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The combination of a happy customer and ease of effort creates a successful sales program. Through our Supplier Managed Inventory (SMl) Module, you can keep your products stocked to meet your customer demands without you or anyone else having to actively monitor the stocking levels or calculate replenishment requirements. Our SMI Module does it for you!

Program/Contract Sales Management

' lmproved Inventory Accuracy

' Increased Inventory Turns

' Reduced Data Entry and Errors

' Enhanced Business Relationships

' Additional Dollarstothe

Bottom Line

Our Program Sales Module keeps track of your customers inventory by product, by location and by the required time interval you need to replenish the appropriate stocking level. Inventory is monitored by our system against the minimum/maximum stocking levels you set for each product and each Customer store location, and against the inventory level for the available products in your inventory. The system will suggest replenrshment levels that can be completed automatically or reviewed and over ridden by the user. The managing company determines the appropriate procedure.

Consignment Inventory Management

Some customers require that you keep certain levels of products stocked in one of their locations. You retain ownership of the products while located at their location and do not get paid until the products are shipped from their location. While it is essential to keep an agreed level of products stocked at the various locations, it becomes even more critical that you have accurate, up to date information to manage your inventory levels appropriately and make informed sales and shipping decisions with the inventory on hand at your sales site.

Our Consignment Inventory Module will allow you to monitor each location's inventory level against historical sales and shipments, consider in-transit orders and ETA's, check on-hand inventory at your point of sale, and systematically recommend the level of replenishment by product and location. This will ensure that you will not have too much inventory sitting at the customer's location waiting for shipment, and allow you to get higher asset utilization from your inventory position.

Document Exchange and Integration

The W3Net'" SMI module will enable your company to administer your program sales with minimum effort. Our technology allows you to leverage your computer system and your trading partner's system to create a seamless information flow that greatly reduces your data entry costs. The added electronic collaboration takes much of the pain from the program sale and increases the efficiency of your process, which saves you and your partner time and money.

Dear Dr. Moore:

We hear a lot about tropical forests, but what can you tell me about the state of our own forests here in North America?

The news is good. North American forests cover about the same area of land as they did 100 years ago. Over the past decade our forests have expanded by nearly l0 million acres, according to satellite tracking data and two successive reports from the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (State of the World's Forests, 1997 and 200 l).

There are two main reasons for this. One is that advances in agriculture have enabled us to grow about

By Dr. Patrick Moore

for development or to grow something else.

This is a win for both the economy and the environment. Timber creates jobs, fuels economies and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. The land stays forested, thus providing habitat for hundreds of species of wildlife. So long as we plant enough trees to satisfy the demand for wood, North American forests will be sustainable.

five times as much food on each acre of farmland. As a result, we've been able to feed a growing population without converting any more forests into farms.

Another reason, surprisingly enough. is that North Americans use a lot of wood. We've been led to believe that this is bad, that each time we buy a piece of wood we cause a little more forest to be lost. On the contrary, every purchase of wood sends a signal into the marketplace to plant more trees and grow more valuable product. If we don't continue to use wood for building houses, making paper or crafting furniture, there will be little incentive to keep land forested. It could just as easily be cleared

Between them, Canada and the United States have about 1.75 billion acres offorest. About one billion acres are used to grow timber while the other 750 million acres are composed of parks, wilderness and non-commercial forest land.

Trees are the most abundant of the world's renewable resources and will continue to grow over much of the earth's surface indefinitely. I believe that a sensible environmentalist would weigh the facts and choose both to grow more trees and use more wood.

- Dr. Moore has been a leader of the environmental movement for more than 30 years. A co-founder and former president of Greenpeace, he holds a PhD in ecologl' and a BSc in fttrest biology. Send questions to patr ic k@ s e ns ib I e e nv r onme nt a I i s t.c om.

Solid homes. Solid value.

ROGUE VALLEY Hoo Hoo Club held its 1Oth annual Southern 0regon lumber industry Christmas luncheon Dec. 17 in Medford, Or. Judy McHugh and Tom Link, National Forest Service, spoke on the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project, (1) Cindy & Bruce Monson. (2) Scotty Scott, Alex Pappas. (3) Dick Maurer, Richard Wilson. (4) Jake Crews, Jeremy DaVee. (5) Julia Lewis, Ray lmus. (6) Dave Weaver, Rob Anno, Mike Young. (7) Rich Straiton, Cindy Johnson. (8) Eric Ford, Pete Reyneke, Rob Brown. (9) Nicole Williams, Chana Thornton. (10) Rick I/olatore, Jerry Fitzpatrick. (11) Dave Schott, Bob Dearmond. (12) Bob Fasel, John & Lois Weaver. (13) Jack Couch, Kathy Backes, Steve Parson. (14) Dave Stuart, Wally Hicks, Dave Schott, Hank Jensen. (15) Lee Greene, Kris Lewts.