Profile Systems Posts 'The 4 Steps to Electronic Commerce'.

WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 1999--Profile Systems of West Springfield, Massachusetts is pleased to announce the web posting of a brief executive overview outlining the four steps to electronic commerce.

"We have been working for years at lowering the barriers for entry to electronic commerce and this is how we see it" stated Ed Heon, Profile CTO, "Everyone knows that's where business-to-business relationships are headed, and we think these steps put the path in perspective."

Profile Systems is the leading provider of software tools to the Electrical Industry for supplier assisted inventory management (SAIM) (a.k.a. vendor managed inventory or VMI). Since 1993, the company has been working with hard goods manufacturers and their distributors to accurately communicate product master data and point-of-sale information in an effort to align their inventory positions with service goals. Transaction costs are reduced and increased service levels result in sales growth for both parties.

Profile clients are market leaders including Stanley Tools, Honeywell, Hubbell Industries, ESAB Welding and Cutting, Danaher Tools, Osram Sylvania, American Saw and others. Profile's clients have succeeded in clearing implementation hurdles with the leading distributors in their industries and enabled those industries for further electronic trading. The "4 Steps" outline the process from an executive perspective.

The "4 Steps to Electronic Commerce" brief is available on the Profile Systems web site at http://www.profilesys.com/library/4steps.html or by e-mail request to [e-mail]. Profile Systems is located at 123 Interstate Drive, West Springfield, MA 01089. Telephone [phone] and fax [phone]. Visit our web site at www.profilesys.com.

About Profile Systems, Inc.

Profile Systems, Inc., founded in 1994, develops electronic commerce enabling tools for product synchronization and automatic replenishment to solidify trading relationships between suppliers and their customers in a variety of hard goods industries. Profile Systems' tools allow suppliers to use Windows(R) based technology to pull product master and trading data from throughout their enterprise to efficiently manage their electronic trading. Products include ProSYNC(R), to automate the flow of synchronized data between suppliers and their trading communities and ProSAIM(R), for managing trading relationships where automatic replenishment (CRP, SAIM, VMI) is the desired business model.