Datalliance Delivers New Vendor Managed Inventory Education Program

• New program to feature ongoing series of educational topics, delivered via webinar format, for Vendor Managed Inventory customers
• Datalliance Customer Care team to develop and deliver the program
• First Webinar in series to be held Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 2pm EST.

Cincinnati, Ohio, February 11, 2008 - Datalliance®, the leading independent provider of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) services, today announces a new Customer Care program to provide educational sessions covering a broad range of Vendor Managed Inventory topics. In this ongoing series, Datalliance industry and technology experts will share their knowledge and experience to help customers get the most out of their VMI implementation. This information will help customers take maximum advantage of the Datalliance functionality. The new program, delivered via webinar format, is available to all Datalliance VMI customers at no cost. Sessions will be offered at least quarterly and will be archived for future "on demand" reference via the Datalliance website.

The new webinar educational series will focus on helping VMI Planners understand the tools that are available to help them be more exception driven. These exception based tools fall into the general categories of Order Point (OP) Management, Purchase Order (PO) Worksheet Alerts, and Product Activity Errors. Due to the critical nature of having appropriate inventory levels and the business variables that can change throughout the VMI process (specific to an item, product lines, or general business parameters), OP Management is the exception driven functionality that deserves the initial attention. Within OP Management, several common categories of exceptions such as order point/demand spikes will be the focus of the early webinar sessions. The PO Worksheet Review process, Product Activity Errors, and Reporting will be covered in subsequent sessions. Through this ongoing educational series, Datalliance will help their customer VMI Planners to better understand the tools available to recognize and effectively deal with exceptions within the VMI process.

"Over time, we have developed a significant amount of expertise regarding the development, delivery and use of Vendor Managed Inventory," stated Bob Jennings, Datalliance VP Sales/Marketing. "Our new webinar education program provides the perfect vehicle to share this knowledge with our customers to allow them to get the most out of their individual VMI programs. By archiving the sessions and making them available on demand, our customers can access the topics they need, when they need them."

The first webinar in this series will be held on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 2pm EST. The topic will be Order Point (OP) Management: overview and op/demand spikes category review.

For questions about this session or to reserve your place, please reply to "info@datalliance.com".

About Datalliance

Datalliance is the world's largest independent VMI service provider, processing over $6 billion in orders, 9.2 million SKUs, and 19,500 locations in 2007. Delivered as a managed service via the Internet using the 'Software as a Service' (SaaS) model, Datalliance VMI makes it easy for suppliers and their customers to establish effective VMI relationships that fully align business objectives, improve collaboration, and streamline supply chain operations. Datalliance serves leading Fortune 1000 companies such as Philips, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and SKF.

Contact: Brian Lindner, Datalliance
513-791-7272 or blindner@datalliance.com