- Nexiant Smart Inventory® Solutions to Deliver MRO Efficiencies -

IRVINE, Calif., Apr. 2, 2007– Nexiant, a leading provider of MRO inventory management solutions for the industrial market, announced today that John Deere’s Des Moines Works plant has selected Nexiant Smart Inventory Manager (SIM) and Nexiant Secure point-of-use (POU) dispensing technologies to improve maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) management plant-wide.

“Nexiant solutions have already been implemented in three other John Deere plants,” said Frank Wright, manager of skilled trades at John Deere Des Moines Works.  “The other plants have seen as much as a 30 percent reduction in consumption of materials and have eliminated shortages.  Those results made our decision an easy one – and we are confident we will achieve at least that same level of control and efficiency.”

The Des Moines, Iowa, plant will replace its existing POU system with Nexiant’s advanced suite of inventory management technology.  Nexiant Smart Inventory Solutions combine software and hardware to provide enterprise-wide MRO management and reporting capabilities, improve control and access of MRO materials, increase productivity, and reduce administrative and inventory costs. The technology can be integrated into a company’s enterprise resource planning and financial systems using common interfaces such as XML and EDI.

Nexiant Secure enforces corporate access control policies at POU, combines carousel and locker modules to provide flexible configuration options for single-item dispensing and ensures the right MRO materials are in the right place at the right time. SIM collects, analyzes and formats transactional data to automate customer-generated reordering, improves inventory visibility and provides analysis and automation tools to improve operational efficiencies enterprise-wide.

“We are delighted to expand our relationship with John Deere,” said Anton Visser, president and chief executive officer of Nexiant.  “We look forward to continuing to work closely with John Deere and all of our industrial customers to deliver end-to-end best practice processes to reduce manufacturing downtime and costs.”