Choice Logistics and Vistant Join Forces to Provide
End-to-End Service Parts Logistics Solution

Leaders Providing Quantifiable Results Through Integrated Solutions

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, June 15, 2004 – Choice Logistics, a global leader of mission-critical service logistics and supply chain solutions, and Vistant, a leader in supply control and visibility solutions for industry, today announced an alliance that combines Vistant’s unmanned forward-stocking technology solutions with Choice’s real-time inventory control and visibility, reverse logistics, and transportation services. The two companies have been providing services to both individual and joint clients for the past four months.

Companies can now have full visibility and control over their logistics functions with the combination of Choice Logistics and Vistant’s accurate collection and real-time dissemination of service logistics information. Delayed and inaccurate data expands the distance between supply and demand, resulting in a serious lack of visibility and control. Enterprise resource planning systems will no longer operate in the blind and can now act upon the entire service parts chain, including the customer consumption point.
Companies that do not address this will continue to have service and logistics time delays that magnify operational costs due to stock outs, service level agreement penalties, technician overtime, and decreased customer satisfaction.

“Vistant has enabled us to offer our clients the industry’s most comprehensive outsourcing option and to go well beyond our network of over 250 active strategic stocking locations,” said John Miller, vice president of business development for Choice. “We have reduced the service parts response window to minutes, not hours, by streamlining the high tech service logistics landscape, enabling our clients to meet their unique business needs.”

“The benefits our joint clients are realizing support a strong proposition for virtually all high technology service organizations,” said Garrett Gafke, Vistant’s group vice president. “Choice’s reputation as the leading mission-critical, same-day logistics service provider and technology prowess combined with Vistant’s strong foundation in demand management and supply automation combine to present a win-win situation for any company looking to have the best service parts operations available.”

About Choice Logistics
With over 250 strategic stocking locations (SSLs) around the world and 24x7x365 logistics services for direct management of mission-critical inventory assets, Choice Logistics is a preferred global provider of outsourced logistics and integrated inventory management solutions. Leading companies including Avaya, Cisco, EMC, Equant, Hitachi Data Systems, and others have selected Choice for their third party logistics needs. To learn more about Choice Logistics, visit www.choicelogistics.com; call (800) 593-2108, or e-mail info@choicelogistics.com.

About Vistant Corporation
San Diego-based Vistant offers a diverse line of inventory control technologies offered in a variety of control levels. Control point systems range from quick access, open-shelving solutions to high-security cabinets. Vistant’s solutions are designed to automate the management, distribution, and control of direct materials, MRO supplies, tools, parts and chemicals within factories, laboratories, research centers and production facilities. All Vistant products are web-enabled, providing real-time inventory and usage reports. Additional information about this technology is available at www.vistant.com.

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Peter Nilsson,
President
Performance Public Relations Inc.
770.886.4295

Bryan Kester, Sr. Manager
SPL Group, Vistant Corp.
415-292-7192