September 21, 2005

According to Tom Verzi, Director of Marketing for PRONTO North America, "Customers expect to be able to communicate and transact with B2B suppliers through a web-based interface for convenience, speed, and instant access to information. iShop provides the high level of service customers expect quite easily, quickly and economically."

Some of iShop's features and benefits include:

• Flexible design for both B2B and Business-to-Consumer (B2C)
• Easily customizable screens are included with iShop
• Hosting iShop on internal infrastructure means one scales up only as needed
• Customers see results in real-time

Utilizing innovative implementation techniques and tools, Pronto North America generates increased performance, service, efficiency, and accountability. Through PEER (Process Evaluation Executive Review), Pronto North America captures the values of Lean Manufacturing throughout the enterprise.

This functionality is accomplished utilizing a highly-trained world-class staff and an innovative process modeling and automation toolset unmatched in the industry, ensuring the realization of continuous process improvement and profitability.

Pronto North America is the North American Master Distributor of PRONTO-Xi , a comprehensive software system allowing manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to effectively manage all phases of their business.

Far beyond just another Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, PRONTO-Xi's financial and distribution applications are unique and have provided maximum return on investment for a wide variety of organizations since 1976.

From PRONTO Production to PRONTO Advanced Warehousing; from PRONTO Planning to PRONTO Quality Management System (QMS); from PRONTO Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) to PRONTO Forecasting Management, the cross-section and breadth of integrated elements addressed by PRONTO-Xi is unmatched in the marketplace and justifies its natural leadership role as the best fully integrated business software solution.

Source: Pronto Press Release