RICHMOND, B.C., July 30, 2003

Progressive Solutions Inc. of Richmond, BC, Canada is introducing Express Track™, a faster – and more affordable – way to implement its flagship product, Lumber Track™.

Lumber Track is the premier business software solution for wood products companies. Its integrated modules offer comprehensive inventory, transaction and logistics information management. “Lumber Track is an extremely flexible product that has traditionally been custom configured to support any and all wood products operations,” comments Len Williams, President and CEO of Progressive Solutions. “Thanks to the architecture of our new Lumber Track V7 release, we can now tailor Lumber Track to better match the needs of specific wood products sectors,” Williams explains.

“Over the years, we’ve installed our software at a lot of primary and secondary operations, and we’ve come to understand the business processes and information needs that many of them have in common – and learned best practices,” Williams continues. “What we’re introducing is a new Lumber Track implementation process in which we pre-configure and scale the system to what we have seen many sawmill and remanufacturers really need. With fewer parameters to configure, the implementation is much faster.”

The new implementation process, called Express Track, addresses the common needs of many one-and two-site primary and secondary manufacturers. Express Track’s time and cost savings result from two main sources:
     1. Scaling Lumber Track’s feature set to address only those functions applicable to a typical single- or dual-site
         sawmill or remanufacturing operation.
     2. Using pre-configured parameters to reduce the amount of time it takes to configure and install the software.

Williams sums up, “If your company’s business practices are quite typical, getting up and running with Lumber Track will be faster and more affordable.”

About Progressive Solutions Inc.
Progressive Solutions Inc. is the international leader in business software solutions for the forest products industry. Founded in 1989, the company is headquartered in Richmond, BC, with sales offices across the US, UK and Canada. Its products address the procurement, sales, inventory and logistics management needs of sawmills, panel mills, remanufacturers, wholesale/ distributors and building materials distributors/dealers with domestic and export markets.