Released on: August 27, 2008, 4:55 pm

Press Release Author: Thomas R. Cutler

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Nowacki's Explains TraceGains' Positively Assured
Traceability

Press Release Body: TraceGains, Inc. (www.tracegains.com) was founded in 1998 with a
100% focus on traceability. The company has a patented delivery system -14 patents
granted and growing -and also is an Issuer of United States Department of
Agriculture Process Verification Program (PVP) Label.

By providing real-time bi-directional supply chain transparency and traceability,
TraceGains reduces risks to the corporation and its executives, who may become
personally liable in case of a recall. Positively Assured Traceability provides the
following essential capabilities:
. Continuous attribute visibility for each incoming ingredient received.
. Identity preservation across commingling, batching, blending, transformation, and
re-work.
. Continuous comparison between on-floor activities, business rules, and compliancy
requirements.


Gary Nowacki is the CEO of TraceGains. Gary joined TraceGains in January 2008 after
spending the prior 13 years in a variety of software industry executive positions in
the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Supply Chain Management, and Quality space
for Food & Beverage and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). Prior to that, Nowacki held
management and individual contributor positions in programming, implementation
services, and sales in the ERP software business.

In prior positions, Nowacki was instrumental in significantly growing revenue and
market penetration in the Food & Beverage and CPG industry for leading edge systems
that helped companies protect their brands, reduce costs, and grow sales and
profits.

TraceGains is a 9-year old company that delivers Positively Assured Traceability to
food growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, and retail companies to help them
secure their supply chain to help protect their brands.

"As our TraceGains name implies, our mission is to protect companies, their brands,
and consumers through better traceability while at the same time leveraging
additional data to increase profits. With demonstrated return on investment of
300%, the TraceGains system can pay for itself," says Nowacki.

Nowacki's prior work experience includes serving in senior management at CDC
Software - Ross Systems, a leading ERP supplier to the Food industry. He has a
bachelor's degree from Lawrence University and has been active throughout his career
in a wide variety of industry associations and has written and spoken on a variety
of supply chain and operations topics throughout his career.


However, TraceGains not only adds the missing capabilities to protect food
companies, its officers and executives, and consumers, but goes beyond to turn data
into actionable business intelligence from the floor to the board room.

With proven solutions and hundreds of implementations, return on investment (ROI)
and profitability enhancement has been independently confirmed in university
studies. Companies' bottom lines are positively affected through the following
results:
. Improved operational efficiency by identifying profit leakages.
. Enhanced product consistency by pinpointing causes of variation.
. Increasing market share by assuring trading partners they are protected with
actionable data.

By using Web Services to interconnect with all leading ERP, SCM, and MES systems,
Positively Assured Traceability can deliver compliance with internal business rules,
assurance of pedigree claims, enhanced profitability, and increased operational
excellence. From the grower, aggregator, manufacturer and processor, to distribution
and logistics, and finally the retailer, only TraceGains provides bi-directional
unit-level (item, carton, pallet, etc.) traceability while boosting profitability
and cost-effectively improving operational excellence.


TraceGains Inc.
www.tracegains.com
Marc Simony, Director of Marketing
traceability@tracegains.com
(303)682-9898


Web Site: http://www.tracegains.com

Contact Details: TraceGains Inc.
1860 Lefthand Circle, Suite G
Longmont, CO 80501
(303)682-9898