Cephalon Selects OAT Foundation Suite for Item-Level Drug Tracking Pilot

OAT Foundation Suite Powers RFID Initiative to Drive Supply Chain Efficiencies and Ensure Patient Safety

WALTHAM, Mass. – August 9, 2005 – OATSystems®, Inc., the recognized RFID framework leader, today announced that Cephalon, Inc, an international biopharmaceutical company, has selected OAT Foundation Suite as the RFID software platform for use in a pilot program for tracking branded pharmaceuticals across the supply chain. For the pilot, OAT Foundation Suite will deliver end-to-end visibility of Cephalon’s products as they move across owned and outsourced facilities as well as selected drug wholesaler trading partners. Once the pilot project has proven successful, Cephalon will implement RFID utilizing the OAT Foundation Suite.

Cephalon is deploying RFID to gain visibility of goods movement and inventory from manufacturing to retail to reduce shipment-receipt discrepancies with trading partners, and ensure patient safety by tracking products all the way to the end-user.

“Cephalon selected OAT Foundation Suite for this pilot project because it provides a single platform for managing RFID data across our enterprise and tracking goods movement throughout the supply chain,” said Randy Bradway, Cephalon Vice President of Commercial Operations. “ OAT Foundation Suite will enable Cephalon to use RFID to drive supply chain efficiencies while putting in place a platform to support future e-pedigree initiatives driven by regulatory agencies. We are impressed by OAT ’s experience and pleased to be among companies driving adoption of RFID.”

OAT Foundation Suite is the only complete RFID software platform containing all of the functionality required by companies implementing supply chain tracking systems, including:

• Enterprise data management (OATaxiom) for integrating trading partner data and developing a clean, enterprise-level view of RFID-tagged goods movement and inventory
• Enterprise-level analytics and reporting (OATaxiom) for measuring product velocity, inventory, shipment receipt verification, and track-and-trace
• High-performance Edge data management (OATxpress) for managing the entire ecosystem of RFID hardware devices and capturing and filtering data from readers
• Item-level tracking (OAT Foundation Suite) for track-and-trace reporting by individual unit

“We are excited that OAT Foundation Suite has been selected to power Cephalon’s initiatives to track drugs across the pharmaceutical supply chain,” said Prasad Putta, CEO, OATSystems. “Cephalon is a world-class biopharmaceuticals company with a clear vision to improve supply chain efficiency and increase consumer safety based on the high-resolution visibility of goods movement and inventory delivered by RFID.”

OAT Foundation Suite will run on ADT’s Sensormatic® RFID hardware, leveraging the close partnership between ADT and OAT and the performance optimizations built into the joint OAT /ADT solution.

About OAT

OATSystems, Inc. is the recognized RFID framework leader with software that empowers businesses to achieve competitive advantage from radio-frequency identification (RFID). As pioneers in the development of RFID technology, OAT has been setting the standard in RFID for over half a decade and is responsible for industry firsts that include the largest scale and largest scope of deployments, as well as the most innovative approaches to providing enterprise-wide RFID solutions. OAT’s multinational client base, which includes companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Gillette, consists of over 50 customers in retail, CPG, consumer electronics, manufacturing, life sciences, aerospace and defense. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, OAT has offices in Chicago, London, San Francisco and Bangalore and is on the Web at www.oatsystems.com