Kauri Business Systems and R. Reed & Associates have partnered to provide Procoll; a business process, collaboration, and workflow execution software.

Downers Grove, IL and Whitford, New Zealand -- November 12, 2003 -- Kauri Business Systems (Kauri), a provider of supply chain manufacturing and distribution software solutions, and R. Reed & Associates (RR&A), a leading business process management consultancy, today announced a comprehensive marketing partnership for delivering added state-of-the-art process improvements using Kauris Procoll business process collaboration and workflow execution software.

Organizations that engage RR&A to improve their business processes can now achieve even greater improvements by utilizing Kauris Procoll collaboration and workflow software to automate end-to-end business processes.

Kauri will take advantage of the expertise of the RR&A team to expedite and enhance the design improvement phase of their unique collaboration and workflow software implementation. The Procoll software provides control of every step of these processes. This will bring a new level of process management and control to Kauri and RR&A customers.

We are pleased to have R. Reed & Associates as our consulting partner in rolling out Procoll. This brings significant added value to our proposition for any company intent on improving their business processes to gain maximum benefit from their ERP and legacy systems investment," said Lindsay Rewcastle, President of Kauri.

Raymond M. Reed, President and founder of R. Reed & Associates adds, We believe that Procoll brings a new level to the management and control of business processes which has not been achievable in the past. The combination of both companies will bring significant benefits in top and bottom line performance to our joint clients."

About Kauri Business Systems. Kauri Business Systems is a New Zealand company specializing in business process collaboration in the supply chain, manufacturing, and distribution markets. Procoll was based on input from an advisory group of international companies seeking a product to provide linkages to their many disconnected information processes. Procoll leverages the collective experiences of Kauri in the manufacturing industry, furthering a tradition of improving profitability by streamlining, controlling and continuously improving the management of any business process. Visit www.kaurisystems.net   

About R. Reed & Associates. Since 1981, R. Reed & Associates has been helping clients master their supply chain by developing and implementing policies and practices across their business processes, people and technology. RR&A brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in manufacturing and distribution operations, bringing actionable solutions that leverage tools specifically designed to allow practitioners to model, implement and measure - in real time - streamlined business processes. RR&A is privately held and has headquarters in Downers Grove, Illinois. Visit www.rreed4scm.com