Deloitte &
Touche LLP To Work With Ross Systems in Atlanta, GA, April 6, 1998 — Deloitte & Touche LLP, one of the world’s leading professional services firms, today announced a strategic alliance agreement with Ross Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROSS), a leading supplier of enterprise resource planning systems to process manufacturing industries. This arrangement brings together Deloitte & Touche implementation experience and the market-leading functionality of the Ross Renaissance® enterprise system to deliver superior business improvement opportunities to process manufacturers. "We help customers get more from their businesses while positioning for growth," said Joe Klaja, national Ross alliance leader for Deloitte & Touche. "Our success with Renaissance implementations demonstrates that a world-class process manufacturing system can be implemented in less than a year — and without the huge budget usually associated with this type of project. We combine the breadth and integration of Ross’ products with our industry knowledge and project management experience to help our mutual customers succeed." "Our agreement with Deloitte & Touche is an important part of our new strategy to expand the scope and diversity of our implementation consulting capabilities," said Dennis Vohs, chairman and CEO of Ross Systems. "The growth of our business in process manufacturing is dictating that we extend the capabilities of our own implementation resources. We have already established a proven track record with Deloitte & Touche over the past year and are very pleased to announce this new agreement. Through joint training activities and a sharing of implementation methodologies, we are now equipped to meet the growth demands of our ERP business." The customers served jointly by the two organizations includes leaders in the steel, chemical, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. Deloitte & Touche and Ross have already worked together in a large Texas-based food processing company which recently implemented Renaissance manufacturing, distribution and financials across four plants in less than nine months. "The Deloitte & Touche, Ross and the customer effort set out to deliver on crucial business improvement objectives under an extremely tight schedule," said Randy Cochran, project leader of the Deloitte & Touche team. He added that cooperation and a "roll up your sleeves" approach to the job meant immediate cost savings for the customer, as well as an ERP system that supports continuous business improvement. "Our customers appreciate the effective simplicity of our approach," explained Malcolm Marais, director of international consulting alliances for Ross, "because our joint methodology allows us to focus on customer needs and business improvement. The cumulative expertise and global capabilities of both our organizations works extremely well in the time-sensitive, effective delivery of enterprise solutions to our customers — without extravagant budgets." |