World’s Largest Denim Producer Chooses Impact:ECS

7 August 2002
Atlanta, Georgia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

3C Software, provider of the enterprise cost system Impact:ECS, announced a software license, maintenance, and professional services agreement with Cone Mills Corporation. The textile producer will implement the costing system at its White Oak and Rutherford County denim facilities to model standard product costs, develop budgets and analyze “what-if” scenarios.

Cone Mills, headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, is the largest producer of denim with a range of clients from Polo and Banana Republic to Levi Strauss & Company. With a growing need to identify a single cost management solution, the manufacturer decided to choose Impact:ECS’ flexible architecture and robust analytical tools for the job. The comprehensive licensing and consulting engagement will provide Cone Mills with ways to model each production process within the mill to calculate inventory values for works-in-process and finished goods. Impact:ECS will also allow Cone Mills to analyze scenarios to manage future raw materials costs and production schedules. 3C Software’s professional services team, with expertise in textile production and cost accounting, works directly with the clients’ cost accounting and production teams to provide the appropriate cost management tools.

About 3C Software
3C Software, developers of Impact:ECS™ and Impact:3C®, was founded in 1989 and is a leader in detailed cost management systems for process manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, 3C Software serves clients in several manufacturing industries including automotive, textile and apparel, pulp and paper, semiconductor, chemical and rubber, and food and beverage. 3C Software’s rapidly implemented solutions work with all accounting methods, are simple to maintain, and handle unlimited calculations and variables. For more information about 3C Software, visit www.3csoftware.com or call 800-226-2036.