Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Integrated with Global Sourcing for Greater Margin Contribution

NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
NRF Annual Convention & EXPO 2009 - Arigo announces the Arigo STM Suite version
9.0 with PLM including robust Digital Asset Management, Product Portfolio
Management, and Line Planning capabilities.

This latest version of Arigo STM, representing the industry`s greatest
investment in a sourcing and trade management solution, delivers new
functionality that enables manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers to achieve
greater agility, efficiency, and profitability across the supply chain through
integrated concept initiation, product development, line planning, global
sourcing, and import management.

From Concept Initiation to Delivery in Single Solution

As efficient, rapid, and globally-distributed product development is an
essential component of modern competitive strategies, Arigo Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM) supports the natural processes already resident in advanced
organizations. When integrated with the Arigo STM Suite, Arigo PLM creates a
framework for aspiring organizations to apply best practices to Total Cost
Management. For both hard- and soft-lines, Arigo PLM provides image sorting and
classification, specification management of colors, styles, fabric, fit,
components and concepts, preparation of both simple and complex line plans, and
alternate sourcing scenario analyses.

Arigo STM v9.0 augments and improves the creative process with close connection
to product development, sourcing, and financial goals reducing organizational
silos and rapidly bringing products to market with greater margin. Key business
benefits include:

* Building better products (faster cycle time with higher quality, and greater
margin)
* Acceleration of product introductions and growth in private label business
* Achieve efficient handoffs between product design, development, production,
merchants, and procurement
* Improve responsiveness to trends through accelerated innovation
* Increase productivity and savings across the enterprise and supply ecosystem
* Support many-to-many enterprise collaboration
* Aggregate view of component usage for cost transparency
* Establishes a nexus for process, information, and people - a single source of
the truth

Specifically, Arigo PLM supports the following primary functionality:

Concept Initiation to accelerate product introduction using collaborative tools
to conceive, refine, and innovate around product ideas and designs. This
includes Digital Asset Management to better manage and organize concepts,
sketches, images, and inspirations.

Product Development to systematically improve and document product designs and
selected components to achieve compliance, best cost, and highest margin.

Line Planning and Execution to focus on product costs and `what-if` scenarios to
achieve optimal product mix and business results. Combine historical performance
and up-to-date product information to accelerate plan-to-revenue.

Collaboration & Workflow Management to promote global collaboration and
interaction to accelerate product introduction, improve designs and reduce
development cycle times using a highly-visual desktop environment enabling
automation of workflows, alerts, and tasks. This allows for proactive exception
management to head-off budding problems and optimize organizational processes.

"Through Arigo`s deep visibility into the supply chain, their customers are
experiencing a multifaceted impact on their business performance - improvements
in margin, quality, and time to market - translating into millions of dollars in
annual savings and a strong ROI. At times like these, when you need to squeeze
every dime, Arigo`s configurable ecosystem of integrated PLM, Sourcing, and
Trade Management modules will drive millions of dollars in savings to the bottom
line" commented Nancy Johnson, President at Optimyze.

"Arigo STM v9.0 marks a sharp departure for Arigo as the development pace has
been dramatically accelerated yielding improvements in user interface,
navigation, display, reporting, image manipulation, access to legacy data,
business intelligence, and customer requested features on a Services Oriented
Architecture" said David Diamond, CEO at Arigo.

"By having an accurate depiction of your supply chain, you can identify a
variety of parameters that may contain excess you can trim - and improve your
bottom line. Arigo goes beyond the quick ROI and enables millions of dollars in
annual savings. Even with low or no CAPEX budget, Arigo makes our customers
heroes through our creative business and financing models for a guaranteed
win/win scenario" said Lars Rohrberg, Vice President of Sales at Arigo

Arigo is the proud recipient of the Supply & Demand Chain Executives 2008 Pros
To Know Award. Arigo's customers include: Home Depot, JC Penney, Staples,
Bon-Ton, Argos, Timberland, Target, Gear for Sports, Hanes Brands, RadioShack,
Macy's, Payless, Stride Rite, Lenox, and more.

Availability

Arigo STM v9.0 will be available Q2 2009. For further details about the release
or to learn more about Arigo`s six solutions that comprise the Arigo STM Suite,
please contact Arigo at info@arigo.com or visit www.arigo.com.

About Arigo

Arigo provides a complete integrated PLM, Global Sourcing, and Trade Management
platform to develop and source products, assess and track sources / suppliers,
manage cost and complex supply processes, and accelerate, automate, and optimize
supply chains. Arigo`s web-based, collaborative platform, the Arigo STM Suite,
enables businesses to visualize and improve their sourcing pipeline at a
granular level, driving efficiency throughout the entire supply ecosystem.
Annually, Arigo`s customers source over $100 billion in goods from over 50
countries; manage over 40 million SKUs; track over 2,000,000 million containers;
provide production visibility and support into 75,000 suppliers; and deliver
critical information to product managers, merchants, logistics planners,
financial managers, agents, factories, service providers, financial
institutions, and executives.

Arigo
Lars Rohrberg, 978-528-2211

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