INFICON Automates Trade Compliance Screening with Management Dynamics; Leading Industrial Manufacturer Incorporates On-Demand Sanctioned Party Screening To Ensure Best Practice Compliance While Developing New Markets



    Management Dynamics, Inc., a leading provider of global
    trade management solutions, today announced that its hosted Sanctioned
    Party Screening Service has been implemented by INFICON, a leading
    developer, manufacturer and supplier of advanced instrumentation,
    across the company's worldwide import and export operations. The
    solution enables INFICON to screen all trading partners against
    various governmental lists to help avoid illegal trading activity with
    sanctioned or restricted parties.
    INFICON places a high priority on ensuring compliance with
    rigorous US and European export regulations. Due to heightened
    international security concerns, more stringent regulations have been
    in force since 2004, and the task of manually screening names and
    addresses of all trading partners, both individuals and companies as
    required, became unsustainable for the company.
    Management Dynamics' Sanctioned Party Screening solution automates
    the screening process and enables INFICON to access the up-to-date
    information necessary to comply with increased security initiatives
    and frequent changes to all restricted party lists issued by the
    European Union, the United States and other international government
    agencies. Active trading partners, maintained in the Sanctioned Party
    Screening system, are dynamically screened against any changes to the
    combined Sanctioned Party List, so that the INFICON customer database
    is always validated against the latest government requirements.
    "We selected Management Dynamics to assist us in keeping in full
    compliance with best international trade practices," commented Lukas
    Winkler, President and CEO, INFICON. "By interfacing with our existing
    ERP system, Management Dynamics has allowed us to fully automate this
    time-consuming manual task, which has improved the efficiency of our
    global operations for export control. They offered a fast
    implementation without any hardware or software ownership costs, as
    well as complete coverage of all sanctioned party lists worldwide."
    Management Dynamics' Sanctioned Party Screening service supports
    key objectives of INFICON's export control program including:

    -- Comprehensive, in-depth, up-to-date trade content that covers
    all sanctioned party lists and integrates seamlessly with
    INFICON's core ERP system, providing a robust, reliable
    technology architecture for the entire company going forward

    -- Fully automated process that centralizes INFICON's global
    address list of over 20,000 customers, suppliers and trading
    partners from multiple countries in a secure online database,
    improving internal efficiency and reducing the risk of errors,
    fines or penalties

    -- On-demand delivery model with no additional hardware or
    software investment costs that can scale to meet INFICON's
    growing list of trading partners

    "Screening for denied parties is essential in order to maintain
    compliance with the increasingly rigorous security and trade
    regulations. By integrating our global trade content with their export
    operations, INFICON will be able to do just that," said Jim
    Preuninger, CEO of Management Dynamics. "INFICON's decision to deploy
    Management Dynamics' hosted Sanctioned Party Screening Service across
    mission critical business units is a validation of our depth in
    content, scalable technology, and ability to fully support any global
    operation."
    Delivered as an on-demand information service via the Internet,
    the INFICON system has been live since January 2006 and is currently
    used by approximately 100 sales and compliance personnel in European
    and US business units.

    About INFICON

    INFICON is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of
    innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and advanced
    process control software for the semiconductor and vacuum-coating
    industries and other industrial applications. These analysis,
    measurement and control products are vital to original equipment
    manufacturers (OEMs) and end-users in the complex manufacturing of
    semiconductors, flat panel displays, magnetic and optical storage
    media and precision optics. INFICON also provides essential
    instrumentation for gas leak detection to the air
    conditioning/refrigeration industries and toxic chemical analysis for
    the emergency response and security markets. With executive offices in
    Syracuse, New York, INFICON has world-class manufacturing facilities
    in the United States and Europe and subsidiaries in the U.S., China,
    France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Liechtenstein, Singapore, Switzerland,
    Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. INFICON registered shares (IFCN) are
    listed on the SWX Swiss Stock Exchange. For more information about
    INFICON and its products, please visit www.inficon.com.

    About Management Dynamics, Inc.

    Management Dynamics is a leading provider of global trade
    management solutions that improve the performance of global supply
    chains for importers, exporters, logistics service providers, portals
    and carriers. The company's solutions synchronize the flow of
    information among trading partners, optimize supply chain execution
    decisions, and streamline import and export processes to ensure
    regulatory compliance and minimize cost and risk involved in
    cross-border transactions. Management Dynamics' time-proven solutions
    are used by more than 13,000 global users at some of the world's most
    successful 3PLs, carriers, manufacturers, retailers, and high
    technology companies. For more information, please visit
    www.ManagementDynamics.com or call +44 (0)1932 445220.

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