PISCATAWAY, NJ - To provide faster strategic response management and distribution services, BrownTrout Publishers, Inc. in San Francisco, California is implementing QSSI's PowerHouse/WMS warehouse management system.

BrownTrout set out to re-engineer their entire supply chain and was determined to select the best-of-breed for each of the three major supply chain software components. This included a new ERP system, a Warehouse Management System and a Traffic Management System. After obtaining bids and presentations from several warehouse management vendors, BrownTrout decided to implement QSSI's PowerHouse/WMS.

QSSI turned out to be a "one stop shop" for all the best of breed applications. "We introduced BrownTrout to Great Plains to fulfill their ERP requirements and Pitney Bowes (aka Transcape) to fulfill their Traffic Management requirements. As Business Partners of both Great Plains and Pitney Bowes, we have developed standard, seamless interfaces to both their software packages. This allowed BrownTrout to select the best-of-breed with no integration risk," says Harlan Dybdahl, Director of Sales and Marketing at QSSI.

Kenn Pogash, Director of Business Development and Strategic Alliances at QSSI was especially pleased to see the benefits of several months of cultivating relationships with Great Plains and Pitney Bowes. Mr. Pogash says that "one strategic goal for QSSI is to deliver comprehensive supply chain solutions by combining industry leaders with our expertise."

BrownTrout compliments QSSI's other leading fulfillment and e-commerce clients such as Time Warner Trade Publishing, Pets.com, Troll Books and Centric Corporation.

BrownTrout Publishers is the worlds largest producer of photographic calendars including many fine art titles, lighthouses, sports, wildlife, dog breeds, cats and travel titles. BrownTrout's product line also includes photographic books and postcard books.

QSSI is a well-established software development corporation specializing in the design and implementation of warehouse automation and inventory control systems Clients include Time Warner, Pets.com, Rust-Oleum, Owens-Illinois, and Rubbermaid. PowerHouse/WMS is QSSI's high powered, flexible, object oriented, client/server warehouse management system that brings real-time computerized management to the warehouse floor.

Quality Software Systems, Inc. is headquartered at 200 Centennial Avenue, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854. Phone is 732-885-1919; Fax is 732-885-1872.