Aachen, December 12, 2005

INFORM optimizes Material Deliveries at Volkswagen AG -
Group Contract for the Truck Control System SyncroSupply

In future the truck control system of the software service provider INFORM, Aachen will control the truck deliveries for materials supply in the plants of the Volkswagen Group. The IT system SyncroSupply will be working as from spring 2006 in all important plants of the group which includes also the affiliates Audi, Seat and Skoda.

SyncroSupply has already been successfully installed at BMW and Daimler Chrysler, and now also Europe's major automotive producer has decided to work with SyncroSupply. "Within a few years only our system for the control of material deliveries by truck has turned out to been a quasi standard in the German automotive industry", says Udo Nießen, Vice President, Logistics Systems Division at INFORM. More than 3,500 truck approaches every day will be controlled by the system at all European sites of the Volkswagen Group. For INFORM the implementation of the IT system as a standard across the group represents a milestone in product development. In spring 2005 already the application of SyncroSupply within the dynamic truck control system (DLSS) at BMW was honored by the AKJ Automotive Congress with the nomination for the Elog@istics Award.

At Volkswagen all material deliveries by truck for the car production will be centrally controlled and optimized with SyncroSupply. The system not only generates a time slot allocation plan but also assumes the internal control of the trucks after arrival at the plant. Besides all external and internal information the software incorporates into the planning and controlling also all persons involved - truck drivers, the forwarders' dispatchers and the employees in the control centers. In the beginning of next year the system will initially go on line in the plant Kassel/Baunatal and with Audi in Ingolstadt. Then it will start working in the group's major plant in Wolfsburg.