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16 January 2001, Hampton, NH (USA) — Cerqa Copyright has purchased VISUAL Supply Chain, Lilly Software’s comprehensive end-to-end supply chain management software solution.

Cerqa Copyright, located in Austin, Texas, provides supply chain management solutions for domestic and international manufacturing facilities, distributors, retail outlets, and other customers that have specific procurement and distribution channel requirements. Offering expertise in inventory procurement, logistics, and freight management, Cerqa develops flexible, Just-in-Time (JIT) inventory delivery programs and offers kitting and packaging of sub-assemblies and finished goods.

The VISUAL solution chosen by Cerqa Copyright will provide the company with complete control over high volume order management, customer and vendor communication, production processes, quality control, and warehouse operations.

“We chose VISUAL Supply Chain because it was an all encompassing product,” explains Marion Robertson, IT Systems Support Manager for Cerqa. “In our search, we looked at a lot of WMS vendors but found they could not offer a system to meet our every need. We didn’t want to purchase add-on modules; we wanted a single solution that would cover manufacturing and distribution.”

Lilly Software’s integrated supply chain suite includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Quality Management, E-business, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Warehouse Management System (WMS) capabilities. VISUAL DCMS^™, the advanced RF-enabled WMS application within the VISUAL suite, impressed Cerqa with its advanced functionality to track costs and manage inventory from point-of-receipt through storage and shipping.

“There are quite a few WMS players in today’s marketplace, but not many with robust warehouse capabilities found in VISUAL DCMS. Smaller still is the number of companies that provide an integrated supply chain suite, which is what makes Lilly Software’s solution unique,” says Raymond Head, Sales Associate for Lilly Software Associates. “The ability of VISUAL DCMS to operate as an execution-based stand alone system or to be integrated to a client’s specific host application is a distinct advantage over competitive systems. And with the explosive growth in the contract warehousing and Third Party Logistic (3PL) industries, VISUAL DCMS’ inherent 3PL management functionality places Lilly Software in a solid position to meet this growing demand.”

About Lilly Software Associates

Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL Enterprise™ suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data about all their business processes using ERP, Project Management, Business Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the tools they need for higher productivity and profitability.

Most VISUAL^® applications run on Windows^® 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX^®, LINUX, Novell^®, using SQLBase^®, Microsoft SQL Server^®, or ORACLE^® relational databases.

Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of Consumer Goods Technology, listed in Software Magazine's Top 500, selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top 100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain e-Business, included in MSI's Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of Start magazine's Hottest Companies.