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From The CEO

EDI represents a unique opportunity to better serve your clients at the same time as improving your internal operations. EDI is a learning process, and we enjoy helping our customers take advantage of our system.

We see ourselves as a customer driven company, and we conti- nuously improve our products to better meet your needs. At DiCentral, we’re pleased to think we somehow contribute to our customers’ success.

Your feedback is critical to improving our service.

In this month’s newsletter, we feature two companies relatively new to EDI. Both have been growing their trading community since they first started using our services.

DiCentral has connections to more than 400 major retailers. And new connections are added everyday.

We focus on EDI so you can focus on business.

Thuy Mai, CEO

September 2005 Newsletter

New "do it yourseft" feature

Add new strading partners with a mouse click

Starting this month, you can add new trading partners to your list – on your own!

The new service is accessible through your DiCentral Web account and available around the clock.

Register with a few mouse clicks, and we take care of the rest.

Here’s how it works:

1. Connect to your Web account and access the automatic add-on from there.
2. To your current list of trading partners (viewable in the left window above), add connections by selecting them from the list of available partners (the middle window above).
3. Once you confirm your addition, within 24 hours you will receive an acknowledgement from DiCentral.

Our provided list of trading part- ners is not limited. We add new connections everyday and can connect you to any business partner.

If one of your trading partners is not currently available, using our new feature you can automatically send your request to us, and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

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Control your transactions

Texas Supplier Makes The Switch to DiCentral

To continue doing business with his big retail customers, Billy Gerke was told he had to use EDI.

So Gerke – owner of Foreverlast, Inc., a small Texas manufacturer of high quality fishing and hunting products – found an EDI service bureau.

Foreverlast’s customers include Academy and Cabela’s, two big retailers who require their suppliers to be EDI compliant.

“We started outsourcing our EDI transactions to a service bureau,” says Gerke, “and I can say that at the time, we really perceived EDI as a burden. We would pay a fee to the service bureau to end up doing more paper work, continue sending and receiving our transactions by fax, and still undergo extra delays and errors due to the manual handling of our documents.”

But it wasn’t long before Gerke had had enough. He investigated the possibilities offered by EDI and decided to switch from their service bureau to DiCentral.

“Now I see EDI as a genuinely great B2B tool” says Gerke. “Using DiCentral’s services helped us increase our efficiency and improve our customer service. We soon realized the benefits of EDI on our side. Less paper work, more control over our documents. Since we started using DiCentral’s services, we’ve cut our transaction time by 15 percent.”

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Superior Customer Service

DiCentral's Service & Price Win Over OIE America

When California - based apparel wholesaler OIE America started supplying Kohl’s department stores, OIE was told to send its business documents electronically.

“Selecting our EDI provider was an important choice” says Maritza Hernandez, OIE America EDI coordinator. “When we started using DiCentral’s services, we were totally new to EDI and wanted a provider who could accompany us in our first steps and combine superior customer service and cost effectiveness.”

The quest for efficiency in the retail industry’s supply chain has transformed the way OIE does business, says Hernandez. “We suppliers are confronted with two paradoxical requirements,” she says. “On the one hand, we need to be more responsive and streamline the communication flow, while on the other hand, we need to meet continuously changing business requirements, decrease the time we spend processing orders, and minimize errors.”

Since they started sending electronic documents, DiCentral has enabled OIE to increase efficiency and extend the wholesaler’s con- nections to other hubs such as Mervyn’s and Belk Stores.

“EDI is a learning process, and the DiCentral technical team’s respon- siveness enables us to focus on our core business and receive help whenever we need it,” concludes Hernandez.

Dream Job

With its cutting edge technology, DiCentral plays a key role in helping companies make the most of e-business opportunities and maximize their supply chain efficiency.

At DiCentral, we believe in our people. Our employees share a common commitment to the company’s innovative spirit and work in a dynamic environment to deliver our superior customer service.

We are always interested in individuals with experience in customer service, sales, programming and marketing. Whether the position you are looking for is posted or not on our website (www.DiCentral.com), we encourage you to learn more about DiCentral and submit your resume. Your dream job maybe waiting for you!

Headquartered in south Houston, DiCentral Corporation reaches a nationwide customer base.

DiCentral Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer, which means we extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard for race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, handicaps or veterans status.

If you would like to apply for a position with us, please contact us.

Send your resume to:

Lori Davis

Human Resources Manager 281-480 1121 ext 117