August 30th, 2010 - Next month dozens of buyers from across North America will fly to Atlanta for the K3S Customer Conference 2010. This year companies attending the conference will represent the following industries:
Auto Parts
Convenience Stores
Food
Hardware
Heating, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration
Liquor, wine and beer
Pharmaceuticals
Tires

August 5th, 2010 - K3S would like to welcome Thomas & Howard Company (Columbia, SC) as a new customer. Thomas & Howard provides full-line, full-service distribution to convenience stores and small grocery stores, located in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. They also operate many wholesale/retail outlets in South Carolina and North Carolina.

July 29th, 2010 - K3S landed safely in Kitty Hawk, NC for the annual 2010 North Carolina/Virginia Wholesalers and Distributors Joint Convention. K3S was one of this year’s many sponsors, and also participated in the members/supplier exhibitor forum.

June 25th, 2010 - Several K3S customers will participate on a project about Temperature Influenced Replenishment. Water, Gatorade and drinks in the South experience a large lift in the summer. K3S seasonal profiles enable a buyer to order properly during this time. However, when an early burst of heat occurs, like we experienced in the South this June, a buyer needs additional help to stay ahead of the curve. The project will include a discussion of the daily import of temperatures by zip code (actual and projected) from the web, to help influence future requirements.

June 1st, 2010 - K3S turns 20! For the past 2 decades K3S has been serving distributors and retailers across North America. Our goal has been to provide software and services that enable our customers to become more profitable through “smarter buying”.

May 12th, 2010 - DPS will host a webinar for K3S on June 22nd at 11 AM EST entitled

“7 Steps to Successful Inventory Replenishment Planning”.

April 20th, 2010 - K3S will attend The Southern (Southern Association for Wholesale Distributors) to be held this summer in Savannah, GA. The “show days” are June 18th and 19th. Come visit our booth #312 and see K3S-Replenish ® running on an iPad.

April 2nd, 2010 - BCD incorporates several K3S screens into its new 2 minute video for Presto™ 2. K3S has developed its GUI (graphical user interface) using Presto™ 2, which enables buyers to place purchase orders through K3S-Replenish ® with any browser, even the new iPad.

March 15th, 2010 - DPS and IBM develop video clip about K3S smarter buying. Through the IBM Business Partner program DPS and K3S team up to help distributors better manage inventory.

March 1st, 2010 – K3S announces their K3S Customer Conference 2010 to be held in Atlanta from September 15th through 17th at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

February 5th, 2010 - K3S would like to welcome Southco Distributing Company (Goldsboro, NC) as a new customer. Southco is a complete convenience store and food service supplier that serves North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia.

January 4th, 2010 - Ohio Valley Wholesale (Grayson, KY) becomes the 1st K3S customer to install the latest K3S R5.05 release dated January 1st, 2010. The new release includes 17 enhancements to help buyers improve their “smarter buying” practices.

December 30th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome Renfro Supply Company (Williamsburgh, KY) as a new customer. Renfro Supply serves retail stores, schools, and other businesses throughout southeast Kentucky as well as eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Renfro has been a family owned and operated business since 1922.

December 12th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome Duncan Supply Company (Indianapolis, IN) as a new customer. Duncan Supply is a wholesale distributor of refrigeration, air conditioning, heating equipment, and accessories. They have been in business since 1936 and serve the areas of central Indiana and Illinois.

December 8th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome F.J. Wadden & Sons Ltd. (Mount Pearl, Newfoundland,Canada) as a new customer. F.J. Wadden & Sons provides a full range of products to support independent grocers, food service restaurants, drug stores, convenience stores, gas bars, and institutions. They have been in business since 1907 serving Newfoundland and Labrador.

November 12th, 2009 - K3S announces that the very first K3S purchase order was approved with the new web-based graphical user interface at Parts Central (Macon, GA). Scott Wynn (purchasing agent) is working with the development team to stress test the new tool.

October 23rd, 2009 – JT Davenport & Sons (Sanford, NC) takes advantage of the improved performance included in the newer K3S R5 Store Level night job interface. The older K3S Release 4 night job interface took a little over an hour to process each night at JTD. The new K3S R5 Store Level process now runs in a little under 3 minutes at JTD.

October 8th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome A. H. Pritchard, Ltd. (Nassau, Bahamas) as a new customer. A.H. Pritchard, Ltd. is one of the largest wholesale food distributors in the Bahamas, selling to supermarkets, convenience stores, and food service companies.

September 22nd, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome Allison Wholesale, Inc (Paint Rock, AL) as a new customer. For over 62 years Allison Wholesale has been servicing customers in Alabama and Tennessee.

September 18th & 19th, 2009 - The K3S Customer Conference 2009 was held at the Ga Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta. There were 26 buyers from 17 K3S customer sites attending the day and a half conference. Sessions included: “Best practices utilizing K3S-Replenish ®”, the new K3S Customer Support facilities, looking at the next K3S R5.05 Release scheduled for January 2010, and looking at some of the “smart” ways K3S customers have used K3S-Replenish ® to their advantage. Two K3S customers spoke at the conference: Larry Gerke from Les Schwab Tires, and Pete Lippe from Core-Mark International. The final session was a demonstration of the new K3S Graphical User Interface which is projected for availability in 2010.

DPS (a K3S Business Partner) was a sponsor for the event.

August 28th, 2009- K3S would like to welcome Raben Tire Company (Evansville, IN) as a new customer. Raben Tires is one of the largest tire and automotive companies in the Midwest with over 25 locations in six states.

July 28th, 2009 - K3S has been invited to speak on Inventory Management at the DPS User Conference 2009 to be held in Indianapolis this September. This past June IBM announced that DPS had won the “Excellence in the Mid-Market” IBM Beacon award.

June 5th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome A.J. Silberman & Company (Indianola, PA) as a new customer. For over 70 years A.J. Silberman has been providing products and services throughout Western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio and West Virginia

May 11th, 2009- K3S would like to welcome Modern Distributors, Inc. (Somerset, KY) as a new customer.

May 1st, 2009 - K3S will attend The Southern (Southern Association for Wholesale Distributors) to be held this summer in Louisville, KY. The “show days” are June 19th and 20th. Come visit our booth #411.

April 29th, 2009 - K3S adopts the powerful and easy to use Help Desk 2.0 tool from Zendesk to help customers report issues. Customers can either send an email to support@k3s.com or begin their request at support.k3s.com.

April 17th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome John L. Gaddy Wholesale (Hickory Grove, SC) as a new customer.

March 27th, 2009 – K3S announces their Customer Conference to be held in Atlanta on September 18th & 19th at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center.

March 22nd, 2009 - USA Drug becomes the first K3S customer to install IBM’s V6R1 Operating System. Since they use the latest K3S-Replenish ® application called K3S R5 (Release 5), then their K3S migration was seamless, and no additional programming efforts required.

March 2nd, 2009 – JT Davenport & Sons and Skidmore Sales are taking advantage of the new K3S Release 5.04 (dated January 19th, 2009) which better enables a company to set up a test environment for buyers. Now their new buyers and veteran buyers can sign on to K3S-Replenish ® - Warehouse to try new functions or simulate adjustments without disrupting their production environment.

January 26th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome Standard Distributing (Sapulpa, OK) as a new customer. Standard Distributing is a complete convenience store supplier serving all of Northeastern Oklahoma and part of Southwestern Missouri.

January 16th, 2009 - K3S would like to welcome Resnick Distributors (New Brunswick, NJ) as a new customer. Resnick Distributors is a full service distributor of packaged products serving the East Coast from Maine to Virginia.

December 29th, 2008 – LP Shanks becomes the 4th K3S customer in the C-Store Industry to migrate over to the new K3S R5 application.

December 22nd, 2008 – Bartell Drugs becomes the 3rd K3S customer in the CDC (Chain Drug Consortium, LLC) to migrate over to the new K3S R5 application.

November 21st, 2008 - USA Drug becomes the 2nd K3S customer in the CDC (Chain Drug Consortium, LLC) to migrate over to the new K3S R5 application.

November 20th, 2008 - All 25 Core-Mark International distribution centers in Canada and the United States have migrated over to the new K3S R5 application.

November 1st, 2008 - K3S would like to welcome Les Schwab Tires as a new customer. Les Schwab Tires is one of the leading independent tire dealers in the United States with more than 400 store locations throughout the western United States.

October 27th, 2008 - K3S receives the new IBM Power 520 Express server. The IBM server uses the new IBM Power6 processor (world's fastest chip), and K3S had it pre-loaded with the operating system level at IBM i 6.1 (Version 6 Release 1) so that K3S can be ready for customers who have that level of operating system requirement.

October 24th, 2008 - Two more K3S customers begin to experience the power of K3S diverter buying. During the past few months both  Bartell Drugs (Seattle, WA) and  LP Shanks  (Crossville, TN) have begun to use these K3S facilities. With prices from alternate sources 10% to 30% below regular cost, why pay more?

October 13th, 2008 -  JT Davenport (Sanford, NC) begins to use K3S Daily Replenishment for produce. Originally developed to handle the daily replenishment requirement for cigarette buying, Brian Sibbett has found the same requirements fit very nicely with his daily ordering of produce at JT Davenport. In fact, with the short shelf life issue in produce, he has found the K3S Daily Replenishment model works perfectly to bring in product just when its needed, to keep produce fresh for customers, and reduce spoilage.

October 1st, 2008 - K3S Wiki site now available for K3S R5 customers

What is a wiki? Wiki's are websites that a lot of companies or groups use to develop and host information on a product or organization. They allow many people to easily read, search through, and link to all of the content.

How is K3S using this to help its customers? K3S has had a 1,400 page user's guide (along with a 500 page technical guide) for many years. While it has been helpful to have that reference material, it has never been easy to navigate. K3S is using the power of Google and their search techniques to create a user friendly reference website to help users install and learn K3S-Replenish®. The Wiki will help current customers train new buyers as well as let more experienced buyers search for new techniques.

September 15th, 2008 - Kerr Drug the 1st to implement K3S R5 on their own. Congratulations to Kerr Drug www.kerrdrug.com who last month became the first company to implement K3S R5 using their own programming staff.

While most K3S customers have elected to use K3S programming services to convert over to K3S R5, there are several customers taking on this task themselves, using our PDF guide to reference.

We have provided the best estimate of 50 to 100 hours for a programmer to perform the necessary steps to complete the project.

Lewis Miller (programmer at Kerr Drug) confirmed that he spent about 80 to 85 hours on the project. Great job Lewis!

September 1st, 2008 - K3S would like to welcome Lyons Specialty (Port Allen, LA) as a new customer. Lyons Specialty "Where Service is King" services convenience stores, restaurants, supermarkets, drug stores, cafeterias and state run institutions across the entire state of Louisiana.

August 1st, 2008 - K3S would like to welcome Stewart Distribution (Waycross, GA) as a new customer. Stewart Distribution is a wholesale distributor for convenient stores and prisons, and has been servicing a wide variety of stores in Georgia and Florida since 1922.

July 15th, 2008 - K3S announces a beta version of its online buyer training courses for new buyers. Are you a K3S customer who would like to participate in the beta version of the new K3S online buyer training courses? For a User ID and Password contact training@k3s.com. The link to the K3S-Replenish® Training page is training.k3s.com.

June 18th, 2008 - DPS www.dpslink.com and K3S announce a Webcast scheduled for 11:00 AM Eastern on June 18th entittled "Pitfalls of Inventory Management."

For more information (abstract and registration) on the event, visit DPS home page www.dpslink.com and look for May and June Webcast Announced section.

June 1st, 2008 - K3S begins 19th year in business helping distributors and retailers in North America with advanced inventory replenishment solutions.

May 1st, 2008 - K3S Store Level enhanced for the C-Store environment to handle the Philip Morris ordering requirement by providing both Fire Safe and non-Fire Safe cigarettes in the 50% minimum tables.

April 21st, 2008 - K3S-Replenish® R5 (Release 5) for Purchasing goes live at Variety Wholesalers www.vwstores.com. They become the 3rd K3S customer to convert over to K3S R5 this year.

April 1st, 2008 - During the 1st quarter of 2008 both Coastal Wholesale www.coastalwholesale.com and JT Davenport www. jtdavenport.com became the first K3S customers to migrate over to the highly anticipated K3S- Replenish® R5 (Release 5) for Purchasing. Other K3S customers will transition over during 2008.

March 1st, 2008 - For customers using the K3S Store Level application in the C-Store environment, the system now handles the Philip Morris ordering requirement that affects some retailers.

Any C-store on our program coming up short on the 5 Marlboro packings compared to the previous week's order, will automatically receive the necessary cartons on the top seller in that store to stay in compliance with the program.

February 1st, 2008 - DPS and K3S form IBM Value Net Connection for the Hardgoods Industry.

We are excited to announce our new IBM Value Net Connection with DPS, Inc. with a focus on the Hardgoods Wholesale Industry.

DPS www.dpslink.com is an IBM Premier Business Partner who has been serving customers since 1972.

K3S and DPS have worked together on various projects and implementations for over a decade, and now through IBM's VN program we have found another way to reach more companies who may need our help.

January 15th, 2008 - Last year was a banner year at K3S. 2007 turned out to be our busiest helping more customers and growing the company.

• Closed more new business than any year since we opened in June of 1990
• Talked with more prospects (over 30) than we had for the past 7 years collectively!
• Attended several trade shows to meet additional prospects
• Hired additional technical assistance to support customers
• Invested in new IBM hardware and software
• Continued the investment to build K3S R5

January 1st, 2008 - 4 new enhancements are part of Release 4.41 dated January 1st, 2008 and shipped to all customers.

December 5th, 2007 - Kerr Drug plays host to the five K3S North Carolina customers who have gathered to learn how to migrate to the new K3S R5 (Release 5) application. IT Managers and programmers have attended this workshop and take back with them a CD and work book to get started.

November 1st, 2007 - K3S continues R&D for K3S R5 by attending the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo in San Francisco held October 8th - 11th ( http://www.zendcon.com/).

October 1st, 2007 - K3S orders the new IBM DB2 Web Query for System i  

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/db2/webquery

K3S will incorporate Web Query into the new K3S R5 (Release 5) available for customers in 2008.

September 1st, 2007 - K3S would like to welcome LP Shanks Company (Crossville, TN) as a new customer.

LP Shanks has been serving customers in Central and Eastern Tennessee, Southern Kentucky and Northern Georgia for three generations.

August 31st, 2007 - K3S begins development of 24/7 Web based video buyer training. The video training will be an integral part of K3S R5 (Release 5) available next year.

August 15th, 2007 – Ohio Valley Wholesale to begin implementation of K3S Store Level. Ohio Valley Wholesale became a K3S customer in December 2006 by installing K3S Purchasing to help their buyers. Now they will use K3S techniques to help their customers better replenish inventory at retail.

August 8th, 2007 – The five K3S customers in North Carolina will be in the first group of customers to install the new K3S R5 (Release 5) in 2008. This group includes Coastal Wholesale, JT Davenport & Sons, Kerr Drug, MR Williams and Variety Wholesalers.

July 1st, 2007 - 3 new enhancements are part of Release 4.40 dated July 1st, 2007 and shipped to all customers. This is the 9th year in a row of bi-annual updates from K3S, and all customers are kept current on the latest release.

June 1st, 2007 - K3S begins 18th year in business helping distributors and retailers in North America with advanced inventory replenishment solutions.

May 21st , 2007 - JT Davenport & Sons becomes the first K3S customer to install the next generation of K3S solutions, code named "R5" (Release 5). General availability is scheduled for 2008.

May 1st , 2007 - Bringing together the proven tools for advanced inventory management from the past, and integrating them with new technologies that run on the IBM iSeries platform are what drive the research team at K3S. K3S is now integrating the technologies of PHP, Java, AJAX and XML processing (to name a few) into its future offerings.

February 1, 2007 - K3S will be in Las Vegas on February 22nd and 23rd, 2007 to meet with several customers in the C-Store industry and collaborate on future application requirements.

December 31, 2006 - K3S closes 2006 with a surge of interest by retailers in

K3S Store Level Replenishment techniques.

December 1, 2006 - 8 new enhancements are part of Release 4.39 dated January 1st, 2007 and shipped to all customers. This is the 8th year in a row of bi-annual updates from K3S, and all customers are kept current on the latest release.

Novermber 24 , 2006 - K3S would like to welcome Ohio Valley Wholesale Distributors, Inc. (Grayson, KY) as a new customer. Ohio Valley Wholesale has been serving customers in Eastern Kentucky, Southern Ohio and Western West Virginia for over 45 years.

October 6, 2006 - The K3S Development Team has completed their first

Web Services project using XML documents. In the future, buyers will be able to track their purchase orders from suppliers at the push of a button, instead of a phone call.

September 18, 2006 - K3S would like to welcome Bartell Drugs (Seattle, WA) as a new customer. Bartell Drugs makes the 4th CDC (Chain Drug Consortium) customer to sign up with K3S in the past 2 years. The CDC is comprised of 10 regional drug chains doing over $5 Billion in annual retail volume in 900+ stores.

September 13, 2006 - King Harrison III has been elected to the AMCU/AIM Board for 2007. Learn more about AMCU/AIM at www.amcuatlanta.com.

September 1, 2006 - The CDC (Chain Drug Consortium) will hold its 4th APC (Annual Planning Conference) in Boston on September 14th - 16th. King Harrison III will speak to the members at the conference about K3S and inventory replenishment.

August 1, 2006 - K3S continues to enhance and improve the interface capabilities for K3S-Replenish® to fit the major ERP software packages on the market.

July 1, 2006 - 12 new enhancements are part of Release 4.38 dated July 1st, 2006. This is the 7th year in a row of bi-annual updates from K3S.

June 1, 2006 - K3S celebrates 16 years in business!

April 28, 2006 - IBM notifies K3S about meeting the requirements for the

'Advanced member level' of IBM PartnerWorld.

March 1, 2006 - Opening a 2nd location. With fuel costs continuing to rise, many single location distributors are examining the costs versus savings of opening a 2nd location to service existing customers.

K3S has developed tools that enable the buyer to view demand history as scaled down in the 1st location, and scaled up in the new 2nd location. For the buyers it appears they had always serviced their customers from both locations.

February 1, 2006 - For the 7th year in a row, K3S customers move forward with a new January release, followed six months later by a new July release of K3S-Replenish®.

In the latest K3S release dated January 1, 2006, all customers were successfully upgraded to the new software in the month of January.

January 1, 2006 - USA Drug www.usadrug.com becomes the most recent K3S customer to take advantage of the Ad Planning interface in K3S-Replenish®. Buyers review suggested orders that incorporate both turn requirements and future Ad Planning requirements combined.

December 1, 2005 - Core Mark International has operated a Third Party Logistics (3PL) facility for one of their major customers Circle K www.circlek.com in Phoenix, Arizona for the past few years.

In April 2005, Core Mark opened another 3PL facility, but this time for Valero Energy Corporation www.valero.com in San Antonio, TX.

For both 3PL facilities, Core Mark took no chance with the inventory management engine. They powered both 3PLs with K3S-Relenish®, the same proven solution that replenishes all Core Mark distribution centers in North America.

November 1, 2005 - K3S opens a new branch office along with hosting an

IBM eServer in Austin, TX. K3S now has locations in two of the three main power grids in the continental United States. In today's information technology model, where being up and running 24/7 is imperative, K3S will now have the capabilities to respond to your requirements if one of the three power grids is down.

November 1, 2005 - Core Mark International www.coremark.com has always taken K3S technology and put it to great use. They have done it again! They are now using the K3S Daily Replenishment model to daily replenish categories like milk, eggs, bread, fresh pastries and fresh sandwiches.

September 3, 2005 - K3S will be attending and exhibiting at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show in Las Vegas (Booth #7409) November 15th -18th.

August 1, 2005 - 15 enhancements have been developed for the next

K3S-Replenish® release scheduled for January 1st, 2006. Most of these enhancements are currently running at various K3S customer sites for final stress testing. Tim Perkins is working on the documentation for these new enhancements, and you will be able to read about them soon by down loading the K3S User's Guide.

July 13, 2005 - Every summer King Harrison III schedules a trip to Thetford Center, VT to discuss inventory management topics with Robert G. Brown. This year the visit included a session to describe a multi-location distribution network, and how the

K3S Hub Transfer System enables a distributor to tackle that environment. With ever increasing minimum order requirements being placed on distributors to purchase from suppliers, having a solid plan to use Distribution Centers (DC's) in the network to act as Hubs to supply other DC's is essential to maximizing profitability. Bob provided input on the subject from his fifty years of experience in this area.

June 15, 2005 - K3S attended and exhibited at the Southern Association of Wholesale Distributors Expo (SAWD) in Atlanta.

June 1, 2005 - On June 1st, 1990 K3S opened the door to help distributors with 'Smarter Buying.'

June 1, 2005 - Release 4.36 dated July 2005 ships early. This new release contains 13 enhancements.

May 31, 2005 - K3S would like to welcome Navarro Discount Pharmacies as a new customer.

April 22, 2005 - K3S announces a 'Smarter' Turns Report to be included in the July 2005 release of K3S-Replenish ®. This new report uses advanced techniques to determine on hand quantities and annual sales, providing management a truer picture of inventory turns and service level achievement.

March 30, 2005 - Three K3S customers 'go live' with the upcoming

Release 4.36 scheduled for general availability in July 2005.

One of the twelve enhancements in the new release will provide retail distributors the ability to simultaneously view 'scan data' from the 'point of sale' applications while analyzing warehouse shipment information.

February 1, 2005 - USA Drug made the decision to install K3S-Replenish® to help manage their inventory.

November 1, 2004 - This past month both Kerr Drug and Bauer Built took advantage of a facility in K3S called Period End Filtering (PE Filtering).

October 1, 2004 - On August 24th, Kerr Drug (Raleigh, NC) decided on K3S-Replenish ® as their advanced inventory solution. With teamwork between K3S and the Kerr Drug Information Technology department, Kerr Drug was able to be 100% live on October 1st. A 38 Day Implementation. Way to go Kerr Drug!

October 17th, 2004 - Have you hired a new buyer lately who needs K3S training? Is there an area of the K3S system where your buyers could use a refresher course? If the answer to any of the questions above is yes, then you may be interested in our "Right Start" assistance. We can provide "Right Start" assistance through a single one hour conference call session for very short topics, or provide a series of weekly conference call sessions followed by an on-site visit for those who require more assistance.

October 2nd, 1004 - Bracket Level Pricing. Currently in the K3S system you have the ability to enter up to nine Discount Level Brackets for a supplier. The system will help you reach the next bracket level by allocating inventory evenly in time supply. Not until now has the system provided a way to enter prices that will be effective when reaching that next bracket level. With this new enhancement you will be able to enter up to 9 levels of Bracket Level Pricing that correspond to your Supplier Discount Brackets.

September 1st, 2004 - Time to turn that around. There are only 12 (or 13) chances each year for a purchasing staff to perform the Period End Event. If you are not taking advantage of it, this could be costing your company thousands of dollars by making uneducated buying decisions.

August 1st, 2004 - Development is underway on the new enhanced database that will serve as the foundation for Release 5 of K3S-Replenish®. Just a few of the new capabilities that will exist in Release 5 are:

• More accurate Lead Time Forecasting when lead time values are single digits, like
• 5 days, 6 days, etc. (fractions will be captured).
• Ability to develop and store Seasonal Profile ID’s at the Supplier level.
• Selected Products Review Batches to provide product sequencing by ‘importance’ (most important products appear first).

July 30th, 2004 - Visit to Parts Central (auto parts) in Macon, GA. One of the topics discussed is a new feature for Release 5 that will help forecasting for slow moving products. Quarterly forecasting is an area that shows promise for several of our K3S customers who currently have monthly history that looks similar to the values of 0.0.1.0.0.2.0.0.1.0.0.3.0.0.1. Quarterly those values would appear as 1,2,1,3,1 to the forecast engine and improve forecast accuracy.

July 14th, 2004 - Roundtable discussion about K3S Daily Replenishment with Robert G. Brown (inventor of exponential smoothing) in Thetford Center, VT and K3S customers. Core Mark International, JT Davenport & Sons and Coastal Wholesale were participants.

July 1st, 2004 - Release 4.34 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers. Information about the new release features can be found in the K3S User’s Guide in Appendix G.4.

June 1st, 2004 - King III Solutions celebrates 14 years in business!

March 2004 - This year the annual visit to see Robert G. Brown will include a roundtable discussion on various inventory management topics. The K3S/RGB session will start with a review of the proper tools required for a buyer in the “daily replenishment environment”. Other topics will be defined by five K3S customers attending the July 2004 meeting.

January 2nd, 2004 - Release 4.33 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers. Information about the new release features can be found in the K3S User’s Guide in Appendix G.4.

November 1st, 2003 - K3S announces new purchasing tools to help customers that need to analyze a group of products to identify seasonal characteristics. Example: Look at all the suntan lotions to establish a predictable summer pattern, and then assign that summarized pattern to the entire group of products.

October 1st, 2003 - K3S announces new purchasing tools that will be included in the next release (scheduled for January 2004) to help customers that require daily replenishment capabilities. Four K3S customers (C-Store Distributors) have partnered with K3S to develop this new logic, and have been using the new tools to replenish their cigarette category during the past six months. And the results? Triple digit turns!

July 1st, 2003 - Release 4.32 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers. Information about the 18 new features can be found in the K3S User’s Guide in Appendix G.3

June 18th, 2003 - King III travels to see Robert G. Brown in Thetford Center, VT for the annual K3S/RGB visit. This year's discussion topics included "the pitfalls of daily replenishment” and “handling severe seasonality at retail". King and Bob first met in June 1993 at the International Institute of Forecasters conference in Pittsburgh, PA.

June 1st, 2003 - King III Solutions celebrates 13 years in business!

March 2003 - Four K3S customers are working closely with the R & D department to help test the new advanced daily replenishment capabilities. Buyers can describe by day of the week the percent of sales for each day. For example, Monday accounts for 50% of the weekly sales, Tuesday accounts for 40% of the weekly sales, with the remaining sales on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

January 3rd, 2003 - Release 4.31 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers. Information about the new release features can be found in the K3S User’s Guide in Appendix G.2

November 2002 - New capability for K3S-TRACS in pilot mode at JT Davenport www.jtdavenport.com for weekly automated email sent to C-Store chains with information about their retail inventory position. These reports are sent as PDF files to the person in charge at corporate.

September 2002 - Liberty USA www.liberty-usa.com becomes the third K3S customer (C-Store Distributor) to license 3S-TRACS. This solution is used by distributors to manage the tobacco category in the convenience store.

July 2002 - New K3S customer Bauer Built, Inc. www.bauerbuilt.com in Durand, Wisconsin is one of the largest distributors of tires, batteries, and automobile and truck accessories in the country. This implementation of K3S-Replenish® will be to a JD Edwards® system www.jdedwards.com

June 28th, 2002 - K3S generates the new Release 4.30 of K3S-Replenish® which includes 17 enhancements. This is the largest release in over 3 years (K3S provides a new release every six months).

June 18th, 2002 - New K3S customer M.R.Williams, Inc. www.mrwilliams.com in Henderson, North Carolina becomes the th K3S customer in that state.

June 12th, 2002 - King III and King IV visit Robert G. Brown in Thetford Center, VT for the annual K3S/RGB visit. This year's discussion topic is the K3S "Period End Event".

June 1st, 2002 - King III Solutions celebrates 12 years in business!

April 2002 - New K3S customer Empire Beef Company, Inc. www.empirebeef.com breaks our record for the fastest implementation and training of the K3S-Replenish® system in the past six years. President Steven H. Levin gives the green light at the end of March, and 30 days later the first live purchase order is approved by the buyers.

March 2002 - K3S-Replenish® documentation now available as a download in Adobe® PDF format. An updated version is posted every Friday afternoon. Look under the Links section.

February 2002 - K3S customer Dunlap Sales, Inc. www.dunlapsales.com uses K3S-Replenish® to help manage the industrial sewing machine inventory in Latin America.

January 3rd, 2002 - Release 4.29 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers.

January 2002 - The January 2002 issue of Convenience Store Decisions runs an article about the successful use of K3S-TRACS by J.T. Davenport and Li’l Cricket Stores to manage the tobacco inventory. See article at www.jtdavenport.com

September 2001 - New K3S customer Liberty USA www.liberty-usa.com purchases an IBM iSeries® computer to run K3S-Replenish® software. K3S now provides an interface between Microsoft NT Server® environments and the IBM iSeries® environments.

August 2001 - Tim Perkins timperkins@k3s.com joins K3S with responsibility to convert all K3S documentation to PDF files for internet download capability.

July 2001 - King Harrison III makes annual visit to Thetford Center, Vermont, to visit with Robert G. Brown. This year’s topic is advanced store level replenishment concepts.

June 2001 - K3S-TRACS is announced at the Southern Association of Wholesale Distributors conference in Atlanta. K3S-TRACS enables convenience stores distributors to manage the tobacco inventory at retail.

June 2001 - King III Solutions celebrates 11 years in business!

June 2001 - King III Solutions is a Gold Sponsor for the International Symposium on Forecasting held June 17th - 20th at Callaway Gardens. ISF2001 hosted by Georgia Tech.

May 30th, 2001 - Release 4.28 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers.

May 2001 - Roses Discount Stores reduces inventory using the K3S-Replenish® system. President Ed Anderson states, “We have been able to maintain the same service level required to run our operation out of the Henderson Distribution Center and we have reduced our DC inventory by 40%!”

April 2001 - K3S customer Dimmick All Pro www.dimmickallpro.com drives the K3S-Replenish® software to manage their auto parts inventory.

February 2001 - New "watchdog" technology incorporated into K3S-Replenish®. This capability provides K3S customers an effective way to have important information brought to the attention of the person in charge. Examples: A contract will expire in 30 days, or a top selling product just sold out.

January 15, 2001 - Release 4.27 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers.

December 2000 - K3S-Replenish® now live with retail store level replenishment. JT Davenport & Sons is a convenience store distributor in Sanford, North Carolina and is the first K3S customer to utilize the power in K3S-Replenish® for store level processing.

September 2000 - K3S is officially accepted into IBM's Partner World for Developers. Membership into this group will provide offerings and services that will help to keep K3S-Replenish® on the leading edge of technology in the future.

August 2000 - K3S successfully sends out K3S-Replenish® programs to a customer via the Internet.

July 2000 - Two K3S customers fund the research and development of store level replenishment using K3S-Replenish®.

June 2000 - King III Solutions celebrates 10 years in business!

April 2000 - K3S announces the capability of multi-level H2H (Hub-to-Hub) transfer orders. This new function will allow retailers/distributors with multiple locations, the ability to purchase product from suppliers into one location, that can then act as the source for smaller divisions.

January 2000 - K3S announces the capability of automated replenishment into K3S-Replenish®. This will allow purchase orders to automatically placed with suppliers without human intervention.

January 18, 2000 - Release 4.25 of K3S-Replenish® is shipped to all K3S customers.

June 1999 - K3S does away with tapes! Now K3S-Replenish® is conveniently sent to prospects and customers using CD's.
August 1998 - K3S and JT Davenport & Sons partner together to build a Purchase Order System to work with K3S-Replenish®.

July 1998 - Professors at Georgia Tech contact K3S about participation and possible involvement in a future forecasting conference for the year 2001. The International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) for the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) is held in the United States every other year.