BlackHawk Industrial Selects Epicor Wholesale Distribution ERP

The Epicor solution will provide BlackHawkIndustrial with a scalable business management system for 420 users initially, incorporating a Microsoft Windows-based platform and SQL Server database to improve warehouse, order and inventory management; purchasing automation; financial management; and reporting and business intelligence analysis.

Epicor Software Corporation, a global leader in business software solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organizations, today announced that BlackHawkIndustrialDistribution Inc. of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, has selected the Epicor® Prophet 21® wholesale distribution enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to increase business efficiency and streamline processes for overall performance.

BlackHawkIndustrial is a recently formed industrial distributor that is rapidly growing in the industrial marketplace. The company is currently implementing a very active buy-and-build strategy in the highly fragmented, $400 billion industrial distribution industry. In the past two years, BlackHawk has jumped to #33 on Industrial Distribution magazine's "Big 50 List." To date, BlackHawk has acquired eight industrial distributors (including Duncan Industrial, Tool Service, Kendeco and several others that are currently Epicor customers), and has been actively involved in leading industry organizations such as Affiliated Distributors (AD) and Industrial Supply Association (ISA).

The Epicor solution will provide BlackHawkIndustrial with a scalable business management system for 420 users initially, incorporating a Microsoft Windows®-based platform and SQL Server® database to improve warehouse, order and inventory management; purchasing automation; financial management; and reporting and business intelligence analysis.

"We believe that the implementation of the Epicor platform will contribute to our strategy of creating an extremely flexible but customer-focused industrial distributor," said Bill Scheller, CEO of BlackHawkIndustrial. "The decision to select the Epicor Prophet 21 solution was driven by BlackHawkIndustrial's rapid growth, which demands an effective and fully integrated software platform to act as our business system's foundation. We believe that the industrial distribution industry has over 100,000 independent distributors, with the majority of these companies being small, regionally focused, family-owned, or owner-operated businesses. We see a tremendous opportunity to use our Epicor system to build a business of scale that is 'big enough to serve' yet is 'small enough to care.'"

"With 400+ users to begin with, BlackHawk is already a substantial installation of Epicor Prophet 21," said Kevin Roach, executive vice president and general manager, ERP Americas for Epicor. "We look forward to growing with them as they continue to set the standard for technical service and customer care across the industry and with organizations such as AD and ISA."

AD is a dynamic community of 500+ independent distributors and manufacturers of construction and industrial products with collective annual sales in excess of $23 billion. Functioning like a cooperative, AD leverages collective economics of scale to make collaborative investments in people, programs and technology that drive growth, reduce costs and foster long-term marketing partnerships. ISA is the top trade association for the maintenance, repair, operations and production (MROP) supply channel, committed to bringing channel partners together and fostering an environment that allows for a free flow of communication to better understand the needs of the manufacturer, distributor, industrial manufacturers representative and service provider. AD and ISA include hundreds of current Epicor customers, with approximately 40 percent of AD members and 60 percent of ISA members using Epicor distribution software solutions.

About Epicor Software Corporation
Epicor Software Corporation is a global leader delivering inspired business software solutions to the manufacturing, distribution, retail and services industries. With over 40 years of experience serving small, midmarket and larger enterprises, Epicor has more than 20,000 customers in over 150 countries. Epicor enterprise resource planning (ERP), retail management software, supply chain management (SCM), and human capital management (HCM) enable companies to drive increased efficiency and improve profitability. With a history of innovation, industry expertise and passion for excellence, Epicor provides the single point of accountability that local, regional and global businesses demand. The Company's headquarters are located in Dublin, California, with offices and affiliates worldwide. For more information, visit www.epicor.com.

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