Enhance and automate your forms and business documents creation, maintenance and distribution. Go Beyond Printing:::

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1 Transactional and variable content document printing, output management and automated delivery. FOR LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Enhance and automate your forms and business documents creation, maintenance and distribution Transform your operations and supply chain management with better documents and goods tracking Eliminate manual handling Significantly reduce your operational costs Improve service and enhance your corporate image with attractive forms Logistics is indeed the driving force that moves commerce around the world. Now, PlanetPress Suite can be the driving force behind your logistics forms and documents. By printing your forms on-demand based on a customer s profile, you can eliminate manual handling delays and errors and generate the appropriate documentation every time, reducing problems and ensuring customer satisfaction. Go Beyond Printing:::

2 PlanetPress Suite moves your forms in the right direction Like many logistics companies, success depends on providing smooth, seamless order fulfillment and fast, accurate shipping. The business of moving goods from supplier to customer typically involves many complex processes: inbound and outbound transportation, fleet management, warehousing, materials handling, order fulfillment, inventory, supply/demand planning and more. And at almost every touch point across the supply chain, forms and documents keep the flow of goods and materials moving. Documents provide logistics operations, suppliers, and customers with real-time information for tracking, billing, customer service and fulfillment. Before Using PlanetPress Suite Using PlanetPress Yet, until now, the standard has been flimsy carbon copies and expensive pre-printed forms. Why continue struggling with an outdated forms system to support your state-of-the-art logistics operation? Whether you are using carbon paper, NCR, pre-printed forms, or other laser forms solutions, PlanetPress Suite can help you move to laser printing and produce high-quality documents at lower cost, on demand. PlanetPress Suite gives you a better way to create, print and manage logistics communications. And in an industry that relies on accurate information, better forms and labels can help you grow a more productive, competitive business. With one platform to design, distribute, archive and retrieve information, the PlanetPress Suite of integrated components provides the foundation you need to improve logistics communication and documentation. Updating your documents using PlanetPress Suite is easy. And the rewards include reduced costs and streamlined processes. With PlanetPress Suite as your business forms printing and workflow management solution, you'll be able to: Eliminate constant delays for design, printing and distribution of pre-printed forms Print customized forms on demand with real-time information and on-the-fly messages Implement an automated digital workflow for production, distribution and archiving Achieve greater workflow efficiency by eliminating manual steps and reducing errors Reduce costs, while increasing document quality and flexibility Eliminate time-consuming manual forms assembly and handling Increase customer satisfaction and enhance your corporate image Print complex forms and documents at high speed Improve legibility for better tracking and scanning Use PlanetPress Suite for all your logistics communications Invoices Price quotes Damage claims Letters Notices Shipping forms Manifests Bills of lading Pick lists Packing slips Freight bills Customs forms Reports 1

3 Documents that enhance your effectiveness and your corporate image PlanetPress Suite gives you the automated tools you need to create and print attractive, dynamic forms that enhance your company image and accelerate your supply chain documentation. Personalization adds value to your logistics documents, making them more versatile than pre-printed forms. You can enrich forms with industry standard and personalized barcodes, data driven pie, line and bar charts, variable data like addresses, legal clauses, marketing messages, and graphics such as customer logos. With PlanetPress Suite, you can rapidly modify documents to accommodate business changes, customer requests or regulatory requirements. Unlike preprinted forms, documents produced with PlanetPress Suite can be archived to third party CRM or ERP applications for a completely integrated and secure workflow without having to scan and manually index them. If you have forms originally created in MS Word, you can easily convert them to PDF format and import them into PlanetPress Suite. Laser Printing: the affordable alternative for quality forms Use color where it pays off With PlanetPress Suite, it's easy to add color for logos or to highlight important content. More important, PlanetPress Suite allows you to use color where it brings value. Print high visual color documents for your customers and print black and white copies for internal purposes such as archiving and interdepartmental communications. Too big of a step to color for all of your customers, PlanetPress Suite can even intelligently only print your top tier communications in color sending the rest to the monochrome printer. Bill Of Lading PlanetPress Suite uses laser printing as an affordable alternative to dated impact printing technology without having to make changes to your host system. The results are documents with more functionality, better quality, and greater media flexibility. By combining PlanetPress Suite-generated forms, laser printers, plain paper or NCR (non-carbon reproduction) paper, replace all of your cumbersome pre-printed multipart forms-while reducing costs. Create business documents and logistics forms using PlanetPress Suite, gaining complete control over distribution. Forms can be printed, faxed or ed directly at the location where they are needed for immediate access. Never run out of the forms you need, and the latest version is always utilized. Customers and suppliers still get the printed verification and information they want without messy, often illegible carbon copies. A commitment to reliable tracking Manifest In the logistics business, you know that success is measured by your ability to get materials from Point A to Point B quickly and efficiently and meet commitments on time. As your business grows, and you become more successful, this goal becomes increasingly challenging. A logistics operation might manage millions of packages across many different time zones, while maintaining stringent quality and service standards. The steady shift of commerce to the Internet not only compounds the volume and complexity of goods to be shipped, but increases the documents required to support them. When you can route and track goods automatically, your logistics operation is in a much stronger position to fulfill your promises and improve productivity. The key to reliable routing and tracking is clean, legible labelling. But when packages are exposed to weather and other harsh conditions, unprotected labels are easily altered or damaged PlanetPress Suite helps solve this problem by adding barcodes anywhere on any document. Laser print labels on plastic coated media, and you'll have always-readable barcodes that speed your packages through the supply chain. PackingSlip 2

4 Streamline communications with intelligent 2D-Barcodes With PlanetPress Suite, personalize barcodes for your customers' and partners' data systems. Automatically print 2D barcodes based on the fields logic of applications used by your partners and customers to speed up package tracking and eliminate errors due to manual data entry. 2D barcodes can easily be personalized to include the information that is needed by third-parties to accurately process your goods. With PlanetPress Suite, it is easy to configure the printed barcodes so that the information scanned follows the logic of fields of your partners applications. One scan and the information is automatically entered in the system and 100% accurate. Simplify document production If you currently assemble multi-page bills of lading, packing slips, manifests and other shipping documentation using traditional manual methods and preprinted forms, here s a valuable opportunity to drive time and costs from your supply chain. PlanetPress Suite can automate document production based on pre-set conditions to eliminate manual forms assembly and distribution. Whenever a particular document set or forms are needed, PlanetPress Suite can immediately print any number of copies, complete with prepopulated data and sequenced with 100 percent accuracy. Imagine the time you ll save and the confidence you ll have in your documentation. Gain immediate benefits with PlanetPress Suite and laser printing & images PlanetPress Document Barcode Data PlanetPress Watch Packing Slip Bill Of Lading PDF PDF Archive Manifest Crisp, legible output on a variety of affordable media Elimination of expensive, inflexible pre-printed forms Flexibility to print the most current forms when and where they are needed Ability to print and deliver documents in sequences On demand printing at local offices or customer sites Consistent application of content rules and conditions Agility to make quick local and global changes to forms With fast, easy changes, your forms are always current Until recently, there hasn't been an easy way to keep logistics forms current. Every modification meant printing a new batch of pre-printed forms, while existing supplies went to waste. Want to use a logo, correct your phone number, or add contact information for a new branch office? PlanetPress Suite makes it simple. Just open the appropriate form, modify and save your changes. Once a change is made, each location automatically uses the most current version the very next print run. Changes can be made globally for all locations, or for individual locations. No need to toss out-of-date pre-printed forms, then wait for new ones to arrive. 3

5 Leverage forms data for business advantage Maintaining an edge in today's fast-paced marketplace means having ready access to real-time tracking and delivery information. PlanetPress Suite gives you the flexibility to produce data in the format best suited to your business need, whether printed at a specific location, as a PDF output that is automatically mailed out, as a fax or as an image along with an index file to hand off to your archival solution or all of the above. PlanetPress Suite also shortens your Days Sales Outstanding with it's ability to look at the data at the customers' preferred delivery methods, as a hard copy, or fax, and deliver as such. When your invoices get out faster, revenues often come in faster, too. With PlanetPress Suite, deliver and use logistics information in ways that simply were not possible with static pre-printed forms. Do you need summary information sorted by customer for spreadsheet analysis? In the past, getting this type of data from AS 400 and Unix systems was time-consuming and difficult at best. PlanetPress Suite collects key information from existing print data to generate spreadsheets or update databases. Get the information you need when you need it without having to wait for your busy IT department. PlanetPress Suite can leverage the same data source for a variety of forms without having to recreate or re-key data each time. The system extracts content automatically from a central location and places it everywhere it is needed. It's a far more efficient, consistent and accurate process that helps you: Integrate electronic and printed communications like order confirmations Accurately coordinate contents of documents with contents of shipments Eliminate time wasted and errors incurred in re-keying data Close the loop with more accurate scanning Delivery documents often return marked up with notes. Closing the loop means scanning them into a document management system. The problem is, most original forms created on impact printers have poor legibility, making successful scanning a hit or miss prospect. With laser printed PlanetPress Suite documents and their high quality barcodes, delivery notes can be scanned in fast, efficient batches and automatically indexed with impressive accuracy. Documents that drive your business You may not have control over snow blizzards, power outages, fuel prices or other logistics nightmares, but with PlanetPress Suite, you can manage and improve your document productivity. When you can quickly produce, distribute and search documents, you greatly reduce your operational costs, and the savings in response times can be measured in days. Logistics is indeed the driving force that moves commerce around the world. Now, PlanetPress Suite can be the driving force behind your logistics forms and documents. PlanetPress Suite softwares Enable design and printing of transactional and variable content documents. Automated workflow tool to capture and route documents to their destination. Automatically generate PDF, TIFF or JPG files for and archive. Locate and retrieve indexed PDF files created with PlanetPress Image. Transmit documents through a fax board or server. Gain flexibility for printing variable content documents on iseries servers. 4

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