EIC Software

Y2K is not a marketing tactic - be prepared

The year 2000 is rapidly approaching. To many, this is a cause for celebration, an exciting time of wonder and curiosity. Yet, to those of us who rely upon software to run our distribution businesses, the year 2000 lurks in our future as impending chaos and lost profits.

Foodservice Complete was built from the ground up to be Y2K compliant. In other words, we have not adapted our program or added changes which we hope will hold as the clock strikes midnight. Rather, we have designed our software specifically to confront the Y2K issue head on.

Early Y2K issues...

In early 1999, some of our current customers entered requests into their old computer systems for reports. With the date in 1999, the systems 'hung up', not capable of processing the request. When another company's fiscal 2000 year started on July 1, 1999, no invoice inputted after June 30, 1999 would print . Extraordinary administrative steps and significant expenditures of time soon followed. These companies now operate productively on Foodservice Complete.

These illustrate real Y2K issues. We expect tens of thousands of companies will have similar problems until the Y2K issue is behind us. The skills necessary to handle such problems lie in the talented and capable hands of EIC personnel.