DOWNINGTOWN, PA - July 28, 2003 - ASSIST Corp., a leading solutions provider for the process manufacturing industry, announced today that Harris Ranch Beef has successfully upgraded to ADAGE 4.0. "The Harris Ranch upgrade offered no room for error" said Steve Carr, a Senior Consultant for ASSIST. "We have tens of thousands of scale interface and ASSISTics transactions hitting the system every day. If the system went down, we would have no way to recover".

"We took total ownership of all aspects of the upgrade" said Charlie Pell from ASSIST. "I'm glad we did. This successful transition has paved the way for a significant expansion of our solution at Harris Ranch."


About ASSIST.

Founded in 1998, ASSIST has earned a reputation for providing leading technology solutions to the ADAGE ERP community worldwide. With dozens of clients in North America and Europe, ASSIST has extensive experience working with manufacturers in many industries including food, chemicals, and agriculture.

ASSIST developed the ASSISTics Warehouse and Inventory Management solution as part of its continuing mission to provide practical shop floor applications for inventory visibility, transaction recording, and production planning. Built on a J2EE-compliant architecture using the latest bar-code hardware technology, ASSISTics makes it easy for your personnel to do their jobs while they update your ERP system for you.

ASSIST continues to apply technology in ways that automate the shop floor and provide business leaders with the information they need to run their operations better.