i2 Technologies, Inc. (i2), incorporated in 1988, is a provider of multi-enterprise supply chain management solutions, including various supply chain software and service offerings. Supply chain management is the set of processes, technology and expertise involved in managing supply, demand and fulfillment throughout divisions within a company and with its customers, suppliers and partners. The goals of the Company's solutions include increasing supply chain efficiency and enhancing customer and supplier relationships by managing variability, reducing complexity, improving operational visibility, increasing operating velocity, and integrating planning and execution. i2 also offers master data management technology, which is designed to collect, synthesize and distribute critical reference data by leveraging a service-oriented architecture. The Company provides its customer?s business optimization and technical consulting, training, solution maintenance, and software upgrades and development. i2 Solutions The Company's primary products are focused on optimizing the business processes, such as supply and demand management, execution and collaboration, transportation and distribution management, supplier relationship management, as well as data management and analytics. i2 solutions for supply and demand management help businesses coordinate the production and distribution of goods and materials throughout the supply chain to final delivery to the customer. They also help businesses analyze their revenues with merchandising, planning and pricing tools. Solutions for supply planning are designed to provide multi-enterprise visibility, collaboration, decision support and execution capabilities. Using these tools, a business may estimate future demand for its products to help planners more accurately estimate future supply needs. As a result, businesses can make better decisions about how much of what products to make, when to make them and what parts to utilize to make those products. Solutions for supply planning include i2 Factory Planner, i2 Supply Chain Planner, i2 Inventory Optimization and various scheduling products. Solutions for demand management provide tools designed to forecast and continuously manage demand, plan merchandising strategies, manage markdowns and promotions pricing, and optimize price quoting. Using these products, companies can begin to optimize their revenues by selling products at prices set by analytic products. Demand management products include i2 Demand Manager, i2 Markdown Optimizer and i2 Merchandise Planner, i2 Inventory Optimization, i2 Sales and Operations Planning, i2 Merchandise Financial Planning, i2 Buying and Assortment Management, and i2 Allocation and Replenishment. The Company's solutions for transportation and distribution management help businesses optimize the flow of goods between suppliers, enterprise supply chain locations and customers. These tools provide integrated products for planning and executing transportation and distribution activities, as well as tools for strategic supply chain design and transportation modeling. Using i2 solutions, a business can procure, plan, execute and monitor freight movements across multiple modes, borders and enterprises. As a result, businesses can make better decisions about where and how to ship products, reducing their transportation costs while executing supply chain plans and achieving customer service objectives. Transportation and distribution management products include i2 Supply Chain Strategist, i2 Transportation Bid Collaboration, i2 Transportation Planner, i2 Transportation Modeler and i2 Transportation Manager. i2 solutions to optimize plan execution and collaboration help businesses integrate the planning and execution processes, creating a closed-loop environment. These solutions provide tools designed to stage inventory, plan replenishment, manage orders and provide visibility to lower fulfillment costs, improve on time delivery performance and enhance customer satisfaction. The i2 Collaborative Supply Execut