FSP Selects Cardiff To Manage Forms For National School Lunch Program.

Business Editors

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004

- Process automation and improved data accuracy means better

allocation of food for students, less burden on teachers and

administrators, and a more cost-effective operation for

schools -

Cardiff Software Inc., a leading global provider of document capture and eForm solutions for the enterprise, today announced that FSP, a not-for-profit corporation serving nutritious meals to community-schools, has selected Cardiff TELEform(R) to automate its data and document capture processes. FSP is a large participant in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and receives cash subsidies and donated commodities from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a percentage of the meals it serves. In return, it must serve lunches that meet Federal requirements and offer free or reduced price lunches to eligible children.

In order to meet the regulations and guidelines of the National School Lunch Program, FSP is required to meet Federal nutrition requirements and recommended Dietary Guidelines, ensuring that the proper components of a healthy meal are served to the student through strict reporting and calculations at the point of service. To maximize efficiencies, FSP selected Cardiff TELEform to automate the meal ordering process for 21,000 unique meal order forms received per month. By implementing an automated solution, FSP can now manage a seamless transaction from the student's order to meal delivery to reporting, reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving service levels. With the automated system, teachers will no longer be required to administer the program, therefore ensuring a better lunch for the kids.

"We pride ourselves on providing fresh meals instead of frozen meals to the students we serve," said Kelly Lothian, FSP Account Manager. "In order to meet the National School Lunch Program guidelines and ensure fresh food is delivered to the students in a timely, efficient manner, we selected TELEform to automate our processes. We now have streamlined information management across our organization and out to the students, ensuring accurate inventory, lower food costs and the elimination of waste."

The TELEform solution seamlessly integrates with FSP's IBM AS400 custom database to automatically capture, process and verify student data from multiple paper and digital sources. For example, the integration of the two systems will allow data from student meal forms to be transferred directly into the order tabulation program. Data from the student database will be used to pre-populate forms with a student's profile information, first name, due date, meal price, and other required information. The automation of the meal order process will eliminate manual data entry and verification requirements, allowing the organization to increase employee productivity, lower data entry costs and improve the quality of their data.

"Organizations like FSP, tasked with tracking hundreds of forms with no room for error, are increasingly turning to our eForm automation solutions," said Mark Seamans, CTO of Cardiff Software. "Because Cardiff enables organizations to automatically populate data in forms from integrated databases, organizations leveraging TELEform realize increased accuracy and efficiency in the form management process."

About FSP

FSP was founded in 1970 to provide affordable, convenient meals to Catholic school children in the Chicago area. Since then FSP has expanded its boundaries in both service and geographic range. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are offered to more than 330 parochial and public elementary through high schools in northern Illinois, northwest Indiana, and southern Wisconsin. FSP furnishes over 70,000 "kid tested, kid approved" meals each day through pre-plated satellite and on-site programs. Additional services include catering, vending, and nutrition education. For more information, visit the website at www.fspro.com.

About Cardiff Software, Inc.

Put Information to Work - Cardiff Software (www.cardiff.com) is a leading provider of document and form-driven business process-automation solutions for Global 2000 organizations. The Cardiff family of integrated software products empowers organizations to automate existing business processes using technology to capture, process and respond to strategic business information, thereby improving employee productivity, customer service and profitability. In business since 1991, Cardiff has a global distribution network reaching every continent and more than 20,000 customers worldwide spanning every industry.

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