sept. 28, 2010– At the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) conference,Sterling Commerce, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) company, today announced thatCEVA Logisticshas implementedSterling Integratoras the technical platform for CEVA Connect, the company’s event-driven real-time strategic communications system with its trading partners.  With CEVA Connect, the company looks to optimize supply chain communications, become more responsive to business needs and adjust to industry changes.

“Our overall goal at CEVA is to deliver value to our customers,” said Brian Gentry, global director integration services, CEVA. “One of the key value propositions we provide is the secure, reliable and auditable exchange of data with our trading partners.  Sterling Integrator provides theB2B integrationplatform that supports all of our processes in real-time.”

CEVA Connect manages, in real-time, the information transactions that support the movement of goods from one location to another, providing updates and managing documents such as load tenders, package order status, shipping notices, proofs of delivery and receipts. Sterling Integrator, the market-leading flexible integration platform, is used to handle more than three million messages daily, ensuring CEVA fulfills and keeps track of deliveries.  Increased document visibility, and fast, error-free and stable integrated document exchanges allow CEVA to provide B2B resources to customers regardless of where they are based in the world.

With Sterling Integrator, CEVA has centralized its IT systems and dramatically increased the amount of transactions that can be processed each day. The worldwide standardization of systems makes it easier to extend or start new relationships with customers.  The company’s ability to turn around or scale projects has increased and CEVA can move projects from one region to another easily as standards are shared. 

“Visibilityacross the supply chain is not a new challenge, but global complexity demands a technology commitment,” said Gene Nusekabel, logistics industry executive at Sterling Commerce.  “Logisticscompanies have many different systems to connect internally and with a variety of customers. With CEVA Connect, CEVA is demonstrating how creating an integrated communications system across all its partners can reduce costs and deliver new value for their customer base.”

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Sterling Commerce, an IBM® Company, helps organizations worldwide increase business agility in their dynamic business network through innovative solutions for selling and fulfillment and for seamless and secure integration with customers, partners and suppliers. More information can be found atwww.sterlingcommerce.com.

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