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Pan-Oston program helps distributors improve estimate and order efficiency

June 24, 2009

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Pan-Oston has announced the release of its newest sales tool for its distributor customers. This Web-based C-Flex Order Configurator is designed to help Distributor Sales Professionals take off and configure the exact C-Flex counter system for their customers' convenience store, accurately price it and when approved, automatically transmit the order to Pan-Oston.

The interactive and proprietary tool gives distributor partners and their sales teams the ability to "build up" the style, functions, size, color, features, material selections and price of a C-Flex counter system at "Web speed." The C-Flex Order Configurator also improves the profitability of distributor partners by reducing estimate and order processing time and errors.
 
"Our goal with the C-Flex Order Configurator is to provide our customers and business partners with industry-leading tools and technologies that will streamline their sales processes and help them be more successful. This proprietary web-based program provides real-time product and pricing information and significantly reduces non value-added tasks and manual steps from the estimate and order cycle," said Jim Vance, president of Pan-Oston.

Pan-Oston's C-Flex Order Configurator has many useful features including the following:

o Security processes that require password specific feature access
o Interactive C-Flex catalog search feature
o Estimate and order history database file storage
o Real time quoting, estimating and order placement
o Checks and balances to ensure that product combinations or packages are configured

"Now with the C-Flex Order Configurator, we can quickly and accurately build-up the exact counter system for our customers," said Kymme Merrick, vice president of sales, C-Store Specialists. "The software calculates all the component numbers, our cost and the selling price then in seconds formats an estimate document that we email or send to our customers."