Supermarket Giant AlfaBeta Vassilopoulos Improves Supplier Quality Management with Sparta Systems' TrackWise


HOLMDEL, New Jersey, January 22 /PRNewswire/ --

Sparta Systems, Inc. (Sparta), the maker of TrackWise(R), and the market
leader in enterprise quality and compliance management software, announced
today that AlfaBeta, the second largest food retailer in Greece, deployed
TrackWise as its Quality Management System of record to improve overall
customer service and supplier quality while reducing the complexity of its
manufacturing process.

With over 135 supermarkets under the AlfaBeta banner, the grocery chain's
principal activities are the production, distribution and sale of
high-quality packaged and non-packaged foods. The company needed a Quality
Management Solution to reduce manufacturing process complexity, ensure
supplier quality, track customer complaints and facilitate the full lifecycle
management of audits.

"We are pleased that AlfaBeta is using our software to streamline their
key operational initiatives," said Ran J. Flam, President and CEO at Sparta
Systems. "Our patented QMS software provides a 24/7 business rules engine
that delivers a centralized, Web-based system for managing, tracking and
reporting all issues and actions. Its workflow engine enforces process steps
and ensures issues, events and actions are assigned to appropriate parties
for resolution."

TrackWise provides best practices with the flexibility to meet customer's
unique needs, delivering capabilities to manage all issues, actions and
changes in an integrated system. Automated workflow and configurable business
rules ensure processes are followed, while TrackWise streamlines the
complaint-handling process and reduces the lifecycle from submission to
resolution.

"We are pleased with the Quality Management System TrackWise delivers,
ensuring internal assessments and auditing of critical processes," said
Dennis Dionissopoulos, Quality Management Director at AlfaBeta. "We are able
to identify gaps and risks, and improve the quality and control of our
products, stores, warehouses and suppliers across the country."

About Sparta Systems

Sparta Systems, Inc. is the industry leader for global quality and
compliance management systems. Its TrackWise product is a web-based
enterprise software application used by quality, manufacturing, regulatory
affairs, and business professionals to manage quality, compliance issues, and
action items across the enterprise. The company has more than 12 years of
experience and an extensive customer base in a wide range of highly regulated
industries. Sparta Systems offers its customers a complete solution for
global quality management needs, including the onsite support required
throughout the project lifecycle. More information about Sparta Systems and
TrackWise can be found at http://www.sparta-systems.com.

About AlfaBeta Vassilopoulos

AlfaBeta is, since the acquisition of Trofo in 2001, the second largest
food retailer in Greece. AlfaBeta focuses on customers looking for
competitive pricing as well as high quality products and services. In 1992,
Delhaize Group acquired control of AlfaBeta Vassilopoulos. It currently owns
61.3% of AlfaBeta. The Greek operating company of Delhaize Group had 7,800
employees as of December 31, 2006, and was operating 148 stores.

PR Contact:
    Jon Rabinowitz
    Director of Marketing
    Sparta Systems, Inc.
    Tel: +1-732-203-0400 x121
    jon.rabinowitz@sparta-systems.com



Web site: http://www.sparta-systems.com

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