Business Now:  Welcome to Business Now.  I'm Karen Ryan.  

For the people who are in the business of saving lives, details like payroll 
and computer networks are not the main focus but they are necessary.  
Business Now's  Len Deibert found a company with Innovative solutions for 
Logistical nightmare. 

Len Deibert speaking: Business Now : When the US Coast Guard is rescuing someone 
from a raging sea, the last thing on the mind of the rescuers is logistics.  
The Coast Guard is better able to perform rescue missions and drug intradiction  
because day to day concerns  of logistics management have been solved with the 
help of WR Systems.  

Adm. John Tozzi, USCG (ret.) speaking: Vice President, Syntek Technologies, Inc. 
talking: Logistics provides the underpinning for success and and WR has put together 
a magnificient system, very very customer oriented, very customer focused, uh has 
been able to keep an ontrack to achieve the goals of the customers as well as to 
develop very elegant solutions.

Len Deibert speaking: Adm. John Tozzi was the assistant Coast Guard commander for 
systems and chief information officer.  At the time, Coast Guard logistical 
operations were modernized by the Fairfax-based firm (WR Systems).  WR Systems 
replaced 37 different computer systems with a new system that consolidates and 
integrates coast guard fleet supply operations.  As part of that technology, the 
Coast Guard engineering logistic center is using EIL Squared software developed by 
WR Systems.  The man who led the development team Mark Trevor (speaking in the 
background) believes the software is three to four years ahead of the curve.  

Mark Trevor - Dir, Software Logistics, WR Systems speaking : The pay off is in the 
integration between supply, finance, purchasing and the other modules in the 
Eil Squared.  This integration improves accuracy, speed and reduces the need for 
redundancy or duplication of work. 

Lincoln Hallen - District 2 Director speaking: International Society of Logistics: 
The new technology is very important for logistics and movement of goods and services.

Len Deibert speaking: In a recent survey Coast Guard is one of two agencies receiving 
an A for management.  And one of three earning an A for information technology.  

Tajr Hall - Dir., Strategic Planning - WR Systems speaking:  I think any industry that 
has to manage large capital and assets can use this system. You can find that in 
Airline industries, utilities, shipping industries - anybody that's got a large 
assette.  We see this right now as going after utilities, maybe even the medical 
logistics market.  

Len Deibert speaking:  WR Systems is a company that knows logistics.  It developed 
that specialty from real life experience.  Here at Norfolk, it tracks sixteen 
thousand line items of inventory worth eighty five million dollars.  The inventory is 
used to overhaul and refurbish Navy and coastguard navigation systems.

Dave Edwards, Vice President - WR Systems speaking: The bottom line is, we have been 
able to save the government twenty three million dollars since 1996.  

Len Deibert speaking: While the repair facilities and supply chain management, the 
company uses its own software.  

Dave Edwards, Vice President - WR Systems speaking: We designed it for what we're doing.
We need to be competitive, we need to be efficient, our customers need be able to know 
that we've reliable data.  WR Systems is a winning team.  We solve customer problems. 

Len Deibert speaking:  That reputation attracted former Assistant Secretary of Defence 
Fred Pang to WR Systems. Pang is launching a new military web portal  - Offduty.com.   

Fred Pang, Chairman - Offduty.com, Inc. speaking:  The bottom line is we make sure that 
we do good customer service and that's how WR Systems will help.  This is a company that 
has an outstanding - an outstanding track record in E-Commerce and web based solutions.

Len Deibert speaking: President Ray Yu prefers to let customers think for the company. 
But his firm's 17 year track record and dedicated employees also speak volume.  

Ray Yu, President - WR Systems speaking: I can tell without any hesitation that we've 
never failed.  

Len Deibert speaking:  Today, more that three hundred employees are delivering software, 
engineering, logistics and web based solutions in more that thirty locations in the US, 
Puerto Rico and the virgin Islands.     

Ray Yu - President - WR Systems speaking: We hope the legacy of the work that we have 
done for the Coast Guard will be that the world and the government realizes that it was 
the foundation for the enterprise assett management logistic supply systems for the future.  

Len Deibert speaking:  And along with it's Eil Squared software, Yu expects the company to 
be a new generation of dot com with real products and real profits.  

I'm Len Deibert from Business Now.