Partnership to Deliver Supply Chain Performance Management

March 1, 2003
SUNNYVALE, Calif.- (Mar. 05, 2003) Vigilance, Inc., and QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI) have entered into a partnership to deliver supply chain exception

SUNNYVALE, Calif.- (Mar. 05, 2003) Vigilance, Inc., and QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI) have entered into a partnership to deliver supply chain exception management and supply chain performance measurement solutions to the retail industry. As a part of the partnership, QRS has incorporated Vigilance’s exception management and performance measurement technologies into its QRS Insight™ product, which is currently available.

"Partnering with Vigilance has allowed us to rapidly develop a market leading solution for our customers," said Liz Fetter, president and CEO of QRS. "QRS Insight, using Vigilance’s technology, lets our customers manage their operations in real-time and detect and resolve critical supply chain issues to minimize blind spots across the supply chain to optimize business performance. QRS Insight is the newest addition to the QRS suite of collaborative commerce solutions and fills an important and unmet need throughout the entire retail value chain.”

The QRS and Vigilance product teams have developed a close working relationship to ensure that customers of the QRS Insight product will benefit from the deep expertise of both companies and that future enhancements to Vigilance’s core product offerings will be rapidly incorporated into QRS Insight.

“The Vigilance-QRS partnership provides an optimal solution for retail companies, as it brings together Vigilance’s customer-proven technology platform with QRS’s deep retail domain knowledge,” said Rocky Gunderson, president and CEO of Vigilance.

“This is the best of both worlds for customers, as they are able to work with a leading industry solutions provider who intimately understands their business, while also taking advantage of Vigilance’s market-leading supply chain performance management platform.”

QRS Insight is available for evaluation and purchase from QRS. For more information, please contact [email protected] or call 1-800-872-8255.