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Tony’s Fine Foods Selects Acorn Systems Profit Improvement Software to Compliment IDS ERP ImplementationSoftware Provides Order-level Profitability InformationSacramento, CA— July 17th, 2003 — Tony’s Fine Foods, a leading West Coast food distributor, today announced that it will implement Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer™ software on an enterprise-wide basis to increase profits and deliver the highest level of service, quality and selection in the company’s established product categories. The Acorn system will work in close harmony with the Integrated Distribution Solutions (“IDS”) Power Enterprise Food Distribution ERP system installed at Tony’s. With Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer, Tony’s Fine Foods will have rules-based enterprise-wide access to costing data without delay, so profit and loss information is available to the associates who can best leverage it. As an example, Tony’s Fine Foods will be able to use Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer Software to view and act on accurate fully loaded cost information of each customer, supplier and product down to the individual line item level of each order. "In making this selection, we spoke with several Acorn Systems and IDS clients and were very impressed with the quantifiable additional value IDS clients were able to get from the Power Enterprise products through Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer," said Scott Berger, CFO of Tony’s Fine Foods. "The ability to further increase our ROI on IDS as evidenced by the tremendous value Acorn Systems has delivered to customers via their technology innovation and expertise in the costing/profit arena for our industry, convinced us that we needed to implement Acorn Systems to further our business performance initiatives." Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer will enable Tony’s Fine Foods to gain increased accuracy, more actionable information and greater accessibility to its profit and loss information. Acorn's software can optimize the profitability of any customer, supplier, product or order dynamically or on an ongoing basis. Tony’s Fine Foods can use this new visibility into net operating profits and profit drivers to identify and expand best practices, negotiate for "win-win" profitability increases with customers and suppliers, optimize incoming orders, identify and grow the most profitable products and customers, and empower associates to drive profitability. "Tony’s Fine Foods has established market dominance in the categories it serves by providing the highest levels of service and selection through a combination of developing strong relationships with customers, suppliers and associates and by adding leading facilities, equipment and technologies to quickly and efficiently meet customer needs,” said J. Alex Fernandez, COO of Acorn Systems. "Acorn Systems is very pleased to have this opportunity to work with Tony’s Fine Foods. By leveraging the data from their IDS and other systems, Acorn Systems will further empower Tony’s Fine Foods associates with accurate order level profit and loss information so they can operate even more efficiently and profitably." “Tony’s Fine Foods is a true leader when it comes to leveraging information systems to make fact-based decisions surrounding their business activities,” said Todd P. Michaud, President of Integrated Distribution Solutions. “IDS has always been a strong supporter of the Acorn software because of its ability to add value to a given distributor’s use of our technology. I am certain that Tony’s Fine Foods will realize immense rewards from the combined use of IDS and Acorn.” About Tony’s Fine Foods About Acorn Systems About Integrated Distribution Solutions, L.L.C
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