Leading Business Magazine Recognizes Nexiant Among the Industry’s Top Service Providers for its Innovative MRO Inventory Management Solutions

IRVINE, Calif., July 30, 2008 – Nexiant, a leading provider of MRO inventory management solutions for the industrial market, today announced that it has been named to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 List for 2008.  Nexiant was selected as one of the industry’s elite service providers based on its ability to help its customers achieve great success through the implementation of what’s being called the “next wave” of innovative supply chain solutions.

“Nexiant is honored to be recognized among such an elite group of supply chain providers,” said Mark Vettese, chief executive officer of Nexiant. “We have consistently focused on helping organizations optimize the productivity and efficiency of their supply chain by automating the entire MRO management process; and this award is a testament to the strength of our solutions and the efforts of our entire team.”

The 2008 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 list recognizes supply chain solution and service providers that are helping to drive supply chain innovation by providing their customers with unique software, solutions and/or services that address those customers' primary current and future supply chain challenges. The goal of the Executive 100 list is to highlight a broad range of solutions and services targeted at a variety of industries, addressing the needs of companies of varying sizes, and assisting in the transformation of the diverse mix of functions that make up the supply chain.

"Our readers turn to Supply & Demand Chain Executive to learn about new solutions and best practices for enabling the supply chain, to understand trends in supply chain technology, and to benchmark their own companies' enablement initiatives with those of other enterprises across industry verticals," explained Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. "The corporate executives and line-of-business leaders who rely on the magazine want to know what the different supply chain solution and service providers are doing to help them meet the challenges of the 21st century supply chain."

After receiving nomination forms, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive judging committee culled through hundreds of applicants that best fit the above criteria. Nexiant is among the final recipients that are featured in the cover story of the June/July 2008 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive, as well as online at www.SDCExec.com/SDCE100.

Nexiant’s MRO inventory management technology and services help automate and streamline the last 100 feet of the supply chain to improve efficiencies, increase productivity around resources and assets, enforce business rules and drive standardization across an enterprise.

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