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Press Release

June 13, 2007

RedPrairie Integrated Warehouse – Fleet Solution Provides Seamless Delivery and Returns Process for Distributors

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – RedPrairie Corporation, a world leading consumer driven optimization company, announced today the integration of its recently acquired Fleet Management solution with its Warehouse Management suite, enabling distributors and other companies with dedicated fleets to seamlessly flow products from the shipping dock directly to their customers. It also efficiently processes returns, non-deliverables – especially critical in home delivery operations – and the disposition of reusable assets such as shipping containers, racks and totes.

Local distributors and retailers operating home delivery fleets have a different distribution model than manufacturers or other retailers. They have to synchronize their pick sequencing, packaging and staging with their fleet routing to ensure maximum efficiency and accuracy throughout the process. They also need to dynamically deal with last minute changes such as when a customer isn’t home, refuses an item, or returns a previous order.

Comments Tom Kozenski, RedPrairie vice president product strategy, “In the past, distributors used manual procedures or “siloed” systems to manage distribution and fleet operations. This caused disconnects that were inherently inefficient and could lead to customer service problems. Our new integrated approach provides the process workflows and visibility to make distribution, fleet routing and execution, and returns processing one seamless loop. Not only are the distribution and fleet functions more efficient, the integration of the two makes the whole more valuable than the sum of the parts, putting real savings into the distributors’ pockets.”

The integrated solution can create both static routes based on local delivery schedules and dynamic routes based on each day’s orders, with the ability to adapt those routes as events occur. The route / stop plan created is used by the Warehouse Management application to drive order processing, thus optimizing the distribution and fleet processes as well as the interaction between the two.


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RedPrairie Public Relations Contacts:

NORTH AMERICA
Kari Janavitz
+1 262 317 2526
Kari.Janavitz@redprairie.com

UK
Emma Easterbrook
+44 1435 873 080
Emma@FieldworksMarketing.co.uk

NORDICS, MIDDLE EAST, AND AFRICA
Patrick Qureshi
+45 3263 0021
Patrick.Qureshi@RedPrairie.com

MAINLAND EUROPE
Luc Zanders
+31 40 2302532
Luc.Zanders@RedPrairie.com

ASIA PACIFIC
Fauziah Osman
+65 6521 9554
Fauziah.Osman@RedPrairie.com

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