ICON Complements its Solution Portfolio with Enterprise Planning and Performance Management

Strategic Partnership with Steelwedge Software

Karlsruhe/Santa Clara, May 6, 2005. ICON Supply Chain Management, a leading provider of collaborative supply chain management solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Steelwedge Software. Both companies aim at extending the breadth of their solution and at cooperating in sales activities in Europe and North America.

Steelwedge Software will add functionality to the ICON portfolio in the areas of Demand Collaboration, Sales & Operations Planning, Budgeting, and Enterprise Performance. Together Steelwedge and ICON are able to offer integrated end-to-end solutions enabling Demand-Driven Supply Networks. The joint functionalities range from enterprise planning over supply chain execution, order fulfillment and network collaboration to enterprise performance and supply chain metrics.