Ingram Micro Commits To Global Electronic Commerce Standards

Partner Press Release
Ingram Micro Commits To Global Electronic Commerce Standards

Company to Adopt RosettaNet Standards on Feb. 2, 2000

For Release June 9, 1999

Santa Ana, CA -- Ingram Micro Inc., the world's leading wholesale distributor of technology products and services, today announced its endorsement of eConcert, the multipartner implementation of RosettaNet's electronic commerce standards. RosettaNet is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting an industry-wide initiative establishing common worldwide electronic-business interfaces.

Ingram Micro anticipates endorsement and implementation of global standards by RosettaNet's scheduled target date of Feb. 2, 2000. In preparation, Ingram Micro has developed an internal organization, the E-Bridgade, to champion the Partner Interface Process (PIP) developed by RosettaNet. PIPs will be used to exchange product information between Ingram Micro and its vendor partners, including standardized technical specification and part numbers.

"Ingram Micro is proud to align with RosettaNet in its mission to advance worldwide technology supply-chain interaction through eConcert," said Jerre L. Stead, the chairman and chief executive officer of Ingram Micro. "The new digital economy poses great opportunities for the supply chain that can only be realized through the use of standards to facilitate the much-needed open exchange of information."

About Ingram Micro Inc.
Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, and is a leading provider of assembly and integration services with sales of $23.6 billion for the past four reported quarters. The company and its subsidiaries operate in 33 countries and distribute more than 225,000 products to more than 140,000 resellers in 130 countries. Ingram Micro can be found at ingrammicro.com.

About RosettaNet
Founded in 1998, RosettaNet is an independent, self-funded, non-profit consortium dedicated to the development and deployment of standard electronic commerce interfaces to align the processes between IT supply chain partners on a global basis. The RosettaNet Managing Board consists of 34 CEOs, CIOs, and executives representing global members of the IT supply chain, including board member companies: 3Com, American Express, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, CHS Electronics, Cisco Systems, CompUSA, Compaq, Computacenter, Deutsche Financial Services, EDS, Federal Express, GE Information Services, GSA, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Ingram Micro Inc., Inacom, Insight, Intel, Marshall Industries, Microage, Microsoft, Netscape, NEC Technologies, Office Depot Oracle, pcOrder, SAP AG, Siemens Solectron Tech Data, Toshiba Information Systems and United Parcel Service. RosettaNet can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.rosettanet.org.

Contacts

Alicia Soares
Ingram Micro Inc.
Media Relations
(714) 382-4719
alicia.soares@ingrammicro.com

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