PRONTO North America Users Conference to Feature Keynote Address: Peggy Smedley

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 18, 2005 -- Peggy Smedley is the editor of Start Magazine and will be addressing the first annual PRONTO North America Users Conference on Thursday, May 5th. Smedley was recently profiled in the Wall Street Journal and authored Mending Manufacturing, How America Can Manufacture its Survival. She is an award-winning journalist.

Wednesday, May 4th, Thomas R. Cutler, CEO of TR Cutler, Inc., author of the Manufacturers Public Relations and Media Guide, Associate Editor of Industrial Connection, and Contributing Editor to InMFG magazine will be addressing the PRONTO North America Users Conference. Cutler is also the founder of the Manufacturing Media Consortium, a group of 2000 journalists writing about various aspects of manufacturing and industrial trends.

PRONTO North America, (www.prontoerp.com) based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is the North American Master Distributor of PRONTO-Xi, a comprehensive software system allowing manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to effectively manage all phases of the supply chain. Far beyond just another Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System, PRONTO-Xi�s financial and distribution applications are unique and have provided maximum return on investment for a wide variety of organizations since 1976. From PRONTO Planning to PRONTO Production; from PRONTO Forecasting Management to PRONTO Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP); from PRONTO Advanced Warehousing to PRONTO Quality Management System (QMS), the cross-section and breadth of integrated elements addressed by PRONTO-Xi is unmatched in the marketplace and justifies the company�s natural leadership role as the best fully integrated business software solution for more than a quarter century. PRONTO North America is quickly emerging as the distribution sector ERP leader.

Tom Verzi
PRONTO ERP
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