Minneapolis, MN, August 31, 2000: ebXML, the United Nations sponsored global standard for electronic business over the Internet, has adopted Logistical Software's model for Resources and Contracts.

The Resources and Contracts design is a key section of ebXML. Resources include products, materials, services and financial instruments. Contracts include long term contracts, releases, purchase and sales orders.

The Resources and Contracts section contains all of the business semantics of ebXML - it is the framework for ebXML to integrate with internal business systems.

The Resource and Contracts design is based on REA - a framework for economic business modeling. REA stands for Resources, Events and Agents. Logistical has been the driving force in extending REA for business-to-business collaboration. The result was the ebXML Resources and Contracts model.

Members of the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) have announced plans to use ebXML as the backbone of their new data exchange standard for business- to-business trade in the consumer goods industry. GCI members include 40 major manufacturers and retailers as well as eight trade associations, which in total represent 850,000 companies.

“It is clear to us that ebXML will soon become the standard for all global trade.” said Peter Jordan, director of European systems for Kraft Foods and member of the GCI Board of Directors.

About ebXML
ebXML (http://www.ebXML.org) is an International Initiative established by UN/CEFACT and OASIS in late 1999 with a mandate to undertake an 18- month program of work to research and identify the technical basis upon which the global implementation of XML (Extensible Markup Language) can be standardized. A primary objective of ebXML is to lower the barrier of entry to electronic business in order to facilitate trade, particularly with respect to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and developing nations.

About Logistical Software LLC:
Logistical Software (http://logisticalsoftware.com) is an Internet supply chain software development company located Minneapolis, MN (USA). Logistical has developed an REA-compliant, multi-company business model that enables real-time, collaborative interactions among trading partners over the Internet.
Logistical's has implemented its REA based resource and contract model in it's Supply Chain Action Network software.

About UN/CEFACT
UN/CEFACT (http://www.uncefact.org) is the United Nations body whose mandate covers worldwide policy and technical development in the area of trade facilitation and electronic business. Headquartered in Geneva, it has developed and promoted many tools for the facilitation of global business processes including UN/EDIFACT, the international EDI standard.

About OASIS
OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org) is the world’s largest independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the standardization of XML applications.