Elemica's Gary Neights to Address Petroleum Industry Data Exchange on Supply Chain Integration

EXTON, PA--(Marketwire - Mar 26, 2013) - Elemica, the leading provider of supply chain integration and optimization solutions, announces that Gary Neights, director of product management, will be speaking at the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange (PIDX) U.S. Spring Conference in Houston, TX on April 4^th. The conference will feature industry experts presenting how oil and gas operators and suppliers are gaining huge value within their supply chains from the adoption of PIDX e-Business Standards.

"Optimizing the supply chain for oil and gas companies requires collaboration and system integration across companies and industries. B2B standards like PIDX remove complexity and cost from the equation," said Gary Neights, Director of Product Management at Elemica. "Attendees at the PIDX Spring Conference will gain knowledge about these standards and how they facilitate the flow of information, making it easier and quicker to reach quality decisions that affect their bottom line."

Gary Neights' presentation titled, "PIDX Standards: History, Value, and Cross Industry Supply Chain Automation," will cover a brief history of business data standards, such as x12, IDOCs, and Edifact. Forward-thinking ideas on reducing the cost of interoperating with various data standards will be discussed, along with how to reduce errors, create higher quality business intelligence, and generate significant savings. A PIDX implementation, leveraging work with additional outside groups, will also be presented.

PIDX International is the member managed non-profit standards body for e-Business in the global Oil and Gas Industry. PIDX International's mission is to provide a global forum for delivering and maintaining the process, information and technology standards that facilitate seamless, efficient electronic business within the Oil and Natural Gas industry and its e-Business community.

Gary Neights has extensive experience automating multi-echelon supply chains using electronic messaging standards. Prior to Elemica, Gary worked at RWD Technologies (acquired by GP Strategies) where he provided leadership to operational and SAP initiatives at Coca Cola, Dow, Exxon, IBM, Mobil, and Procter & Gamble. Gary holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State and an MS in Business Administration from Boston University. He is a PMP and Six Sigma Black Belt.

About Elemica
Elemica delivers state-of-the-art supply chain solutions in the areas of customer, supplier, sourcing, and logistics management. Elemica drives bottom line business results by promoting reduced cost of operations, faster process execution, automation of key business processes, removal of transactional barriers, and seamless information flow between business partners. Elemica was founded in 2000 and today connects more than 5,000 companies across multiple industries, processing over $150 billion in annual transactions. Elemica's global operations are headquartered outside Philadelphia and include offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Frankfurt, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo. Clients include BASF, BP, Continental, The Dow Chemical Company, DuPont, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, LANXESS, Michelin, Rhodia, Shell, Sumitomo Chemical, and Yokohama. For more information visit, www.elemica.com.