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.

August 1st, 2007 - King Harrison III will participate in the TurningPoint Systems 2007 User Conference from October 22nd through October 24th in Danvers, MA www.turningpointsystems.com/user-conference-info.htm

King will execute the "Buying Game" to help educate attendees on the need for smarter buying solutions.

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.

April 1st , 2007 - K3S and TurningPoint Systems will attend the SAWD (Southern Association of Wholesale Distriubtors) Conference in North Charleston, SC June 6th - 9th.

February 22, 2007 - K3S and TurningPoint Systems www.turningpointsystems.com form an alliance to jointly market, sell and install K3S solutions to the C-Store industry.

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.