FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

YOUNG BROTHERS, LTD. SELECTS DOC-LINK™ INTEGRATED WITH E BY EPICOR ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE TO STREAMLINE PAYABLES PROCESSING

Laguna Hills, Calif., June 29, 2004 - Altec, a leading provider of document imaging and workflow management solutions for mid-market, announced today that Young Brothers, Ltd. selected doc-link integrated document management to streamline payables processing. Young Brothers, Ltd. was founded in 1900 and has become Hawaii 's leading inter-island freight handling and transportation company. Young Brothers, Ltd. is committed to providing high quality service throughout the Hawaiian Islands and is headquartered in Oahu , Hawaii . Young Brothers, Ltd. became incorporated in 1913, and later formed their sister company, Hawaiian Tug and Barge. Together, they operate a full fleet with ten barges and thirteen tugs. In 1999, SaltChuk Resources, Inc. in Seattle , Washington acquired Young Brothers, Ltd. and certain assets of Hawaiian Tug and Barge from Hawaiian Electric Industries.

Young Brothers, Ltd. originally selected doc-link integrated document management to streamline payables processing. With over thirty remote approvers, the time and costs spent manually moving vendor invoices back and forth were excessive. As a result, Young Brothers, Ltd. desired to streamline their invoice approval process with a solution that could demonstrate a strong return on investment. Doc-link provides Young Brothers, Ltd. with seamless integration into their financial accounting package, Epicor Enterprise 7.2. Doc-link's image repository eliminates the storage cost of paper, the hard cost of paper, and the time wasted with physical paper handling is also eliminated. Doc-link also provides better accounting controls and efficiencies using workflow, eliminates the time spent reconciling supporting documents, and they will soon expand the implementation of doc-link into other departments. Young Brothers, Ltd. will experience a return on investment in less than nine months as a result of doc-link and its functionality.

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Altec is the leader in accounting centric document imaging and workflow management software solutions. Altec enables organizations to unleash the power of their accounting package and enhance productivity and communication among its customers, employees and vendors. Offering a variety of products from customizable paper based documents, to enterprise wide electronic document management, MICR check printing solutions, Print to Mail, Pressure Seal, promotional items and more, Altec can provide you with any business need you may have. Altec is headquartered in Laguna Hills , California with an office in Tacoma , Washington and affiliates nation wide. For more information about Altec, their products, or services, please visit the company's website at
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