SYSPRO customer Lakeshirts wins Progressive Manufacturing 100 award

COSTA MESA, Calif. - March 25, 2010 - SYSPRO, the leading provider of visionary, pragmatic ERP software, today announced that SYSPRO ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) customer, Lakeshirts, Inc., has been honored by Managing Automation Media with a Progressive Manufacturing 100 Award. The PM100 recognizes 100 projects that have achieved distinction in at least one of the eight core disciplines defined by Managing Automation Media as critical to business success in the years ahead. Lakeshirts' achievements were applicable to several categories, including: Business Model Mastery; Customer Mastery; Data & Integration Mastery; and Operational Excellence. Lakeshirts is therefore eligible to win the Progressive Manufacturer of the Year Award.

Based in Detroit Lakes, MN, Lakeshirts is a maker of promotional clothing products for resorts, golf and corporate entities. Using the world class SYSPRO enterprise solution, Lakeshirts has cut order processing time from as many as three days to a matter of minutes. The company maintains a library of more than 20,000 stock designs that can be customized with the names of a resort or golf club and applied to a variety of garments, including tee shirts, sweat shirts and golf shirts as well as caps. SYSPRO ERP Software has enabled Lakeshirts to achieve operational excellence, leveraging new efficiencies via SYSPRO's integrated data management and extensive inherent functionality. Utilizing SYSPRO e.net solutions, the Microsoft .NET underlying technology foundation of the SYSPRO product, Lakeshirts has achieved very dramatic time and cost savings by implementing SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) to automate numerous processes.