Stockholm hotelsRIVERSIDE DISTRIBUTORS SELECTS SYNGISTIX FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART SUPPLY CHAIN SOFTWARE RIVERSIDE TO BENEFIT FROM THE X!TE REAL-TIME INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SUITE Hoteles de estadia nocturna ToulouseENGLEWOOD, Co., February 5, 2002 - Syngistix, Inc. today announced that Riverside Distributors, the nation's leading Christian products distributor, has purchased the company's X!TE (pronounced "excite") software solution to more efficiently distribute products to its customers throughout North America and overseas. accommodation in StockholmX!TE supports Riverside Distributors' growth strategy by allowing them to improve all aspects of their internal operations through X!TE's highly integrated order management, inventory management, accounting, purchasing, and warehouse management capabilities. And with X!TE's modular architecture, Riverside Distributors can add new capabilities module-by-module, in a logical sequence, to systematically gain new functionality. "As we have grown into a national retail distributor, it has become critical for us to have real-time product allocation and inventory management for our retail customers," said Rick Pigott, chairman of Riverside Distributors. "X!TE gives us this capability, equipping us to provide the high level of service that our customers have come to expect." X!TE and e-Commerce, Syngistix' browser based catalog and ordering application, provide Riverside Distributors' retail customers with the ability to see Riverside's full inventory of more than 100,000 Christian product SKUs and immediately order specifically what they need based upon the company's actual inventory. Using a three-tier client-server architecture and a Windows 2000 platform, X!TE supports robust integration with other business systems and databases for distributors of durable goods such as electrical supplies, industrial supplies and office products. This architecture allows the back-end database to operate on a variety of platforms including NT, HP e3000, UNIX, and AS/400, and - for the first time - leverages a distributor's existing investment in hardware while allowing migration to the latest technology. About Riverside Distributors Vienna hotelsRiverside Distributors, based in Iowa Falls, Iowa, is the nation's leading distributor and wholesaler of Christian products, providing more than 100,000 SKUs from more than 450 suppliers ranging from book and Bible publishers to music, gift, apparel, jewelry, and software companies. The Company's database is among the most comprehensive in the industry. Riverside is also a leader in business-to-business and business-to-consumer Internet commerce with its proprietary ReORDER (B2B) online service, FirstNetChristian.com (B2C), a virtual storefront for independent retailers and iDirect (3PF) online third-party order processing and fulfillment services. Founded in 1943, Riverside Distributors is a management-owned company focused exclusively on serving the Christian products market. For more information, visit www.riversidedistributors.com. About Syngistix Syngistix, Inc. provides supply chain management software solutions for distribution enterprises. The company specializes in providing low-risk migration paths from legacy systems to newer technologies. Its products include X!TE, an enterprise application suite focused on traditional distribution models and XPDT which focuses on the sell, source, ship distribution model. The company, which has a 25-year track record, was formerly known as Distribution Resources Company. With hundreds of customers and more than a thousand installations, Syngistix products increase customer efficiencies in product distribution, inventory reduction and customer service. Customers include Georgia Pacific - UNISOURCE, Corporate Express and TruServ Canada. For more information, email info@Syngistix.com., or visit www.Syngistix.com. Syngistix is a trademark of Syngistix, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. |