Expertek Systems announces RoadWizard
New Truck Scheduling and Routing Software
increases productivity, reduces costs

Marlborough, MA – April 27, 2004 – Expertek Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of products and services for the wholesale distribution market, today introduced RoadWizard™, a software product that simplifies dispatch planning for companies with small to medium sized fleets, enabling customers to reduce transportation costs, increase driver efficiency, and improve customer service.

RoadWizard is designed to automate delivery scheduling, dispatching, and route optimization using your customer data directly from your business system. The software enables your warehouse manager to schedule delivery routes as soon as orders are picked from the business system.

“To manually determine the delivery schedule for each truck would usually take us at least 2 hours per day to organize the data and set up the routes,” said Mike Ross, vice president of operations, Aristocraft Supply. “Then we would have to leave the actual delivery schedule and route up to the drivers. The experienced drivers were fine, but when we had new drivers, we never would know how efficient they were in driving or where they were at any time. The entire process of scheduling has been reduced to 15 minutes a day.”

Other key features of the RoadWizard product include:

• A visual map of your deliveries by truck, enabling you to make informed decisions about which truck will deliver what orders where and when.
• Integration with Microsoft MapPoint™ to provide driving directions and maps and estimated times and distances for each leg of a given truck's journey, giving you control over your delivery fleet. The printable and automatically generated maps are detailed, labeled for each stop, and feature a colored route line that simplifies getting to your destination.
• A useful electronic street directory that is a handy tool that can be used to resolve misspellings and addressing errors from orders within your business system. These problems get resolved before the trucks leave the warehouse so that your drivers stay on schedule to meet customer requirements.

“To remain competitive, distributors will need to advance beyond having a solid ERP system. They will have to automate their warehouse, shipping, and transport processes,” said Ken Mostello, president of Expertek Systems. “RoadWizard will enable them to schedule their deliveries more efficiently. The tools provided in the product allow management to be more cognizant of what happens when your trucks leave the loading docks. Knowing where every truck is and when every truck will deliver product to your customers will give you a level of service that your competitors cannot match.”

RoadWizard can run both standalone or integrated with NxTrend SX.enterprise, FACTS, and other ERP systems, making it automatic to retrieve the orders from the business system for scheduling, reducing time spent by the dispatcher. RoadWizard is available immediately and pricing is based on the number of trucks you want to schedule.

About Expertek Systems, Inc.

Expertek Systems provides practical software solutions in the manufacturing and wholesale distribution markets. For the past 12 years, they have offered customers products and services that automate and simplify key processes unique to this part of the supply chain market. For more information about RoadWizard or any of the Expertek products and services, visit www.expertek.com or call 508.624.0006.