Freeport, TX (September 17, 2001)---Elite Logistics, Inc. (OTC BB:ELOG), a leader in the fast-growing telematics and asset management industry today announced a strategic alliance with Productive Data Systems, Inc. (PDS) to provide PDS’s material tracking system customers with tracking and status information that will produce bottom line savings through enhanced supply chain visibility and process improvements.
Elite and PDS have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that provides for the integration of Elite’s PageTrack® telemetry systems with PDS’s suite of inventory tracking and database management software. PageTrack’s ability to gather and communicate cargo status and GPS-based location information to PDS’s backend database systems will improve customer supply chain management, reduce errors and enhance achievement of customer expectations for on-time delivery and accuracy. Supply chain managers will be freed to better serve their organizations by focusing on savings and service improvement opportunities rather than the mundane and repetitive tasks of manually following up on material delivery status. Visibility into the supply chain will also allow customers to better manage their inventory levels.
“Our company takes pride in providing our clients innovative ideas to introduce new, more efficient ways of doing business.” Stated Michael J. Mitchell, Regional Vice President. “We are in the business of providing quality information to our clients that help them to increase revenues and decrease costs. By integrating our web based material tracking solutions with Elite’s PageTrackÒ GPS tracking system, we will be able to directly affect our clients bottom line by providing comprehensive inventory location and status information.”
Elite’s PageTrackâ asset tracking and monitoring system combines the global positioning system and two-way wireless communications technology with the Internet to facilitate on-line tracking, control and monitoring of valuable objects in transit. PageTrackâ users can log onto Elite’s web site and view on a map the current position of their asset and obtain detailed information such as speed, direction of travel, longitude, latitude, street location and even travel history. PageTrackâ provides a cost-effective means for both individuals and businesses to remotely monitor and control their vehicles or other mobile and fixed assets. PageTrackâ owners can monitor their vehicle or receive an event notification (e.g. alarm activation) via a secure Internet link, a two-way pager, an Internet access-enabled cellular phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or by contacting Elite’s 24-hour Customer Support Control Center.
Elite Logistics, Inc. is the parent company of Elite Logistics Services, Inc., its wholly owned operating subsidiary based in Freeport, Texas. Elite is best known for its patent-pending PageTrack® family of Intelligent Asset Management Systems that integrate global positioning systems and two-way wireless telemetry technology to provide Internet-enabled tracking and control of vehicles and other assets. The Company provides a comprehensive solution to the logistics needs of fleet managers and security needs of private vehicle owners. The PageTrack® family of Intelligent Vehicle Systems is distributed internationally through an expanding network of distributors and dealers. Elite is a certified value-added integrator for Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and utilizes the paging network of SkyTel, a subsidiary of MCI WorldCom (NASDAQ: WCOM). For additional information, visit the Company’s Internet site at www.elitelog.com
Founded in 1987, PDS is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and maintains 12 major branch offices and 11 other locations nationwide. PDS offers a comprehensive range of knowledge management products and services to a wide variety of corporate and government-related entities. Best known among these products are the Automated Materiel Tracking System, AMTS®, an in-transit inventory tracking and accountability system built for the US Air Force and the Defense Logistics Agency and Taction®, a patented business intelligence data visualization engine capable of handling massive amounts of data in the TB (1012) to PB (1015) range, real-time. Clients capitalizing on PDS’s innovative approach to doing business include major corporations such as Qwest, Schwab, MCI and Kodak, and the US Government’s Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture and Department of Energy. For additional information, visit the Company’s product internet site at www.sabioso.com
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